Charles alexander moffat biography of alberta
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Up the Gatineau! Article
This article was first published in Up the Gatineau!Volume 1.
The Pink and Moffatt Families of Hull, 1822-1938
Bruce Elliott
In the “Quebec Gazette" of Monday, July 8, 1822, notice was given that the brig “Alexander of Whitehaven" out of Belfast had arrived at the port of Quebec with 141 settlers aboard. Here began the Canadian history of two prominent pioneer families.
Among those who disembarked from the “Alexander” that summer day were three brothers — James, Charles, and Samuel Pink, their sister, Isabella Moffatt, her husband Alexander, and three young children, Timothy Moffatt, age five, Jane, four, and Alexander Junior, age two.
On May 10th they had left their homes in Ireland and set sail for the New World aboard the “Alexander”, of which Alex. Moffatt was first mate. The long voyage had been beset by terrible disease, a common occurrence in those days of wooden vessels and overcrowded conditions. Although the sight of corpses being burie
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