CH-0035 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Prince Edward Island slavery legislation
Saint John’s Island passed legislation defining the legal parameters of enslavement, part of a wider history of slavery in British North America.
Not publication-ready.
- Historical place
- Saint John’s Island / Prince Edward Island
- Present-day context
- Saint John’s Island / Prince Edward Island — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Enslaved Africans, Colonial authorities
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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Enslavement of African people in Canada
Parks Canada · institutional history · Review: search excerpt
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.