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Books
Beck, Boyde. Prince Edward Island: An Unauthorized History. Charlottetown: Acorn Press, 1996. 
Bittermann, Rusty. Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Bittermann, Rusty and Margaret McCallum. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island: Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008.
Bond, Beverly. The Quit-Rent System in the American Colonies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919.
Bumsted, J.M. The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Bumsted, J.M. Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987.
Bumsted, J.M. The People's Clearance 1770-1815. Edinburgh and Winnipeg: University of Edinburgh Press, 1982.
Callbeck, Lorne. The Cradle of Confederation: A Brief History of Prince Edward Island from its Discovery in 1534 to the Present Time. Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1964.
Clark, Andrew Hill. Three Centuries and the Island: A Historical Geography of Settlement and Agriculture in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959.
Conrad, Margaret R. and James K. Hiller. The Atlantic Provinces: A Concise History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Jones, Orlo and Doris Haslam. An Island Refuge: Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of Saint John. Charlottetown: Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada, 1983.
MacNutt, W.S. The Atlantic Provinces: The Emergence of a Colonial Society 1712-1857. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965.
Sharpe, Errol. A People's History of Prince Edward Island. Toronto: Steel Rail Publishing, 1975.
Taylor, Martin Brook. Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-Century English Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
St. Andrews Society of Prince Edward Island. The Arrival of the First Scottish Catholic Emigrants in Prince Edward Island and After: Memorial Volume, 1772-1922. Summerside, Prince Edward Island: The Journal Publishing Co. Ltd., 1922.
Articles
Bittermann, Rusty. "Lady Landlords and the Final Defence of Landlordism on Prince Edward Island: The Case of Charlotte Sulivan." Histoire Sociale/Social History, 38(76) (November 2005): 203-233.
Bittermann, Rusty. "Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island in Transatlantic Context: From the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War to the 1840s." In Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context, ed. James C. Scott and Thomas Summerhill, pp. 21-54. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004.
Bittermann, Rusty. "Women and the Escheat Movement: The Politics of Everyday Life on Prince Edward Island." In Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th Century Maritimes, ed. Suzanne Morton and Janet Guildford, pp. 23-38. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1994.
Bittermann, Rusty and Margaret McCallum. "Upholding the Land Legislation of a 'Communistic and Socalist Assembly': The Benefits of Confederation for Prince Edward Island." Canadian Historical Review, 87(1) (March 2006): 1-28.
Bittermann, Rusty and Margaret McCallum. "When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s." In Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies, ed. John McLaren, A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright, pp. 144-168. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005.
Bolger, Francis W. "Long Courted, Won at Last." In Canada's Smallest Province: A History of P.E.I., ed. Francis W. Bolger, pp. 207-231. Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island 1973 Centennial Commission, 1973.
Bolger, Francis W. "The Beginnings of Independence, 1767-1787." In Canada's Smallest Province: A History of P.E.I., ed. Francis W. Bolger, pp. 37-65. Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island 1973 Centennial Commission, 1973.
Bolger, Francis W. "The Demise of Quit Rents and Escheat, 1824-1842." In Canada's Smallest Province: A History of P.E.I., ed. Francis W. Bolger, pp. 95-114. Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island 1973 Centennial Commission, 1973.
Bolger, Francis W. "Land and Politics, 1787-1824." In Canada's Smallest Province: A History of P.E.I., ed. Francis W. Bolger, pp. 66-94. Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island 1973 Centennial Commission, 1973.
Boyde, Beck. "The Fairest Land: Prince Edward Island in Its Descriptive Literature." The Island Magazine, 23 (Spring/Summer 1988): 19-26.
Boylan, Douglas. "Rule Britannia." In Canada's Smallest Province: A History of P.E.I., ed. Francis W. Bolger, pp. 33-36. Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island 1973 Centennial Commission, 1973.
Bumsted, J.M. "1763-1783: Resettlement and Rebellion." In The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History, ed. Phillip A. Buckner and John G. Reid, pp. 156-183. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Bumsted, J.M. "British Colonial Policy and the Island of St. John, 1763-1767." Acadiensis, IX(1) (Autumn/automne 1979): 3-18.
Bumsted, J.M. "Captain John MacDonald and the Island." Island Magazine, 6 (Spring/Summer 1979): 15-20.
Bumsted, J.M. "The Land Question of Prince Edward Island and the Quitrent Controversy of 1802-1806." Acadiensis, XXIX(2) (Spring/printemps 2000): 3-26.
Bumsted, J.M. "The Origins of the Land Question on Prince Edward Island, 1767-1805." Acadiensis, XI(1) (Autumn/automne 1981): 3-22.
Bumsted, J.M. "The Patterson Regime and the Impact of the American Revolution on the Island of St. John, 1775-1786." Acadiensis, XIII(1) (Autumn/automne 1983): 47-67.
Bumsted, J.M. "Scottish Emigration to the Maritimes, 1770-1815: A New Look at an Old Theme." Acadiensis, X(2) (Spring/printemps 1981): 65-85.
Bumsted, J.M. "Highland Emigration to the Island of St. John and the Scottish Catholic Church, 1769-1774." Dalhousie Review, 54 (1978): 511-527.
Bumsted, J.M. "The Loyalist Question on Prince Edward Island, 1783-1861." The Island Magazine, 25 (Spring/Summer 1989): 20-28.
Bumsted, J.M. "'The Only Island There is': The Writing of Island History." In The Garden Transformed: Prince Edward Island, 1945-1982, ed. V. Smitheram, D. Milne and S. Dasgupta, pp. 11-38. Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1982.
Bumsted, J.M. "Sir James Montgomery and Prince Edward Island, 1767-1803." Acadiensis, VII(2) (Spring/printemps 1978): 76-102.
Campbell, A.P. "The Heritage of the Highland Scot in Prince Edward Island." Island Magazine, 15 (Spring/Summer 1984): 3-8.
Hatvany, Matthew G. "Tenant, Landlord and Historian: A Thematic Review of the 'Polarization' Process in the writing of 19th-century Prince Edward Island History." Acadiensis, XXVII(1) (Autumn/automne 1997): 109-132.
Hatvany, Matthew G. "The Proprietary Burden." The Island Magazine, 44 (Fall/Winter 1998): 2-7.
Lawson, James P. "Passengers on the Alexander." The Island Magazine, 29 (Spring/Summer 1991): 34-39.
MacDonald, Allan F. "Captain John MacDonald, 'Glenalladale'." Canadian Catholic Historical Association Annual Report, 31 (1964): 21-37.
Hitsman, J. MacKay. "Military Defenders of Prince Edward Island, 1775-1864." Canadian Historical Association Annual Report (1964): 25-36.
MacNutt, W.S. "Fanning's Regime on Prince Edward Island." Acadiensis, I(1) (Autumn/automne 1971): 37-53.
Robertson, Ian Ross. "Historical Writing on Prince Edward Island Since 1975." Acadiensis, XVIII(1) (Autumn/automne 1988): 157-183.
Robertson, Ian Ross. "Recent Island History." Acadiensis, IV(2) (Spring/printemps 1975): 111-118.
Theses
Gillis, Roger. "The Life and Letters of Prince Edward Island Proprietor Captain John MacDonald of Glenaladale: An Exercise in Humanities Computing." M.A., University of New Brunswick, 2007.
Hatvany, Matthew G. "Tenant, Landlord, and the New Middle Class: Settlement, Society and Economy in Early Prince Edward Island, 1798-1848." Ph.D., University of Maine, 1996.
Phelan, Reg. "Islanders and the Land: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Culture of Land Struggle in Prince Edward Island." M.A., Saint Mary's University, 1997.
Websites
Baglole, Harry. "Patterson (Paterson), Walter." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Bumsted, J. M. "Fanning, Edmund." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Bumsted J. M. "MacDonald of Glenaladale, Helen," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Holman, H. T. "Callbeck, Phillips." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Hunter, Dave. "Glenaladale Settlers Page." The Island Register.
Johnson, Cory. "A Sketch of the MacDonalds." MacDonald Family Genealogy.
Knight, Kevin. "Catholic Encyclopedia: John MacDonald." New Advent.
McIntyre, Alastair. "Canadian History - John Macdonald of Glenaladale." ElectricScotland.com.
McIntyre, Alastair. "Captain John MacDonald, 'Glenalladale'." ElectricScotland.com.
Pigot, F. L. "MacDonald of Glenaladale, John," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Pigot, F. L. "Stewart, John." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Thorpe, F. J. "Holland, Samuel Johannes." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.