Peter Adolphus McIntyre

The Hon.
Peter Adolphus McIntyre
7th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
In office
May 23, 1899 – October 3, 1904
MonarchsVictoria
Edward VII
Governor GeneralThe Earl of Minto
PremierDonald Farquharson
Arthur Peters
Preceded byGeorge William Howlan
Succeeded byDonald Alexander MacKinnon
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for King's County
In office
January 22, 1874 – September 17, 1878
Serving with Daniel Davies
Preceded byAugustine Colin Macdonald
Succeeded byAugustine Colin Macdonald
Ephraim Bell Muttart
In office
June 20, 1882 – March 5, 1891
Preceded byAugustine Colin Macdonald
Ephraim Bell Muttart
Succeeded byAugustine Colin Macdonald
John McLean
Personal details
Born(1840-07-19)July 19, 1840
Peterville, Prince Edward Island Colony
DiedJuly 16, 1910(1910-07-16) (aged 69)
Souris, Prince Edward Island, Dominion of Canada
NationalityCanadian
Political partyLiberal
Spouses
Agnes McDonald
(m. 1871)
Barbara Rigg
(m. 1886)
ResidenceSouris, Prince Edward Island
Alma materQuebec Seminary
Laval University
McGill University
Saint Dunstan's University
Occupationpublic servant, physician and coroner
ProfessionPolitician

Peter Adolphus McIntyre (July 19, 1840 – July 16, 1910) was a Canadian politician, public servant, physician and coroner.[1][2]

Born at Peterville in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, McIntyre's paternal grandfather came to Canada from Scotland around 1785 and settled at Cable Head, PEI. McIntyre's great-grandfather on his mother's side fought under General Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.[1]

McIntyre was educated at the Quebec Seminary, Laval University and McGill University where he earned his medical degree in 1867. He returned to Prince Edward Island to begin his practice. He served as Kings County coroner for several years.[1]

In 1872 he was appointed one of the commissioners overlooking the construction of the Prince Edward Island Railway and was railway commander.[1]

Following Prince Edward Island's entry into Canadian confederation which occurred, in part, as a result of the debt incurred by the colony for the railway's construction, McIntyre was elected in the 1874 federal election to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Kings County. He was defeated in the 1878 federal election but regained his seat in 1882 and was re-elected in 1887.[2] After being defeated in the next two elections,[2] McIntyre was appointed the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island by the Laurier government in 1899. He served in office until 1904 and died six years later in Souris, P.E.I.[1]


1874 Canadian federal election: King's County
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Conservative Daniel Davies 1,704 X
Liberal Peter Adolphus McIntyre 1,530 X
Liberal–Conservative Augustine Colin Macdonald 1,496  
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1878 Canadian federal election: King's County
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Liberal–Conservative Augustine Colin Macdonald 2,264 X
Conservative Ephraim Bell Muttart 2,077 X
Liberal Peter Adolphus McIntyre 1,499  
Unknown Malcolm McFadyen 1,251  
1882 Canadian federal election: King's County
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Liberal Peter Adolphus McIntyre 2,124 X
Liberal James Edwin Robertson 2,002 X
Liberal–Conservative Augustine Colin Macdonald 1,941  
Conservative Ephraim Bell Muttart 1,854  
1887 Canadian federal election: King's County
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Liberal J.E. Robertson 2,434 X
Liberal Peter Adolphus McIntyre 2,431 X
Conservative Augustine Colin Macdonald 2,398  
Conservative Ephraim Bell Muttart 2,355  
1891 Canadian federal election: King's County
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Conservative John McLean 2,624 X
Conservative Augustine Colin Macdonald 2,514 X
Liberal Peter Adolphus McIntyre 2,369  
Liberal James Edwin Robertson 2,276  

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