Augustus Edward Crevier Holland

HOLLAND, AUGUSTUS EDWARD CREVIER, justice of the peace and farmer; b. 1824, in Tryon, son of Frederick B. Holland and Elizabeth Grathay; m. first 9 June 1858 Mary Conroy, and there were no children; m. secondly 1 October 1879 Emma Parker, and there were no children; m. thirdly 2 July 1898 Annie Page of Bedford, Nova Scotia, and there were no children; Presbyterian; d. 1919. Holland, a Conservative, was first elected to the House of Assembly in the 1873 general election for 4th Prince. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1879 and 1883. He was defeated in the general election of 1879. In 1873 Holland was appointed a member of the Board of Works. Fie was best-known in the House of Assembly for supporting Cornelius Howatt* in April 1873 by seconding a motion to refuse the terms of admission into Union with the Dominion of Canada. The motion was defeated by a margin of 24 to 2. He testified as a landlord before the Land Commission in 1860, believing that under the landlord system in existence at the time, Islanders lived a life of plenty and prosperity, and that the landlords were benevolent. A. E. C. Holland received his education in Tryon. For a time he lived in Searletown with his first wife, Mary, on a property called Holland Grove, named for the famous estate of the same name in Charlottetown where Holland's uncle, Carl John Frederick Holland, had lived. A. E. C. Holland died in 1919. Holland's grandfather, the Major Honourable Samuel Holland, RA., was for many years Surveyor General of the province, and he established the system of lots on Prince Edward Island. He also served as a member of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council. Major Holland was present with General Wolfe at the battles of Louisbourg and Quebec.