Firm Profile

Carr, Stevenson & MacKay (CSM) has been offering a comprehensive range of legal services to clients from across Prince Edward Island for over 25 years. Due in large part to our commitment to providing our clients with quality personalized care, CSM has earned a sterling reputation as a top law firm in the province. The founding partners of the firm, John Carr Q.C., Barbara Stevenson Q.C. and J. Gordon MacKay Q.C. have cultivated a firm culture that focuses on putting the client first and ensuring that his or her needs and expectations are fulfilled every time they walk through our doors. The firm's perspective is shaped by its connection to the province of Prince Edward Island and a genuine commitment to improving the community in which we all live. Our clients know they are valued at CSM and take comfort in our vast experience to assert and guard their legal interests provincially, nationally and internationally.

Our offices are located in historic Peake House in downtown Charlottetown. We are a general practice law firm offering services in the areas of real estate, all types of civil litigation including personal injury, insurance, family, criminal, administrative, labour and corporate-commercial, and wills and estates law.

About Peake House

The Honourable James Ellis Peake built this elegant brick house in 1835-36 near his stores and wharves and with a view of the harbour where his ships came in.

Built of Island bricks laid in Flemish bond (a length of brick next to an end of brick alternately in each row) on the facade, it is a symmetrical building topped at a later date with a rounded dormer. An attractive fanlight and a door with fine trim lead from an inside vestibule to a center hall.

The Peake family operated an extensive shipbuilding trade between Plymouth, England, and Prince Edward Island, and James Peake the elder was one of the most influential men in the early colony.