Island Heritage Links & Tidbits

Some links to follow for those of you interested in the Island and its heritage...

• SS Prince Edward Island also know as "The Old Prince".
• You can search for historic/heritage designated places here: Search Canada's Historic Places or PEI's Register of Historic Places
• A detailed architectural overview of the old homes on PEI by the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation: Heritage House Notes
• Why not let a little mouse show you around Charlottetown? Meet Eckhart :)
• Exploring the Island (PDF download for children - Grade Six)
• Many wonderful historical online maps of the Island at Island Imagined
• Looking for ancestors? Check the Island Register, the Public Archives & Records Office and Island Lives. Another good site is Family Search.org
• Blogs about PEI Heritage
• Hear about the olden days from the "Old-timers" themselves - many wonderful recordings of stories and other documents can be found at Telling Island Stories or at Island Voices
• island Narratives featuring the stories and pictures of thirteen Island communities
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Island Magazines
• Grab a cup of tea or coffee and pull up a chair - lots of old newspapers to browse through here! Island Newspapers
• Love walking the old trails? Island Trails
• The history of the telephone on PEI
• Interesting pics of our old railways and ferry boats can be found at Old Canadian Diesels
• Looking into the future - plans for developing the Charlottetown Harbourfront (fairly heavy PDF - give it time to load).

Did you know that school-aged youth can collect these lovely, free post-cards (there are 30!) from various sites around the Island? For more details, click the sample post-card and it will take you to "Historic Properties Online: Heritage Trading Cards" which is found on the historic places Prince Edward Island site.

Search the Island's historic places via the search boxes below. If the building is registered, you can simply put in the name or you can search by town, city, province, etc.

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Exploring the Island is a PDF book download for Grade Six put out by the PEI Board of Education.
The story is by Deirdre Kessler, illustrated by Natasha Kudaskina and Ken Shelton.

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Island Blogs

As I come across blogs that inspire me regarding Island history and architecture, I will post them here:

• PEI Heritage Buildings by C.W. Jeffery

• You can also have fun with the old pics posted to Historic PEI's Facebook page.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

• L.M. Montgomery Institute (Note: One of the things of interest is a tour of LM Montgomery's Island places - they detail a few lesser known places in this article Following in Anne's Footsteps)

• Newsletters from The Shining Scroll

• At Avonlea Village you'll find a gallery of Lucy Maud's photography and enjoy exploring some authentic heritage buildings hauled to that site that have actual ties to her life. They also have theatrical skits from the story of Anne of Green Gables for you to enjoy all day long! Get there early so you can see Matthew meet Anne at the train station :)

Island Magazines

• The Island Magazine is now digitized and online. 

• David Weale's magazine RED - The Island Storybook is available for sale at various local Island shops and online. (FYI: You will find my story and illustration about my great-grandfather being lost at sea in this issue. David asked me to read it at the issue's launch. I'd never read in public before! All I could think of was that if I ever had the pleasure of being in his magazine again, I'd be sure to write a piece that is very, very short...just in case...
  I also wrote an accompanying blog to go with it - As Fate Would Have It 

Articles on Island History

• A heartbreaking but interesting read: The Deportation of the Acadians from Isle St. Jean, 1758 by Earle Lockerby