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R. Moorhead Legate photograph : [ca. 1940]

  • CA PCA Acc4144
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1940]

This collection consists of a photograph which is a studio portrait of Rev. R. Moorhead Legate, minister of the Kirk of St. James Presbyterian Church in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, between 1930 and 1941.

Unknown

65 University Avenue photograph : [ca. 1895]

  • CA PCA Acc4171
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1895]

This collection consists of a copy of a photograph of building at 65 University Avenue, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, taken ca. 1895. When this photograph was taken, the building was occupied by Bell Boot and Shoe Repair and E. F. Acorn Cleaning. The building housed Art's Taxi in 1991.

Unknown

William Aitken (Steamship) photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4239
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910]

The collection consists of one mounted photograph of the steamboat "William Aitken" moored somewhere in Nova Scotia.

The "William Aitken", a screw steamer carrying two engines, was built in Yarmouth, N.S. in 1887 by George W. Johston. She was 73'9" long, 18'3" wide, with a gross tonnage of 75 and a registered weight of 51 T. Registration was transferred to P.E.I. in 1889. She was owned and operated by William H., George E., and Frank C. Batt, of Charlottetown and named for William H. Aitken, prominent citizen and businessman in Charlottetown. She was deemed unseaworthy, dismantled, and broken up in Charlottetown in 1928.

Unknown

Convention of Baptist ministers at Eldon photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4298
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900]

This collection consists of a photograph of six unidentified Baptist ministers taken at a convention in Eldon, Prince Edward Island, ca 1900.

Unknown

Henry Pope Mills family photograph : [ca. 1910]

  • CA PCA Acc4309
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910]

This collection consists of a family portrait of Henry Pope Mills and his wife Lydia Ann (Mutlow) with their children Daisy (Ball), Will, Percy, Everett, Annie (Warren), Tom, Sadie (Young), Maggie (Cudmore), Lottie (Knowlton) and Roy, circa 1910.

Henry Pope Mills was born on 2 August 1859 at Little York, Prince Edward Island, the son of Stephen and Eleanor Mill. He was married to Lydia Ann Mutlow of Vernon River on 15 February 1879 with whom he had 10 children. For many years he operated a butcher and green grocer's shop at the corner of Weymouth and Fitzroy Streets in Charlottetown.

Unknown

Exhibition grounds photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4398
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1955]

This collection consists of an aerial photograph, taken ca. 1955, depicting the coliseum, barns, grandstand, and midway in operation during a Provincial Exhibition.

Provincial exhibitions have played a major role in the agricultural and social life of Prince Edward Island. The Charlottetown Driving Park and the Exhibition grounds and buildings have occupied the land next to the Hillsborough River west of the Hillsborough Bridge since the late 1880s. The grandstand was built in 1889, followed by a beautiful main building in 1890. This latter building was destroyed by fire in 1945 and its place was taken by the coliseum in 1952. The coliseum was replaced in preparation for the 1991 Winter Games by a much larger sports complex.

Unknown

Sgt. Anthony H. Fry photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4411
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1943]

The collection consists of one mounted photograph of Sgt. Anthony H. Fry ca. 1942.

Anthony H. Fry, RAF 65846, was a member of the no. 46 Air Navigation course at No. 31 General Reconnaisance School in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 16 March to 18 July 1942. Thereafter he was operational in Lancaster bombers of the 103 Squadron, RAF. Sergeant Fry was shot down over Holland on 1 April 1943.

Unknown

Popular verse and biography of Kings County collection

  • CA PCA Acc4511
  • Collection
  • 1882-1971

The collection contains a variety of verse and stories concerning people and events from the St. Peter's Bay, Souris, and North Lake areas of Prince Edward Island. Some of the items have a date and references that may indicate these materials were gathered and transcribed as part of a research project of some kind in the early 1970s.

Creator of this collection is unknown although several items appear to have been the property of George MacIsaac of St. Peter's, Prince Edward Island.

Unknown

Longshoremen who unloaded last coal boat in Charlottetown harbour photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4562
  • Collection
  • [193-?]

This single collected item consists of an image of a large group of longshoremen and a pair of horses posed in front of a vessel at dock. She is reported to be the last vessel to deliver a load of coal to the Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, docks.

Unknown

The mill at Crapaud

  • CA PCA Acc4663
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910]

The watercolour depicts the top side of the dam at the mill at Crapaud, Prince Edward Island ca. 1910. In the mid 1800s James Howatt operated saw, carding and grist mills at this location. They became known as the Leard Mills when the Bradford Howatt sold them to Charles Leard around 1900. The mills changed hands within the Leard family for several years thereafter. The grist mill burned in the early part of the century and was replaced with a new building. The artist is unknown.

Unknown

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