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Employees of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Charlottetown, photographs

  • CA PCA Acc4342
  • Collection
  • 1921

This collection consists of two photographs of employees of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Charlottetown. One photograph is of six female employees of the Bank of Nova Scotia in the last year the bank was located on the corner of Great George and Richmond. They are identified as follows:

Back row: Verna (Hooper) Cameron, Margaret (Hegan) Malone, Fanny (Robertson) Carter

Front row: Alice (McLaren) Aitken, Mamie (Trainor) Gallivan, Kit Murphy (married name unknown)

The second photograph was located behind the above photograph. It is of an unidentified male. Inscription is signed Allison.

The Bank of Nova Scotia opened its first branch on Prince Edward Island on 19 June 1882 in a building purchased from the defunct Bank of Prince Edward Island located at the northeast corner of Great George and King Streets. In 1883 it amalgamated with the Union Bank of Prince Edward Island and removed to that institution's building on the southeast corner of Great George and Richmond Streets. It continued to conduct business at this site until 1921 when it moved into new premises at Grafton and University where it remains today.

Unknown

Montague race track photograph

  • CA PCNMPGG Fonds45
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1920]

This single collected item consists of a photograph of the Montague Race Track, ca. 1920. Photographer is unknown.

Unknown

Sir Louis Henry Davies photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4128
  • Collection
  • 1919

This collection consists of a photograph of Louis Henry Davies (1845-1924) and some family members was taken at "Curdridge," Hampshire, England, probably in 1919 when Sir Louis Henry Davies was in Europe for the Versailles Conference. Identified people in the photograph include: Sir Louis Henry Davies, Lady Davies, Mrs. Frances Davies (nee Ramsbotham), Reverend Herwald Davies, Miss Winifred Davies, Mrs. Muriel Tew (nee Davies), Mrs Joyce Jeffery (nee Davies).

Sir Louis Henry Davies was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 4 May 1845. He received his education at the Central Academy in Charlottetown, and at the Inner Temple in London. He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and quickly gained recognition in that field. In 1876, he was elected to the P.E.I. Legislature. He served as Premier of the Province between 1876 and 1879. One of his outstanding achievements while in office was the legislation which established public schools in Prince Edward Island.

In 1882, Davies entered federal politics as a representative of Queens County. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1901, and in 1918, became Chief Justice of Canada. He died and was buried in Ottawa 1 May 1924.

Unknown

Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital : ca. 1919

  • CA PCA Acc4746
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1919]

The photograph is a view of Government House and the Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, taken from the southeast.

The Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital was built during World War I as a convalescent hospital for military personnel. Named for nursing sister Rena MacLean who was lost when the "Llandovery Castle" was torpedoed in 1918, it occupied a space to the east of Government House in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The basement of the hospital housed a vocational training facility known as the Technical School. The hospital closed about 1920.

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Hallidays Wharf photograph : [ca. 1913]

  • CA PCA Acc4632
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1913]

The collection contains one photograph of Hallidays Wharf with the ferry Harland just leaving dock. The photograph was taken circa 1913. Hallidays wharf was in Belfast, Prince Edward Island, presumably named for the family living on the property where the wharf was situated.

Unknown

Unidentified procession photograph : [ca. 1910]

  • CA PCA Acc4989
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910]

This photograph [ca. 1910] depicts an unidentified procession along the water at Victoria Park in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Some of the men in the procession are wearing tartan sashes and tams, others top hats. The three men leading the procession are carrying bagpipes, and musical instruments can be seen further back in the crowd. A number of people appear to be walking alongside, but slightly apart from, the actual procession.

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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.

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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.

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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

Souvenir of Montague, Prince Edward Island, postcard

  • CA PCNMPGG Fonds27
  • Collection
  • 1907

This single collected item consists of a postcard featuring an image of potatoes being loaded onto a schooner at the Montague wharf in 1907. The post card was sent to a Miss Mamie Shaw of Montague by G.? H., a friend, also a resident of Montague. Post marked 11 May 1907. Nothing is known about the creator of the image.

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