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Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island Collection
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Caribou Historical Society collection

  • CA PCA Acc4399
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1928]

The collecton consists of four colour and one black and white postcard depicting Queen's Square, Charlottetown and the Victoria Hotel as well as one unidentified rural scene. Two are addressed to a Miss Eula Stetson and are dated 1928.

Caribou Historical Society

Carrie Holman collection

  • CA PCA Acc2626
  • Collection
  • 1895-1972

The majority of the collection consists of records relating to Carrie Holman. A scrapbook of newspaper clippings of her radio broadcasts (1948), newspaper clippings (1927-1948, 1968-1972), and correspondence (1937-1971) consisting of letters and telegrams to Carrie make up the majority of the collection. Papers belonging to Gladys Holman, including a coronation medal and certificate commemorating the silver jubilee of George V and Queen Mary (1935), George Vl and Queen Elizabeth (1937), and Queen Elizabeth ll (1953), as well as a graduation photograph of Carrie are also contained in the collection.

Holman, Carrie Ellen

Catherine St. John collection : [1834-1970]

  • CA PCA Acc3023
  • Collection
  • 1834-1970

This fonds consists of the correspondence of brothers David (1769-1852) and Robert Bruce Stewart, (?-1846) originally of Perthshire, Scotland, who worked as surveyors and land agents in London, England, to William Buchanan (1800-?). Correspondence between 24 March 1834 and 18 February 1835, deal with the transfer of one-hundred acres of land in Prince Edward Island from the Stewarts to Buchanan. Further correspondence pertaining to this transfer was written between 20 October 1875 and 13 December 1875, by various land agents. The fonds also contains genealogical notes on Isabella Purdie Stewart, wife of Robert and David's brother James, notes taken from tourist information written in 1967 concerning David and Robert Stewart, and extracts from a letter from the Public Archives of Canada written to Catherine St. John in April 1970, regarding the Stewart brothers.

St. John, Catherine

Centenary celebrations and unveiling of monument to the memory of the Brudenell pioneers (1803-1903), Brudenell Island, July 16, 1903

  • CA PCA Acc4424
  • Collection
  • 1953

This fonds consists of a volume containing a brief history of the families, text of addresses given and photographs taken on the two occasions, and genealogies of the Gordon and McLaren families. In addition there are three handwritten pages presumably by Stafford Northcote Gordon re Kenmure Farm, Brudenell.

In 1803 a small band of Scottish immigrants consisting of James McLaren, his wife, four sons, three daughters, two sons-in-law, James Stewart and Donald Gordon and their families landed at Brudenell River to begin a new life in Prince Edward Island. The families flourished and spread to other areas of P.E.I. and beyond. On the one hundredth and one-hundred and fiftieth anniversaries of this landing, descendants of the families have gathered at Brudenell Island to pay homage to their ancestors with the erection and unveiling of a monument and plaque.

Centennial projects collection

  • CA PCA Acc2953
  • Collection
  • 1964-1967

The collection consists of scrapbooks, research papers, and plays written by school children documenting the community histories of Crapaud, Grand Tracadie, O'Leary, Norway, Cardigan, Charlottetown, Tignish, Millcove, Fort Augustus, Hebron, Georgetown, York, Malpeque, Bideford, the Brackley Point Road, Kensington, Margate, North Rustico, Tryon, Miscouche, Tracadie and Scotchfort. In these documents are pictures, family genealogies, and memories of residents.

Prince Edward Island Centennial Committee (1967). Student Involvement Program.

Charles James and Eliza Dickieson photograph : [ca. 1900]

  • CA PCA Acc4410
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900]

The collection consists of one photograph of Charles James and Eliza (Haslam) Dickieson, ca. 1900.

Charles James Dickieson was born at New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, on 17 March 1834. As a young man he was an active member of the Tenant League, dedicated to the abolishment of leasehold tenure. In early 1866 he was sentenced to 18 months incarceration and a 50 fine for summoning his colleagues and physically resisting the deputy sheriff and bailiffs from serving writs for non-payment of rent. In 1871 he married Eliza Haslam, daughter of Joseph Haslam and Mary Weeks with whom he has three sons and two daughters. Charles died in December 1936 at the age of 102. Eliza died in 1940 at the age of 90.

Unknown

Charlottetown and rural PEI photograph collection : [ca. 1913]

  • CA PCA Acc4359
  • Collection
  • Copied 1994

The collection consists of 59 negatives of scenes in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, including the fire at St. Dunstan's Cathedral, 1913, a parade on Kent, Queen and Grafton Streets, and Falconwood Hospital. There are several farm scenes, images of people in carriages, and photographs of a train wreck. More than half the negatives are unprinted containing images of unidentified persons and places.

Unknown

Charlottetown Business College class photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4391
  • Collection
  • [ca. 192-]

The image is of a class of women from the Charlottetown Business College, ca. 1920s. Several are identified, as follows:

Back row, l to r: ? Brehaut, Jennie Cousins, Mary MacNeill, Pearl Burns? Bell Wood, Marie Mutch, Edythe Wood, Lois Ford, Annie MacNevin, Sadie MacKinnon, Pearl Burns?

Front row, l to r: Marjorie Nelson, Emily Foster, ? , ? McCannel, Jessie MacPherson, Nita Wood, Hannah McNaughton

Charlottetown Business College

Charlottetown conference of Canadian premiers 1961 photograph

  • CA PCA Acc3331
  • Collection
  • 1961

This collection consists of one photograph of the provincial premiers who participated in the 1961 Charlottetown Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The delegates are pictured standing on the porch of Fanningbank, the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of PEI. Provincial premiers pictured in the photograph are, from left to right: W. A. C. Bennett, British Columbia: E. C. Manning, Alberta; T. C. Douglas, Saskatchewan; Dufferin Roblin, Manitoba; Leslie Frost, Ontario; Jean Lesage, Quebec; Louis Robichaud, New Brunswick; R. L. Stanfield, Nova Scotia; W. R. Shaw, Prince Edward Island; Joseph Smallwood, Newfoundland.

Charlottetown was the site of the second annual premiers' conference held 14 and 15 August 1961. The first annual meeting of the Canadian premiers was held in Quebec City in 1960 at the suggestion of then Quebec premier, Jean Lesage. The meeting delegates were officially welcomed to Prince Edward Island by Charlottetown mayor, Walthen A. Gaudet, at a reception held at the Charlottetown Hotel. The meetings were chaired by Premier Frost of Ontario and co-chaired by Prince Edward Island Premier Walter Shaw. Meetings were held at Province House and topics discussed included: the coordination of provincial sales tax collection, disaster aid, forest fire protection, agricultural and uniform traffic legislation research, portable pensions, the creation of a council of provincial premiers, the proposed building to commemorate the centennial of Confederation, education, Lord's Day Act, off-shore mineral rights, and financial matters.

Unknown

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