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You walked with us awhile: Thirty six year history of PEI solidarity with the Caribbean and Central America / by Latin American Mission Program (LAMP). - Charlottetown: Latin American Mission Program

  • CA PCA Acc4904
  • Collection
  • [ca. 2004]

This work provides a history of the Latin American Mission Program (LAMP) which was established by the Diocese of Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island in 1968. The publication also includes personal reminiscences and stories of 19 Islanders who traveled to the Caribbean and Central America as missionaries with LAMP.

Latin American Mission Program (LAMP)

York residents photograph album

  • CA PCA Acc4363
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1870-1900]

The collection consists of 34 portrait images comprised of 28 cabinet cards, 3 cartes-de-visites and 4 tintypes. There is also one death announcement card. Approximately half of the images are identified although identifications may be suspect in some cases. Those that are identified were residents of York in the nineteenth century. About half of the photographs were taken by C. Lewis or George H. Cook of Charlottetown, PEI.

Crockett, Florence Loretta

Women's Secretariat photograph collection

  • CA PCA Acc4321
  • Collection
  • 8 June 1993

The collection consists of four photographs taken on the day following the opening of the PEI Legislature. They are group photographs of the leading public officials, Lieutenant-Governor Marion Reid, Premier Catherine Callbeck, Speaker of the House Nancy Guptill, Deputy-Speaker Libby Hubley, Leader of the Opposition Pat Mella. Also included in two of the photographs is Margaret MacKinnon, first female Aide- de-Camp to the Lieutenant-Governor.

When the first session of the fifty-ninth general assembly of the Prince Edward Island Legislature met in June of 1993, the five principal public officials were all women, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Premier, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House, and the Leader of the Opposition. The Women's Secretariat of Prince Edward Island was the body responsible for organizing the photo session.

Witness at "The Cross" : a history of Kensington United Church, 1887-1991 / by the History Committee of Kensington United Church

  • CA PCA Acc4471
  • Collection
  • 1991

After describing the general congregational history of the United Church in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, from its beginnings to the 1990s, this volume gives an account of the history and activities of various church groups such as the Sunday School. CGIT, United Church Women, etc.

Kensington, or Barrett's Cross as it was then known, Prince Edward Island, was part of the Bedeque and, later, Margate circuits of the Methodist faith. A Methodist church was first built in Kensington in 1888 on land donated by Hon. G.W.W. Bentley. A Presbyterian church had been built in 1886 as part of the Malpeque circuit. In 1925 Methodists and Presbyterians joined to create the United Church in Kensington, worshipping in the former Methodist Church.

Winifred Clark collection

  • CA PCA Acc3118
  • Collection
  • 192-?

The fonds consists of eleven color postcards, eight of which depict streets and buildings in Charlottetown such as St. Dunstan's College, Prince of Wales College, Victoria Hotel, Queen's Square, Grafton Street, Queen Street, Great George Street, as well as Victoria Park. Other postcards depict Rocky Point, the Summerside Post Office, and the "Prince Edward Island" car ferry. Two postcards include messages to William Carr of Elm Avenue, Charlottetown.

Clark, Winifred

William and Mary Burnett collection

  • CA PCA Acc4092
  • Collection
  • 1913-1971; Copied 2009

The various items in this collection were apparently acquired by various members of the Burnett family. They reflect Bill Burnett's life and career, containing documents and photographs which relate to his, and his family's, involvement in their community. It has been arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Royal visits
Series 2: Boy Scouts
Series 3: West Kent School
Series 4: Military memorabilia
Series 5: Programs
Series 6: Photographs
Series 7: Miscellaneous documents
Series 8: J. E. B. McCready

Burnett, William Robertson

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

William A. Bartlett collection

  • CA PCA Acc2770
  • Collection
  • 1962-1994

This collection consists of two pieces of sheet music with lyrics by Island authors, a booklet for the teaching of music to Grades I - VII, and listings of music teachers in Prince Edward Island schools from 1962-1994.

Bartlett, William A.

Whear/Parker family photographic collection : [ca. 1900-1930]

  • CA PCA Acc4400
  • Collection
  • Copied 1994

The collection consists of a selection of images taken from two albums kept by Marion Whear from approximately 1910-1920 of her friends and activities including class pictures and Charlottetown buildings. These are supplemented with portraits of Whear and Parker family members as well as images of the Parker home and foundry.

Parker (Family)

Weir family collection

  • CA PCA Acc4004
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1920], [ca. 1930]

The collection consists of three photographs of John Weir and others. One photograph is of John Weir as part of a crew of workers building or repairing a section of the railway at Tracadie Cross possibly in the 1920s. Elmer MacDonald is also identified as being a member of the crew. The other photographs include one of a group from the Tracadie area including John J. Weir and his wife Mary MacDonald and the other is of John and Mary's son, Joseph James. In this photograph a young Joseph James has a dog hitched to a small cart.

Weir (Family)

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