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Dave Hawkins, Murray River, feeding foxes photograph

  • CA PCA Acc4316
  • Collection
  • [193-]

This collection consists of one photograph of Dave Hawkins sitting on his lawn in Murray River feeding foxes. Also shown are Hawkins' Tailor Shop and the C. H. Horton store. The photographer is unknown.

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Cundall home (YWCA)

  • CA PCA Acc4339
  • Collection
  • [ca. 193-]

This collection consists of a photograph taken from the northwest side of the house showing the gardens in front as well as the architectural detail of the house and porches. It was taken in the 1930's when the house operated as a Young Women's Christian Association residence.

In 1875 James Peake Junior, eldest son of James Ellis Peake and senior partner in Peake Bros. & Co. purchased West End House and the northern portion of property owned by J.S. Carvell on the corner of West and Kent Streets in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The house was moved across West St. and in its place James & his wife Edith Constance Alice (Haviland) commissioned "Beaconsfield", named for Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, and designed by William Critchlow Harris in a blend of Italianate and Second Empire styles. A mixture of poor personal finances and involvement in the ill-fated Bank of Prince Edward Island caused the Peakes to lose the house to Henry Cundall, holder of the mortgage, in 1882. The Cundall family lived in the house from the fall of 1883 until July of 1916. It was then renovated by the Cundall Trust as a home for friendless young women but it is uncertain if it was ever used in this capacity. It did operate as a YWCA for some of the period between 1916 and 1936 at which later date it became a nurse's residence. In 1973 it was deeded from the government to the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. In the 1990s Beaconsfield was redecorated as an example of a Victorian residence and functioned as a museum as well as the headquarters of the Foundation.

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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.

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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.

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Henry McDonald, Sherbrooke, PEI portrait

  • CA PCA Acc4383
  • Collection
  • [19-]

This collection consist of an image which is a large format oval enhanced photograph. It is assumed to be Henry McDonald of Sherbrooke because of an inscription on the back. Verso is also inscribed Mrs. H.G. McDonald, Summerside, PEI

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Prince Edward Island post card collection

  • CA PCA Acc4390
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1904-195-]

This collection includes 54 colour and 26 black and white postcards. The postcards are arranged in the following groupings: churches and railway stations, ferries and iceboats, towns and villages, Charlottetown and Summerside, and pastoral and entertainment. Many of the postcards include messages, stamps and cancellation marks. Some are addressed to the Irving and Compton families. Ten of the images are of non- Prince Edward Island scenes and include Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands and Manitoba.

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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.

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Speech given at the Maritime Club / ? (Gordon) ?

  • CA PCA Acc4401
  • Collection
  • 12 November 1930

This collection consists of a paper outlining very briefly the history of Prince Edward Island and talks of the author's early life in Montrose as well as the Gordon family, transportation, education, politics, and religion on PEI around the turn of the century.

The author of this speech is unidentified. She was the daughter of a family named Gordon from Montrose, Prince Edward Island, and a cousin of the Eromanga martyrs. She later married a minister and moved to British Columbia.

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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.

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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.

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