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My Mother’s Scrapbook: A Forced Landing at Argyle Shore
Newspaper Clipping from My Mother’s Scrapbook: Argyle Shore residents were awakened from a sleepy winter 76 years ago this week when a plane force landed in the quiet community on Tuesday,…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook: Memories of my School Days
I found another gem in my mother’s scrapbook. It’s a Guardian clipping from 1951 where F.H. MacArthur recalls his days at the Old Cornwall School. Something tells me that it…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook: Berrigan’s Store at West River
The following is a clipping from Hazel Beer’s scrapbook that offers a detailed description of Berrigan’s store and the flow of commerce at West River. As part of our archives, we…
Read MoreFrom Eric’s Scrapbook: History Surrounds River Memories
While Victoria MacPhail was home for the holidays, she found this newspaper clipping in her grandfather Eric MacPhail’s scrapbook from 1979 which offers us a fascinating glimpse into the West…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook: Clyde River First Island Community to have a Coat of Arms (1994)
Nineteen years ago this month, Clyde River became the first community in Prince Edward Island to have a Coat of Arms. The following historical document explains the history leading up…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook: Service Honors War Sacrifices (1991)
There was a special service organized at the Riverview Community Centre in 1991 which was sponsored by the Clyde River Women’s Institute to honor the community’s veterans of past wars.…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook – A Herd of Cattle to Dawson City (1898)
Frank Gillespie’s story of adventure during the Klondike Gold Rush has me temporarily hooked on adventure stories from those days. I found a news clipping in My Mother’s Scrapbook about…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook: Early Automobiles – (1913-1919)
“In 1916, W.K. Rogers of Charlottetown offered his car to a young officer to visit his family in Tignish before going overseas. It was the first car to be driven…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook: Early Automobiles – (1904-1908)
“Autos must be hung up for all time…a $500 tax…we have no right to allow such a nuisance on PEI…only a foolish fad of millionaires and fools.” From a letter…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Scrapbook
We are beginning a new website series called My Mother’s Scrapbook. Many of our mothers saved clippings and wrote diaries about daily life in Clyde River. These scrapbooks show us how…
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