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Meadow Bank History: Cornwall Hall & Libraries
Here is our fifth excerpt from the Meadow Bank W.I. Tweedsmuir History published in 1951. Cornwall Hall The public hall at Cornwall was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in May…
Read MoreMeadow Bank History: Church
Here is our fourth excerpt from The Meadow Bank W.I. Tweedsmuir History in 1951 written by Mrs. Charles Hyde. The people of early Meadow Bank were for the most part…
Read MoreMeadow Bank History: The School
Here is our third excerpt from Meadow Bank Women’s Institute Tweedsmuir History – published in 1951. School instruction started around at houses in about the same way as church services…
Read MoreMeadow Bank History: Women’s Institute
Here is our second excerpt from Meadow Bank W.I. Tweedsmuir History from 1951 which talks about the establishment of the Women’s Institute in 1913 and re-establishment again in 1938. Meadow Bank…
Read MoreMeadow Bank History from 1951
Joanne (MacFadyen) Turner presented us with a copy of a brief history of Meadow Bank that was completed in 1951, given to her by her Uncle Lennis MacFadyen. The history was prepared by…
Read MoreMy 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 MoreClyde River Lecture: Home from Boston, Feb. 18, 1:30 p.m.
This Saturday is our third and final 2017 History Lecture and you won’t want to miss it. It takes a good dose of humour to get through an Island winter…
Read MoreClyde River School Arithmetic Exam – 1930s
So, do you think you are smarter than your Grandma or Grandpa? Here are arithmetic problems from a textbook in the 1930s. Hint: you may have to ask your Grandparents to…
Read MoreA Narration of the Scotch Emigrant in the year 1833
The following is a narrative written by Joanne (MacFadyen) Turner’s great great Uncle Malcolm F. MacKinnon of Churchill which gives us a detailed account of the hope and trepidation of a group of Scottish…
Read MoreColonsay – Our Ancestral Home
Many families in Clyde River have an ancestral connection to Colonsay, Scotland. Immigrants to Prince Edward Island in the early 1800s sailed on the Polly 1803, Dykes 1803, Oughton 1803, Spencer…
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