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Presentation from Watershed Group, Wednesday, March 27th, 7:00 p.m.
All are invited to attend the Central Queens Wildlife Federation presentation on their work over the past two years along the Clyde River, Wednesday, March 27th, 7:00 p.m. at the…
Read MoreWe’ve Updated our Photo Page
Clyde River has certainly been a busy community. We have captured photos of history, landscape scenes and community events. We now have special albums that you can view and see…
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 MoreThe Discovery of Gillespite
Frank Gillespie was born in 1871 in the farmhouse by the old forge on the Bannockburn Road in Clyde River with the heart of an adventurer. In 1889, he and…
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…
Read MoreOur Trip to Meet Her Majesty The Queen
[slideshow]The following is a transcript of the speech Helen MacPhail presented at the 5th Clyde River Lecture recounting her and her husband, former Lieutenant Governor Lloyd G. MacPhail’s visit to…
Read MoreOur Next Clyde River Lecture Features Helen MacPhail, Saturday, March 2nd
Our fifth and final lecture for the 2013 winter season will feature Helen MacPhail. Helen and her husband, former Lieutenant Governor Lloyd G. MacPhail, had the rare opportunity to meet…
Read MoreTraditions and Stories Strengthen our Community
[slideshow]In the latest Clyde River lecture, David Weale told us when communities cease to take part in their own traditions, they start living someone else’s story, and the only way…
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