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 were held. The principal courses on the curriculum being the three “R’s”. Tradition says that upon one occasion when a barn then on the property […]
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Meadow Bank History: The School
Posted in History, Meadow Bank History, Schooldays on March 3, 2017| 1 Comment »
Clyde River Lectures 2016
Posted in Clyde River Lecture Series, Friends of Clyde River, History, Sport on January 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »
January is upon us, and so far, so good. We are having a lovely winter, but we thought that this time last year and all that changed come the end of January. Within three weeks, it looked like those legendary winter heritage photos. Well, we in Clyde River do our best to make the winter […]
Island Connections
Posted in Genealogy, History, Murchison Place Park on August 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
(Story submitted by Jane Von Bredow) In the picture, above, which was published on November 2014, two of the girls in the boat were Ina Livingstone and Isabel Murchison. They had been school friends earlier, and were still good friends at that later date, in 1927, when the picture was taken. It was just one […]
Memories of my Childhood in the Murchison Home
Posted in History, Murchison Place Park on March 16, 2015| 2 Comments »
Capturing Collective Memories continues as Jane Von Bredow recounts childhood memories of living with her grandparents Dr. and Mrs. A.J. Murchison. This beautifully detailed account is the perfect gift of reading during this extended St. Patrick’s snow storm. When my mother (Isabelle Murchison Johnstone) died of leukemia in 1933, I was sent to live with my grandparents, Dr. and […]
Skating on Christie’s Pond
Posted in History on February 16, 2015| 5 Comments »
I interviewed my mother Hazel Beer back in 2011 about Christie’s Pond on Bannockburn Road where she and her friends came together back in the 1930s for skating parties. Our Capturing Collective Memories from Seniors initiative discovered two photos. If you have any others, please let me know. Christie’s Pond, located about a half mile in the Bannockburn […]
Dutch Thompson presents “Unforgettable Characters” on Feb. 21st, 1:30 p.m.
Posted in Clyde River Lecture Series, Events, Friends of Clyde River, History on February 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The Friends of Clyde River History Committee will host their second history lecture next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Riverview Community Centre as part of the “Capturing Collective Memories from Seniors” project. Dutch will present stories from some of the hundreds of people he has interviewed in the past 30 years, everything from those who swear by unusual home remedies like […]
Reminder: Catherine Hennessey to present this Saturday, Jan. 24th, 1:30 p.m.
Posted in Events, History on January 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Saturday, January 24th, 1:30 p.m. – Catherine Hennessey – “Samuel Holland, Lord Selkirk and the Farmers of Lot 31″ 2015 marks 250 years since Samuel Holland surveyed Prince Edward Island. Catherine will talk about the important contribution that Holland made to our Island, how Lord Selkirk came to own land in Lot 31 and the struggles local farmers had with distant landlords. For […]
2015 Clyde River Lectures – Mark your Calendars
Posted in Clyde River Lecture Series, Events, Friends of Clyde River, History on January 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The Friends of Clyde River Historical Committee will host two upcoming lectures that will feature the two most informed and entertaining purveyors of history in Prince Edward Island. These lectures continue our “Capturing Collective Memories from Seniors” project. Saturday, January 24th, 1:30 p.m. – Catherine Hennessey – “Samuel Holland, Lord Selkirk and the Farmers of Lot 31” 2015 marks 250 […]
Letters from the Great War – Lee Grant Darrach
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