Prince Edward Island - 1990

 May 2026 - Toronto ON

As I was planning our little trip to Charlottetown PEI, I realized I had posted our 2014 visit but never our 1990.

I know we went in 1990 because we had never been there and we also knew we were moving to Toronto from Montreal, so it would be a longer trip from Toronto.

This is mainly a photo (pre-digital) dump as there is little I remember other than the amazing food!!

Anne of Green Gables

Brackley Beach is a popular beach destination located only 20 minutes from Charlottetown with majestic dunes, clear water, and miles of pristine sand.

Cavendish Beach

Cavendish Mac Coubrey's B&B

CHARLOTTETOWN

McKinnon's Pound.

Dalvey

Malpeque

Montague 

North Rustic

Point Prim

SOURIS

Every Saturday afternoon during the summer months less than a dozen Anglicans gather in St. Alban's Anglican Church in Souris for services. This Saturday the services were led by Richard Ball, a lay minister. The church, erected in 1980 to serve approximately 70 parishioners  sits near site of the original church adjacent to Church Street in the town and close to the edge of a cliff bordering Colville Bay. The first church was built in 1895 under the leadership of Rev. E.T. Woollard. Before that, services were held in a private home. It was closed in 1919 and later demolished. The land was sold for $300 together with part of the churchyard after the Second World War.

SUMMERSIDE

Woodleigh Replicas was a park of miniatures situated in the rural community of Burlington outside Kensington, Prince Edward Island on a 30-acre site. The visitor attraction opened in 1957 and closed in May 2008.

Me!

Point Prim, from the air.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

DURING THE POSTWAR BOOM, WHITEHORSE was rapidly becoming the capital of Yukon. Everything about the city struggled to keep pace. As a result, buildings of slightly more epic proportions were created, the likes of which no frontier town had seen before, or likely will again.

When a massive influx of military personnel and laborers arrived to work on three major construction projects—the Alaska Highway, the North West Staging Route airports, and the Canol Pipeline–during the post-war boom, housing was at a premium in the once sleepy town of Whitehorse.


That’s when a septuagenarian named Martin Berrigan had a magnificently outsized idea. In blending the frontier aesthetic and resourcefulness of log cabins with the urban practicalities of stacking human beings like sardines, Berrigan took a small step in solving Whitehorse’s housing crisis (while providing himself with supplemental retirement income) by constructing a pair of “log skyscrapers,” the city’s first privately-built, multiple-dwelling rental accommodation.

Using logs that weighed 300 pounds each and stacking them 58-tall to a total height of three stories, Berrigan made sure his skyscrapers could withstand the harshness of the wilderness while retaining the awe-inspiring, standalone power of buildings found in more traditional city skylines. While Berrigan’s creations surely succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, he passed away in 1950, just two years after completing the log skyscrapers. Over the years, the units were modernized and have since taken on a life as the proper apartment buildings they are today.

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August 2018 - Toronto ON


Found this in my drafts folder.
We headed north to visit the Gibson House Museum.

Gibson House Museum is a red brick Georgian Revival farmhouse on land acquired and lived on by the Gibson family beginning in 1829. David Gibson and his sons surveyed (measured and mapped) land for settlement as a part of a 19th-Century settler colonial agenda. After the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 David was wanted by the government for his participation and the original farmhouse was burned down in retaliation, forcing the Gibsons to flee to the United States. On their return to York County, the Gibsons built this beautiful home and once again became active members of their rural community.

The house is now hidden behind the high rises of North York.

Step across the threshold and back in time to the 1850s kitchen. Feel welcomed by the warm aroma of wood smoke and beeswax.

His office.

Outside is a granite wall etched with photos of the Gibson family.