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.

Tuesday Treasures

Built in 1845, the Point Prim lighthouse is the first and oldest lighthouse on Prince Edward Island and one of only a few round brick lighthouses in Canada.

In the early 19th century, sea trade between Canada and Europe increased rapidly and so did shipwrecks and disasters at sea. As Charlottetown grew it required more merchandise and as shipping traffic increased, so did the number of shipwrecks along our shores.

The demand for a guiding beacon into Charlottetown Harbour peaked in 1841, when the colony’s General Assembly was petitioned by concerned merchants and ship owners.

There was great debate about where the Lighthouse should be built. Lieutenant Governor Charles Fitz Roy wrote letters to captains of the Royal Navy requesting their opinion. Finally it was agreed that the best place for general use in navigating the Northumberland Strait, would be Point Prim.

It took 3 years for the Assembly to agree upon and appropriate the proper funding and location for a lighthouse. Finally in 1844, an advisory committee, submitted a report, recommending a tower, 60 feet in height.


At that time, the prominent architect Isaac Smith, who had designed Government House and would later design Province House, drew up the plans for the lighthouse tower. On March 31, 1845, a committee appointed by the House of Assembly, of 22 men travelled 16 miles over the ice in 10 horse drawn sleighs for the purpose of surveying the site for the intended lighthouse.

The group, led by William Douse local MPP and agent for Lord Selkirk, included architect Isaac Smith and the land surveyor L.W. Gall. The Point Prim acreage was owned by the Earl of Selkirk. It was his Lordship’s wish to donate this 9 acre property to the Colony for the prestigious Point Prim Lighthouse.

Signs

 Joining Tom at Signs2.

Random-osity

Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day

More warning signs.

Point Prim PEI

Hilarious! Malpeque PEI

T for Tuesday

 T Stands For is hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard

Click here to see more of the Point Prim PEI bottle house.

PEI is known for Anne of Green Gables.

Tuesday Treasures

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

Travel Tuesday

Image-in-ing

My Corner of the World

Postcards

Mailboxes in Point Prim PEI

 

Point Prim PEI

August 2014 - Point Prim PEI

I found a description at the Point Prim Lighthouse site.


Gar Gillis is the creator of Hannah’s Bottle Village. He was inspired by Mount Carmel, the bottle village up west. He named it Hannah’s Bottle Village and he said that his Uncle Linwood had a summer cottage on PEI and his granddaughter, Hannah, spent a lot of time on the island, so he named it after her. Actually, each building in the bottle village is named after a relative. The first building built was the church. It is named after youngest grandson, Noah. 

There is no admission charge, but donations are being collected for the IWK children’s hospital in Halifax.

The last thing to be built was the gate, named after step granddaughter Peyton.

The second building to rise was the Sydney’s General Store, named after granddaughter, Sydney.  

The third building created was the school house dubbed Cameron Allan Davies Schoolhouse after oldest grandson.

The fourth building to be built was the imitation “Annalee home”.

Number six is JR’s Tea Room, named after late Mom, Jesse Ross, who apparently always had the teapot on.

What's more Canadian than Tim Horton's!

The fifth building was named after his Dad and former lighthouse keeper, Norman Gillis.