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2016 Heritage Awards from PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation

February 24, 2017, 1:25 pm
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     I had the pleasure of attending this year's Heritage Awards at Beaconsfield Carriage House on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017.   Below is from the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation's website.
http://www.peimuseum.com/index.php3?number=1052288&lang=E
2016 Award Recipients-
Heritage Activity

·        City of Charlottetown for Fort Edward Magazine stonework restoration
·        Clara Jean Howard and Craig Clark for former Rose Valley United Church restoration
·        Culture Summerside for Journal Pioneer and 105th Regiment anniversary programming
·        Estelle DesRoches for One Man’s Family
·        Tiber Falzett for various activities
·        Hughie Graham for various activities
·        Jean Jans for various activities
·        Larry and Jane Dugdale for restoration of former Cape Traverse Masonic Hall
·        King George Hall Committee for restoration of King George Hall
·        Ed MacDonald, Irene Novaczek and Josh MacFadyen (editors) for Time and a Place
·        Paige Matthie for Caroline Daly research and exhibit
·        Panmure Island Lighthouse Association for restoration of Panmure Island Lighthouse
·        Stacy MacInnis for restoration of Elliott's Train Station

Natural Heritage Activity Award
Jackie Waddell

Volunteer of the Year Award
Lois Brown

Mary Cornfoot Brehaut Award
Arlene Morrison

Publication of the Year Award
John Cousins for New London: The Lost Dream

Irene Rogers Award
Ken and Jenny Meister
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Below are images of the Architectural Restoration recipients.
Rose Valley United Church - Clara Jean Howard and Craig Clark (photo cf. Alicia (@globtrottinggourmond) Instagram
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Cape Traverse Masonic Hall - Larry & Jane Dugdale (photo by Kerras Jeffery)
King George Hall - King George Hall Committee / Port Hill (photo by Claude Arsenault)
Elliotts Train Station - Stacy MacInnis (photo by Stacy MacInnis)



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Springbrook Aerial

March 1, 2017, 4:05 pm
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     Arnold found this aerial photo amount a few things from his days - thinking the image was taken in the 1960's.
      The farm in the lower left corner is completely gone - not a shingle remains!  See zoomed in below.
     Same for the farm in the upper middle of the image - the old Doughart Farmstead (1928 Cummins Atlas shows Allan C. Doughart here; 1880 Meacham's Atlas show's Wm. Cole here with 62 acres) - not a shingle of that property remains.  Below is a zoomed-in image of the farmstead.  The house became famous for it's "No Picture Taking" sign and featured on the back cover of book, "A Day in the Life of Canada"published in 1984.  The house was bought and moved to French River where it remained empty and in ruins for years.  For a few years it was featured on the cover of the PEI Tourism's Arts & Heritage Trail guide.  In 2016 it was destroyed by a "control burn".
     The farm in the top left corner still has a house and barn remaining.  
 Below: my photos of the Doughart House taken in the summer of 2012.
 Below: an outbuilding on the Doughart Farmstead.
      Further up the road were a few old barns (see far left, third up) - they were burned for a scene in the "Emily of New Moon" TV series.  
Below: the barns burned for Emily of New Moon TV Series.
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MacWilliams Farm, Belfast

March 1, 2017, 4:52 pm
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     I took these photos of this old homestead on the TransCanada Highway in Belfast yesterday.  Meacham's1880 Atlas shows this property belonging to Robt McWilliams (50 Ac) & Chas. & Jas McWilliams (52 Ac) - today it appears these two parcels are one.  The low roof pitch and style makes me think this is a mid-1800's house.  The house appears to be on the Chas. & Jas McWilliams portion.
     In Cummins 1928 Atlas it show's Jno. R. McWilliams with 110 Ac.  It notes that John is an Ex-Road Master; married to Catherine, with the following children: Marion, Margaret, Bruce, Florence and John.
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Bordon Myers Woodworking, Parkdale (Charlottetown)

March 4, 2017, 11:18 am
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     I was in Charlottetown the other day and in the parking lot of Parkdale Pharmacy - I took these photos of Borden Myers Woodworking shop.  Here's a few photos I took.
        For more than 30 years I've been sending folks to Borden Myers Woodworking for windows, doors, etc.  Here's a door and window made by Borden.


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Rustico Rural Telephone Co. 1915

March 15, 2017, 10:22 am
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    These pages were given to Arnold - interesting reading about the Rustico Telephone - it was located across the road from the Pines Motel in Rusticoville. 
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MacPherson Sawmill, Eldon /Belfast

March 17, 2017, 3:59 pm
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     I was up east this afternoon and thought I'd run down to see if the MacPherson's old sawmill was still there.  Here it is on the right - it's hanging on in it's neglected state.  This is the last water-powered mill on Prince Edward Island - the last one of near 400 water-powered mills built on Prince Edward Island between the mid 1700's and 1990.
     I documented this building back in the fall & winter of 2010.  Here's a few photos taken at the time.  
     It makes me sad to think such a structure and the history here is not known to more Islanders - there's been a mill on this site since before the building of the St John's Baptist Presbyterian Church, the oldest church on the Island, built in 1824.
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Creswell House, St. Eleanors

March 18, 2017, 6:18 am
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    Often in telling a story architecture is shown - an example of that is in today's Guardian newspaper in an article by Katherine Dewar and the story of Nursing Sister Catherine Creswell.  Here is a great example of a mid-1800's Centre Dormer style house.
     Katherine Dewar is the author of the book "Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War 1914-1918"


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Elliott's Train Station restorer receives Heritage Award

March 21, 2017, 8:11 am
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     This article appeared on the PEI Government's website in an article they call, "Bringing History Home".  Stacy MacInnis moved the old Elliotts Train Station to his home in Burlington a couple of years ago.  I took these photos of the restored station in November 2016.
Here's the article:
https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/bringing-history-home
Stacy MacInnis remembers bundling up on cold winter mornings when he was five years old and going next door with his mother to stoke the coal stove for waiting passengers at the Elliott family’s train station in Pleasant Valley.
Fast forward more than 50 years – it’s a summer day and MacInnis, now 59 and his mother gone, has moved the station to his own homestead in Burlington where the Woodleigh Replicas once stood.
While repairing a part of the coal room wall, he spots his grandmother’s name among the many names carved into the tinder-dry wooden board.
“It hit me, I felt like I was saving a piece of heritage and creating a stronger connection with my ancestors,” MacInnis said.

MacInnis was one of several Islanders and groups awarded with a 2016 Heritage Award for his restoration of the 1888 station.
“I did it as a labour of love, I didn’t expect any reward for it,” he said.
Not every train station was a grand piece of architecture. The so-called flag stops, like the one at Elliotts Station, were very simple structures. Like many of its kind, when the Elliotts station was decommissioned in the 1960s, it was moved to a local farm to take up a new life as an outbuilding. That’s the end of the road for most buildings like this, and after fifty years as a storage shed, the old flag stop had deteriorated to where it was barely recognizable -- ready for demolition.
But the old Elliotts station always held a fascination for MacInnis. In 2014, he bought it and arranged to have it moved to his property in Burlington. There he brought it back to life, with new roof and shingles, but its original door and windows. The Heritage Award was recognition of his efforts to restore this small, but important example of both our railroad and architectural heritage.
The Elliott family was a staple of Pleasant Valley in days gone by. They had a wood mill, a grist mill, and a pond at the flag stop where the station stood. In winter they cut large chunks of ice from their pond to package in sawdust and ship by train to Charlottetown ice boxes in the days before electrical refrigeration.
The train station has two rooms, one waiting room where benches line the walls and sliding doors into a coal storage room.
MacInnis plans to showcase his photography and display train artifacts to make it feel like a little museum. He has painted the rusty red shingles to their original color.
His mother, Cecilia MacDowell, who tended its fires all those years ago, died six years ago at the age of 90, before MacInnis even got the idea to restore the station.
“She thought it was such a shame it was falling down,” he said. “She would have laughed to see it now.”
For a full list of 2016 Heritage Awards Winners visit the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation(link is external)
2016 PEI Heritage Award recipient Stacy MacInnis is pictured with His Honour, the Honourable H. Frank Lewis, Lieutenant Governor of PEI at the recent Heritage Awards ceremony
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Kelvin Grove Farmhouse demolished

March 22, 2017, 2:04 pm
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     Today I was surprised to see this old farmhouse gone - demolished and the hole filled in with fresh soil.  The house was located at 1778 Blue Shank Road on the corner with the Kelvin Rd. (Rte. 109) which leads over towards Scale's Pond.  This is Lot-25.  I don't know who the owners were.  I travel the Blue Shank Road weekly and have taken notice of this nicely kept treed homestead.  About two years ago I noticed the lawns weren't being cut - I wondered if the owner had passed away or moved.
     I often intended to take a photo of the late 19th-century Island-ell style farmhouse but never took the time to stop.  Thanks to Google Streetview I'm able to capture an image of what it looked like.
     Meacham's 11880 Atlas of P.E.I. shows this farm belonging to Mrs. James Johnson with 275 acres.
     Cumin's 1928 Atlas of P.E.I. shows this farm belonging to Wm. Caseley with the front portion of this lot comprising of 100 acres.  
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RW Woodworking, Hunter River

March 23, 2017, 4:03 am
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     Raeford Waite of R.W. Woodworking operates a top of the line woodworking operation!  Yesterday he posted these photos on his Facebook page of traditional styled windows he's made for a historic property that I prepared the drawings working with a local Architect.
    Raeford posted the following comments with these photos: "All ready for final coat had to use 221 pieces of cardboard because outside is rust red and inside is white, special thanks to my right hand man Kenny Stewart many long hours standing in one spot all day thanks to him..."
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1470370166329478&id=1048737388492760&pnref=story
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Lorne Valley Church and Hall

April 4, 2017, 11:10 am
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     On a trip East last week I took the 48 Road to Cardigan - when I passed the sign pointing to Lorne Valley I thought I'd drive in to see the church and the school. My first time in this small rural community.  From the 48 Road I took the Nicholson Road (Rte. 356) to the T-intersection with the Lorne Valley Road (Rte. 355) - here on the corner is St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and cemetery.
     To the south of the church, on the Lorne Valley Road, is The Olde Lorne Valley School.  This school is on the list of the Festival of Small Halls ( www.smallhalls.com ) to be visited during the annual festival held in June. 
     A little further north on the Lorne Valley Road is a little road called Valleyview Road with a great view of two farms.
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Rennie-Cotton Barn

April 17, 2017, 12:01 pm
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     This old barn is located on the Cheese Factory Road in Alma - it was built by Ralph Rennie back in the early 1950's when he and Blanche were first married.  Roy and Carol (Williams) Cotton bought the farm in the 1960's and lived her until a few years ago.  Today the farm is owned by Ralph's son and grandsons.
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Crapaud Mills

April 17, 2017, 12:37 pm
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     I was going through Island community histories online on Island Lives website ( http://137.149.200.109:8080/fedora/get/ilives:195234v3/PDF ) and came across this information on Crapaud mills from the book
The History of Crapaud
Vol. 3
1957-1991
by The Crapaud Women's Institute
Crapaud Millstream Seniors
     Here's a photo I took of Howatt's Mill not long before it was burned on Halloween night 1990.
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Christ Church Cherry Valley, Anglican - 175th Anniversary

April 18, 2017, 7:42 am
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     On April 23rd, 2017 at 10am Christ Church will celebrate their 175th anniversary with a celebration service.  The church, situated on Pownal Bay, was built in a grove of pine trees and today sits in a picturesque rural farming community.  The service will be officiated by the current Priest-in-Charge Rev. Dr. G. Wayne Short along with the Diocesan Bishop Ron Cutler.
     The church is located at 100 Cherry Valley Cove Rd.
Below are a few photos from the Church's website.
http://www.cherryvalleychurch.ca/
The following information comes from the Historic Places website...
http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=18701
     Christ Church Anglican is valued for its Georgian-style architecture, for its associations with United Empire Loyalist settlement in PEI, the history of the Anglican church on PEI, and for its contribution to the community of Cherry Valley.  The community of Cherry Valley was established in the 1780’s by United Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution.  Cherry Valley may have received its name from James Lewis Hayden (1749-1832) who named it for the town in Ulster County, New York where he was born.  Cherry Valley, New York is notable in American history for being the site of the Cherry Valley Massacre, which took place in 1778 during the American Revolution.  The eldest daughter of James Lewis Hayden, Margaret, was married to Major Joseph Beer (1754-1810), an ensign of the 5thBattalion of the King’s Rangers.   The Beers and Hayden families played a central role in the establishment of Christ Church Anglican.  The church land was donated by the Beers family and the contractor who built the church in 1842 was Thomas Beers, grandson of Joseph Beers.  The known carpenters were Thomas Tweedy and a Mr. Storey.  The church was built under the direction of Frederick Downe Panter who was the first rector.  Christ Church Anglican, Cherry Valley combines many original Georgian-style elements such as the simple gabled roof, the large eave returns and wide corner boards on the body and the sacristy with Gothic-inspired elements such as the arched windows are found on the south elevation.  Gingerbread trim on the south and east eaves and the tower and Gothic steeple which was added around 1900.  The north elevation was extended by a small addition in the 1970s.  Christ Church Anglican in Cherry Valley continues to be an important part of the landscape of its community.
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Egmont Bay Rectory

April 22, 2017, 12:08 pm
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     Below is the c.1886 Rectory of Eglise de Saint-Philippe et Saint-Jacque Parish, Egmont Bay.   I took these photos on March 25, 2010 just before they tour down the grand old church.  To get the rear views of the rectory and church I took the little short road behind the church called, Rennes Road.
View of the church and rectory from Rennes Road
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Glenwood Farmstead for Sale, 1896

April 26, 2017, 7:34 am
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Ross' Mill, Bridgetown

May 6, 2017, 11:37 am
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     I bought this 20"x16" photo of Ross' Sawmill from Moe's Auctioneering Service yesterday.
     I took these up-close images of the photo - appears to have just had a new board-n-batten roof.
     More than twenty years ago I was contacted by a family member ( who was born and raised in Boston ) about re-building a house to match the family home that was still standing at Ross's Mill - it was not restorable.   We documented the house and produced drawings. Below are photos I took that day of the house and barn - both have long since disappeared.
     The following information comes from www.islandlives.ca.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS: 
A history of the north side of the Boughton River. 
Page 68.  
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Knutsford School

May 17, 2017, 8:12 am
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     Our family met on Mother's Day last Sunday at Knutsford School.  Our grandmother Empress (MacNevin) McDowell, our matriarch (pictured below) was pleased to have her three daughters and their families to celebrate the occasion.   Empress came to Knutsford 81 years ago when she married our grandfather Roy McDowell on March 2, 1936.  They were always community-minded people.  Empress continues to be an active member of the Knutsford Women's Institute.
    Over the past winter the Knutsford W.I. have been doing upgrades to the 140+ year old schoolhouse which today is used as a community hall. 
   A couple of years ago history panels are prepared to tell the story of Knutsford...here's photos I took of them last Sunday. Another panel is being prepared to tell the story of our great-great-grandfather Capt. John Silliker, who along with his bother and others cut the O'Leary Road through to Knutsford about 1855 and were amount the earlier settlers of the area.  The Sillikers had 600-acres and donated the lumber and land to build the Methodist Church, with cemetery, and the School.
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West Cape School

June 27, 2017, 5:06 pm
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     This school is one of the oldest in western Prince Edward Island.  It's located at the end west end of the O'Leary Road ( Route 142 ) beyond where it intersects with the shore road ( Rte. 14) on what is now called "School Road" and sits on a small parcel of privately owned land.  
      The school number was 39 and predates the Knutsford and Springfield West Schools as in the history of the Sillikers, who were amoung the first to arrive in Knutsford in 1855, it states: "The family travelled seven miles to WestCapeSchoolin an ox cart."
 I took these photos on Mother's Day, 2017

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Bayview School House 1914

July 13, 2017, 6:53 am
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     I came across this image of the Bayview School House on Earles Picture Restoration PEI Facebook page https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/18955051_642407189299075_6267121119158367607_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=e8caff90f520f1cdb043753ad5129f5b&oe=59FB3AF5
     The school was located on the north side of Simpson's Mills on the Simpson Mill Road in Bayview (near to Cavendish).  Arnold Smith recalls accompanying his father George to deliver the winter's firewood here around 1961.  
     The school was closed in the early 1970's then bought by the Ellis family who moved it Cavendish behind the Cavendish Tourist Mart - the Ellis' built on an addition use it as a cottage today.

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