The electoral district of Third Queens, of which Orwell was part, was home to the second worst election riot in Canadian history. About 500 Scottish Presbyterians and Irish Catholics spent the afternoon exercising their franchise with sticks, and at least three people were killed. Dr Beck has done an in-depth study of this devastating event […]
The story of the family whose home inspired Anne of Green Gables and how that literary connection enriched and upended their lives. In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables, the novel […]
My Life in Cabbage tells the story of a long-standing love affair with nature’s most perfect vegetable. It also explains how that love affair turned into a best-selling cookbook. Speaker Bio: Ann Thurlow is a former writer/broadcaster with the CBC. She has also worked in communications for government, an editor for Acorn Press and dozens […]
The very bright and gifted Eliza MacKenzie of Flat River PEI attended PWC in Charlottetown for a couple of years, taught school in Pinette, but decided that she wanted to do more in life for the people of PEI. In 1904 she graduated from Dalhousie with a degree in medicine and by 1906 she as […]