Monday, March 1, 2010

Island Archives

Island Archives (islandarchives.ca) is a wonderful digitized collection of Prince Edward Island resources, many of which were out-of-print but thanks to the ongoing efforts of UPEI to provide material from its collections in digital form are available.

Here are some examples:


Chapters in our Island Story
by William Lawson Cotton. Charlottetown, 1927. Revised and republished.


Trinity United Church, Charlottetown, 1809-1964 Glimpses of glory and grace / by Flora Smith Rogers. Charlottetown, P.E.I, 1964.


The Island family Harris : letters of an immigrant family in British North America, 1856-1866 / prepared and edited by Robert C. Tuck. Charlottetown, P.E.I, 1983.


Out of thin air / by Betty Rogers Large and Tom Crothers. Charlottetown, P.E.I, 1989.

PEI Historic Places

  • A growing resource for those interested in Prince Edward Island's history is the provincially operated peihistoricplaces.ca
  • As well the same resources are being uploaded to the national site Canadian Register of Historic Places which operates historicplaces.ca

100 Years of Church Broadcasting on Prince Edward Island

On the 25th of January 1925, a new era arrived for those who were unable to attend church services, with radio broadcasting of a Sunday serv...