Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Best Laid Plans: Fire Insurance Mapping on Prince Edward Islandx

There is a great article by John Boylan of the PEI Public Archives and Records Office on fire insurance maps on PEI that gives an overview of this super resource which is available thought the efforts of the good folks at The Island Archives Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Post Cards of Prince Edward Island


This super new collection of PEI postcards from the collection of the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation are a great addition of Island visual resources online.Visual resources of great value when preparing presentations on Island history topics and these are a great source for research.

The collection of 532 images are located on the museum's Flickr site. Great to see these resources being shared.

Philip James (1800 -1851) missionary on Prince Edward Island -- his description of conditions in 1835

Although the names of Rev. Francis Metherall and Rev. Richard Cotton are better known for their early role as missionaries on PEI I came ac...