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

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...