100th Anniversary of Radio Broadcasting on PEI - A Talk by Ian Scott

100th Anniversary of Radio Broadcasting on PEI

A talk give by Ian Scott at Government House, Charlottetown, PEI

April 14, 2021

The MC for the event was broadcaster Kathy Large,
 a granddaughter of Keith S. Rogers.

Your Honour, Ladies & Gentlemen

It is a great honour to be here today at the location of a ground-breaking event, one century ago; the day when an international broadcast received here, provided proof that the emerging technology of long-range radio transmission had arrived.

The event we are celebrating, we now understand, was the dawn of broadcast media and all that has followed.  

Ian Scott

Betty Rogers Large or her sister Marianne both 2^nd generation broadcasters might ask us at this point to, “Put on your pretenders boys and girls.” And if you will, we can almost imagine the excitement building as the group on March 11, 1921 gather in the Provincial Technical School at the Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital on the Fanningbank estate, with Keith Rogers, their instructor, as they hear that first broadcast come faintly and haltingly, and then as clear as a whistle. Young veterans of the Great War in the prime of their lives, some carrying visible and invisible scars of war, some beginning new jobs as they turn dials on homemade equipment and eventually succeed at tuning in a musical broadcast from similar students at Union College in Schenectady, NY. 

Keith Sinclair Rogers (1892-1954)

A week later – the excitement builds as local dignitaries included the mayor, premier, most of the Provincial Cabinet,  several judges and business owners gather for a repeat performance this time using a gramophone horn so they don’t have to share headphones. Harder to connect this time -- but  with special greetings included for the PEI audience from New York it was a success. That same week, was equally exciting for the Rogers family as they welcomed the arrival of their son, a welcome brother for their two girls.

Wireless already existed in Charlottetown with teenage “hams” like Rogers on Morse code keys from at least 1907. Internationally, wireless Morse code saved 706 passengers from the sinking Titanic in 1912. Dots and dashes out of thin air were amazing enough, but it was a bold discovery that sent sounds through the air across vast distances.

The first scheduled broadcast happened in Pittsburgh the prior year as fledgling stations launched – ones that could even reach an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

For Keith Rogers it began as a young militia member over homemade transmitters at the age of 15. By 17 he was issued a license for a wireless station at the Charlottetown Armoury in 1909, (just across Government Pond.) The same year he worked as wireless operator aboard the icebreaker Minto. At Camp Petawawa, age 19, he and his squad built the first portable wireless equipment for the Canadian Army. Portable meant two horses to carry, and four men to move it.

Keith S. Rogers at Camp Petawawa

Rogers like his father worked in the family insurance business and followed his dad as commanding officer of the No. 12  Signalling Unit, a local militia group. WW I saw his young family posted to Halifax, with regular forces as signals officer at Citadel Hill. After surviving the 1917 Halifax Explosion, his wife and two daughters, were sent home while Keith remained in Halifax.

On PEI, Government House was turned over to the war effort, as a convalescent hospital for veterans with construction of the Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital next door for additional beds. As the post-war focus turned from convalescent to rehabilitation, it housed the Provincial Technical School.

Keith Roger at war end, was beginning to see the potential for wireless as a civilian means of communication. An amateur radio operator, with military experience, his skills were soon put to use by the Provincial Technical School at Fanningbank teaching a course on electricity and wireless radio, where he also formed a radio club. It was Friday – as the group turned their dial and located the signal from far away - the broadcast from students at Union College in Schenectady, NY.  Union College campus station, WRUC, exists today - available worldwide, streaming on the internet.

Several months after the 1921 broadcast, Rogers began broadcasting himself locally with announcements and phonograph music. The Charlottetown Radio Association was formed to gain a club license in 1923 so members could broadcast using that license. Walter Burke started broadcasting church services from Trinity Church in Charlottetown on Jan 25th 1925, as the second church in Canada to do so. Rogers was in business selling radio receivers to the public, and wanted to add broadcasting to the operation so in 1925 the first commercial radio license in Eastern Canada was issued to his radio business with the call letters CFCY. He planned for TV broadcasting on PEI, and his family completed that after his death, with CFCY-TV signing on the air on July 1, 1956. His life’s work of connecting people through “the Friendly Voice of the Maritimes” was realized and these stations continue today with Maritime Broadcasting the current owners of CFCY/Q93 and CBC purchasing the television operations.

Broadcasting united Islanders in new ways as they shared the music of Don Messer and his Islanders with all the country. It  relayed educational programs, farm broadcasts, radio drama, music, news and weather (not to mention Hockey Night in Canada), to the region. Long-range forecasts made a huge difference to farmers cutting hay, and were a matter of life or death to fishers hauling traps long before alternatives emerged.

From early church broadcasts to the current level of content available through myriad broadcast and streaming platforms, the Island has been an active participant in a new era that began at Fanningbank, one hundred years ago. 

The Honourable Antoinette Perry
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island

See CBC coverage including video from the event.

100th Anniversary of Radio Broadcasting on PEI - Background Material

100^th Anniversary of Radio Broadcasting on PEI

Background Material

by Ian Scott, March 2021

An international broadcast of music received by a local group in Charlottetown, provided proof that the emerging technology of long-range radio transmission had arrived; it marked the dawn of broadcast media.  

On March 11, 1921 gathered in the Provincial Technical School at the Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital on the Fanningbank estate, with Keith Rogers, their instructor, were a group of students that received a broadcast of concert music. Young veterans of the Great War in the prime of their lives, some carrying the scars of war, some beginning new jobs turned dials and then succeeded at tuning in a musical broadcast from similar students at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

A week later, local dignitaries gathered for a repeat performance, this time with special greetings included for the PEI audience from the New Yorkers.

Wireless already existed in Charlottetown with teenage “hams” like Rogers on Morse code keys from at least 1907. Internationally, wireless Morse code saved 706 passengers from the sinking Titanic in 1912. The discovery that sounds could also be sent across vast distances using radio waves launched a new era of broadcasting.  

The first scheduled broadcast happened in Pittsburgh the prior year as fledgling stations launched – ones that could even reach an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Keith S. Rogers at Camp Petawawa age 19

For Keith Rogers the interest in radio began as a young militia member with Morse code over homemade transmitters at the age of 15. By 17 he was issued a license for a wireless station at the Charlottetown Armoury in 1909, the same year he worked as wireless operator aboard the icebreaker Minto. At Camp Petawawa, age 19, he and his squad built the first portable wireless Morse code equipment for the Canadian Army. Portable meant two horses to carry, and four men to move it.

Keith Sinclair Rogers

Rogers like his father worked in the family insurance business and followed his dad as commanding officer of the No. 12  Signalling Unit, a local militia group. WW I saw his young family posted to Halifax NS, with regular forces as signals officer at Citadel Hill. After surviving the 1917 Halifax Explosion, his wife and two daughters, were sent home while Keith Rogers remained in Halifax.

On PEI, Government House was turned over to the war effort, as a convalescent hospital for veterans with construction of the Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital next door for additional beds. As the post-war focus turned from convalescent to rehabilitation, it housed the Provincial Technical School.

Keith Roger at war end, was beginning to see the potential for wireless as a civilian means of communication. An amateur radio operator, with military experience, his skills were soon put to use by the Provincial Technical School at Fanningbank teaching a course on electricity and wireless radio, where he also formed a radio club. It was Friday – as the group turned their dial and located the signal from far away - the broadcast from students at the first college radio station, Union College in Schenectady, NY.  Union College campus station, WRUC, exists today - available worldwide, streaming on the internet.

Several months after the 1921 broadcast, Rogers began broadcasting locally with announcements and phonograph music. The Charlottetown Radio Association was formed to gain a club license in 1923 so members could broadcast using that license. Walter Burke started broadcasting church services from Trinity Church in Charlottetown on Jan 25th 1925, as the second church in Canada to do so. Rogers was in business selling radio receivers to the public, and wanted to add broadcasting to the operation so in 1925 the first commercial radio license in Eastern Canada was issued to his radio business with the call letters CFCY. He planned for TV broadcasting on PEI, and his family completed that after his death, with CFCY-TV signing on July 1, 1956. His life’s work of connecting people through the airwaves of “the Friendly Voice of the Maritimes” was realized and these stations continue today with Maritime Broadcasting the current owners of CFCY/Q93 and CBC purchasing the television operations.

Broadcasting united Islanders in new ways as they shared the music of Don Messer and his Islanders with all the country. It  relayed educational programs, farm broadcasts, radio drama, music, news and weather (not to mention Hockey Night in Canada), to the region. Long-range forecasts made a huge difference to farmers cutting hay, and were a matter of life or death to fishers hauling traps long before alternates emerged.

From early church broadcasts to the current level of content available through myriad broadcast platforms, the Island has been an active participant in a new era that began at Fanningbank, one hundred years ago today. 

Honouring 100 years of broadcasting on PEI at a ceremony held at Government House in 2021

See more about the event with pictures.
See CBC coverage including video from the event.

The Bible Christian Church - from Benjamin Bremner, An Island Scrapbook

From Benjamin Bremner, An Island Scrap Book - Historical and Traditional, published by Irwin Printing, Charlottetown: 1932, page 109

The Bible Christian Church in Prince Edward Island, under the pastorate of the Rev. Francis Metherall.  The latter was appointed by the Conference of the Bible Christian Connection of Cornwall, England, as a missionary to this Island in 1831 and set sail for the scene of his labors in 1832, arriving after a voyage of nearly two months in Bedeque, from whence he journeyed to Winslow Road where he began his labors as a missionary.  

Among the people in this vicinity were the well known families of Ayers, Esserys, Bryentons, McCoubreys, Yeos, Pickards, Holmans, Turners, etc. Mr. Metherall labored earnestly and successfully for many years and established connections in almost all sections of the Island except for Charlottetown. He died June 1875 at the age of 84 years having been 53 years in the ministry. The Charlottetown connections were established in January 1857 with Rev Cephas Barker as its first minister.

The large building on Prince Street nearly opposite Trinity United Church was the home of the congregation and was dedicated in August 1858.  

The following were the Charlottetown ministers up to the time of the Union of the four divisions of the Methodist Church: 

• Revs. Cephas Barker -1856,
• John Chappell -1865, 
• George Webber -1870, 
• William S Pascoe -1870,
• John Harris -1870,
• S H Rice -about 1880.  

(Mr. Pascoe was considered by the townspeople generally as a prince among preachers.  Of course it is well known that the United Church of Canada was not in existence until many years later.)

The Church building was afterwards disposed of and renamed The Lyceum, being thenceforth used as a theatre or for public entertainment, political meetings, ect, the lower front being turned into a grocery conducted by the late Michael Duffy Sr.

Referring to Mr. Duffy I’m reminded of a rather good story concerning him and the late lamented Rev William Dobson DD.  The latter was for some time pastor for the First Methodist Church, living in the parsonage where the Heartz Memorial Hall now stands.  Between Dr. Dobson and Mr. Duffy a very warm friendship existed and many a merry quip passed between the two, for Methodist Minister and a very devout Roman Catholic.  The story tells how Dr. Dobson stepped into Duffys shop one fine morning and asked “Duffy, can you give me a good Protestant turnip?” The other replied “Faith I can” and going to the cellar soon returned with a very horrible specimen, full of hairs, cleavages, and divisions and placing it in front of his reverence said “There ye are” Dr. Dobson responded with “Duffy you had me that time.”!

'This is Acadie' - P.E.I. celebrating 300 years of French being spoken

By Daniel Brown (daniel.brown@theguardian.pe.ca) Local Journalism Initiative Reporter and published in The Chronicle-Herald on May 08, 2020 Updated: May 09 at 6 a.m.

Acadian historian Georges Arsenault holds a photo of his maternal grandfather's grandparents, Léon Poirier and Marie Bernard. they were married in Tignish in 1846 and had 16 children, six of whom died in infancy. In 1915, they celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary, and Léon died later that year at the age of 96. He was a great-grandchild of Pierre Poirier. Photo credit - Daniel Brown/Local Journalism Initiative Reporter 

Pierre Poirier had a loaf of bread to thank for getting him out of prison.

It was the summer of 1755. Recently wed and living near what's now Sackville, N.B., Poirier was one of many Acadian men in his region invited to a British-run information session regarding land.

Georges Arsenault, a P.E.I. historian and descendent of Pierre, confirmed that this was just a ploy.

"Once they got there they were imprisoned," he said.

The men were held at Fort Lawrence, N.S. during what was the beginning of what has since become known as the Great Upheaval. For about three months, Pierre waited to be forcibly deported, while his wife, Marguerite, fled to escape the same fate.

They were just some of the many early Acadians whose plight played a role in shaping the Maritime provinces. This year, Prince Edward Island is celebrating the tricentennial anniversary of these first French settlers.

"In 1720, that's when the first settlement was opened on the Island," Arsenault said. "French has been spoken on the Island for 300 years."

It might mark the first time this centennial is recognized on P.E.I. That's because it wasn't until the 1960s that the French language started to become more celebrated across the Maritimes – a shyness that may have been influenced by the hardships their ancestors faced, Arsenault said.

Léon Poirier and Marie Bernard got married in Tignish in 1846. They had 16 children, six of whom died in infancy. In 1915, they celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary, and Léon died later that year at the age of 96. He was a great-grandchild of Pierre Poirier. - Contributed

Pierre was unable to be with Marguerite during his incarceration, but some of the prisoner's wives were occasionally allowed to bring them food. With a little planning, one of these women baked her husband a large, inconspicuous loaf of bread.

Little did the British soldiers know that she had hidden a knife inside of its crust.

The prisoners used it to dig a 12-foot tunnel underneath the walls of their confinement. On a stormy October night, about 85 of them, including Poirier, managed to make their escape and avoid being deported,

He went straight home to his village to reunite with Marguerite, who by this point was about eight months pregnant with their first child. But alas, the community was deserted.

Having grown up in the community of Abram-Village, Arsenault has always valued his family's history. He believes it's important to know because it wasn't as well documented when he was in school.

"When I went to school, I couldn't speak French," he said.

His years of Acadian research led him to publish a few books, his most recent being Illustrated History of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island. It was written to act as a resource for people wanting to learn more about this 300-year journey, he said.

"There's about a quarter of Islanders who claim they have French ancestry," he said. "I'd like to encourage people to read up on the history."

During Pierre's journey, he met some Mi'kmaq people in the area, who Arsenault notes had resided in the Maritimes well before the colonies. They informed Pierre that the people of his village fled to Cocagne, N.B.

"That's where it's told Pierre found his wife," Arsenault said.

Having reunited at long last, they arranged to set sail for the colony of Île Saint-Jean as refugees. The same month Pierre escaped incarceration, Marguerite also gave birth to their daughter, Rosalie.

They settled there until 1758, when they were forced away to escape deportation a second time. Eventually they were able to return and settle down for good, but many Acadians still found it hard to secure land and stable work because of their language, Arsenault said.

DID YOU KNOW?
Many P.E.I. communities inherited their names from the early French settlers, Arsenault said. These include:

Morell
Crapaud
Souris
Bay Fortune
While some used to have French names but have since been translated, such as:
St. Peter's Harbour (Havre-Saint-Pierre)
Wood Islands (Île à Bois)
Cape Bear (Cap à l'Ours)
North River (Rivière du Nord)

Alvina, left, and Alcide Bernard lead the parade and showcase their Acadian pride during the Acadian Festival in Evangeline in 1992. - Photo credit, Georges Arsenault/Special to The Guardian

Today, Île Saint-Jean is known as P.E.I., and French is looked at much differently.

P.E.I. Lt.-Gov. Antionette Perry is part of a committee planning celebrations for this year’s Acadie 300 Î.-P.-É. While it has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be events offered to some extent soon, likely via virtual platforms, she said.

Like Arsenault, she is a descendent of Pierre Poirier.

"We're all connected some way, there," she said.

That's because, according to Arsenault's research, Pierre was likely the first to change his surname as it was difficult for the English to pronounce. He changed it to Perry, Arsenault said.

Pierre and Marguerite's lineage still lives on today. Their children were among the pioneers of Tignish, and many of their descendants made names for themselves, whether as the first Maritime Acadian to be ordained a priest or the first elected into the House of Commons.

Acadian on both sides, Perry is grateful for the sense of freedom she feels in living her heritage on P.E.I., where the French language has since become a vibrant and lively part of Island life, she said.

"I know that I would not be able to live my culture as fully as anywhere else in the world. Because this is Acadie, after all."

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GUEST OPINION: Many connections to Holland

As published in The Guardian on June 23, 2020

This clipping from Jan. 26, 1943, shows Princess Julianna of the Netherlands at her Ottawa home with her children. - islandnewspapers.ca - Contributed

Travel restrictions this spring limited overseas activities that would have involved Islanders as part of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Holland, yet it remains important to recognize the close connections that exists and grows between the Island and Holland. Within agriculture alone, studies show that 53.8 per cent of Prince Edward Island's immigrant farm population in 2006 was from Holland.

Canada and Holland also share a unique royal connection as our respective heads of state have been primarily women for the last century and a half. In Holland, three queens have served in the role for 133 of the last 140 years while Canada has seen two queens serve for 132 of the last 183 years.

During the Second World War, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, third daughter of Princess (later Queen) Juliana and Prince Bernhard was born in Ottawa cementing a bond with Canadians celebrated annually with tulips. In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs in gratitude for Canadian hospitality in sheltering the future Queen Juliana and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Out of this grew the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa. Festival founder and photographer Malak Karsh appreciated that royal gesture of thanks, "The gift of tulips brought colour back into a very gray world. We celebrate this gift, the spirit of spring renewal."

P.E.I. also played a war time role as CFCY radio station in Charlottetown was the location Princess Juliana used in 1941 to convey a message of hope to Dutch citizens at home as well as a birthday greeting to her mother in Britain. The recorded message was intended to bolster hope for the Dutch Resistance and those attempting to survive the harsh Nazi occupation. After the message was recorded at CFCY, it was broadcast over shortwave radio while the Dutch government-in-exile, headed by her mother Queen Wilhelmina, was based at Stratton House near Piccadilly in London.

Unlike the Vichy French government which in defeat accepted a policy of collaboration with Hitler, Holland was the third largest oil producer in the world and crucial war resources were at stake. When Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer proposed a return to the Netherlands and a similar approach, Queen Wilhelmina realized that collaboration with Nazi Germany would mean the oil-rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) would be surrendered to Japan and fuel the Axis war machine. A puppet government she would not accept; as head of state she replaced key members with a cabinet prepared to lead their occupied nation from a distance.

Lt. Col. Keith Rogers was the founder of CFCY and the story of the 1941 royal recording session was told by his daughter, Betty Rogers Large in her award-winning book Out of Thin Air in 1989. Full disclosure – Betty was my mother-in-law and after learning of the story, I sent a copy of her book to the Dutch royal family and received an appreciative response.

Many special tulips have been in bloom across the province thanks to the Liberation 75 organization which exists to generate celebration ideas related to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Europe. The colourful displays across Canada have been a fitting way to remember the personal sacrifice of more than 7,600 Canadians who died in the Netherlands as well as those in the larger European operations. After a long fall and winter of 1944 leading to the renewal of spring in 1945 tulips have become a symbolic reminder of how Canadians liberated Holland following the “hunger winter” when even tulip bulbs were resorted to as food for residents.

Great respect for Canadians continues today in Holland with various school events; family connections abound both from the 1,886 Dutch women who married Canadian soldiers after the liberation, and also among those families who found a new beginning in Canada through immigration since.

Veseys in York previously honoured the 70th anniversary with 100,000 tulip bulbs given to organizations across Canada for planting. John Barrett of Veseys commented at the time that, "We're sort of hoping to try and keep that memory alive in Canada to the same degree that it's been kept alive in Holland." Hopefully this year will bring more awareness of the connections between Holland and Canada that grew from such difficult circumstances. Kudos to everyone working hard to commemorate this milestone.


Ian Scott is a past executive director of the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation who lives in Charlottetown.

GUEST OPINION: 1918 and Now - The Spanish Flu

Published: May 11, 2020 -- by The Guardian, Charlottetown, PEI -- Ian Scott, Guest opinion

The Spanish influenza epidemic on P.E.I. led the provincial health officer to close schools, cancel worship services and prohibit public gatherings. A notice was published on page 2 of the Oct. 26, 1919 Guardian edition. - Contributed photo 

Guardian coverage has mentioned two interrelated topics: past epidemics (April 8), and the strong leadership bringing us through the current time. Readers may also be interested in knowing that 400 Islanders died with the pandemic influenza of 1918 (aka the Spanish flu). As many Islanders died within months on peaceful P.E.I. as had died in four full years of the First World War – the bloodiest war the world had yet seen.

Perhaps a few names, first published by Boyde Beck, will put a face on those Islanders who died in the 1918 pandemic.

Nan Downey, a nurse at the Prince Edward Island Hospital, died nine days after falling ill; she was just 28 and before it was over, two doctors and several more nurses would die. Frank Cameron went to work at the Bank of Commerce on Monday but was too sick to work by Wednesday and dead by Sunday, at age 25. Mrs. Horace Smith a mother of five, died as her husband lay recovering from war wounds in England. James Trainor the well liked, 36- year-old barber, left a wife and five children. Multiply those four tragic stories 100 times and you get a sense of the family impact in every community across our close-knit province.

Unfortunately some local voices that could have supported the push to defeat the disease tended to diminish its impact and considered it just another seasonal flu or bad cold. We now know the enemy was an H1N1 virus that would eventually kill in various waves at least 50 million people worldwide. To get a sense of how deadly, one isolated Alaska village saw 72 of the 80 adult inhabitants dead in five days.

Fast forward 102 years and the leadership we see across our country in public health officers who include many talented women with great ability and knowledge. They are an example of choices made for careers in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) which require advanced degrees and years of study, something that was not always available to young women. Dr. Bonnie Henry in B.C., who has deep Island roots, is the daughter of Bill and Susan Henry of Charlottetown and is a graduate of Dalhousie. Cutting her teeth working for the World Health Organization and Toronto Public Health with SARS, Ebola, and H1N1, she is widely recognized for her leadership in B.C.

Our own Dr. Heather Morrison’s career as a UPEI graduate and Rhodes scholar was well covered in Jim Day’s article on April 25. The two continue to play exemplar roles in “bookending the country” if you will, and are examples of successful career choices in STEM fields that are making a difference for the public. Thankfully, with the benefit of science and public health policies built on knowledge of pandemics in the past, we are in good hands – but don’t forget to wash yours.

Ian Scott is a past executive director of the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation who lives in Charlottetown.

Operating room at the old Charlottetown Hospital [pre-1920]. Contributed photo/Public Archives and Records Office, Acc2320/32-12 Photo by SaltWire NetworK

Happy Birthday to the Three Charlottetowns

Guest Opinion published by The Guardian April 23, 2020

City of Charlottetown - 123RF Stock Photo 

Amid the isolation that has become our daily reality it would be easy to forget one event that ended municipal isolation 25 years ago this month when on April 1, 1995, the greater Charlottetown area saw the largest set of amalgamations it has ever known. 

 Following years of consultation and a review by former long-serving deputy minister, Lorne Moase, the challenge of a multitude of competing municipalities in the capital region was resolved with the creation of three new communities from 16 or more dissolved municipal structures. 

Rather than a single mega city like Halifax which brought the entire Halifax County and all municipalities within it into the Regional Halifax Municipality one year to the day later, Moase wisely advised that the new amalgamation would be broken into three separate units defined by the rivers that divide Charlottetown Harbour into three major landmasses. 

Thus was born Charlottetown South, Charlottetown West, and the City of Charlottetown on that spring day a quarter century ago. Local sensibilities south and west suggested that unique names chosen locally rather than ones stated in legislation would be best thus the new councils undertook as their first task to find names their electorate felt comfortable with and thus was reborn the name Stratford which was a very old name in that area. 

Cornwall also opted to rename their community with a familiar name from the area at the heart of the new community. 

Neighbourhood names continue to live on and provide an important link to all the communities of the past as we acknowledge the 300th anniversary of European settlement around Charlottetown Harbour this year. 

Three cheers for the three capital area communities reborn 25 years ago and best wishes for the years ahead as they continue to show themselves to be strong municipalities that can work together for the common good.

Ian Scott, 

Charlottetown