Time for a little drafting this evening and I’ve put in a little more work on my mapping project to trace the PEIR west from St. Peters to Morrell. The only map I could find was in the 1877(?) PEI… Read More ›
PEIR Souris Subdivision
St Peters 1910 update
I just finished piecing together the fire insurance map from the Island Imagined website for St. Peters (south). It was a lot of fun to draw. Just for the fun of it I plotted out a PDF of the finished… Read More ›
St. Peters, PEI – 1910 map started
This is only a start but I’m working my way through St. Peters based on a 1910 fire insurance map found on the Island Imagined website. I still have some work to do on this one but wanted to start… Read More ›
Reply to Mr. Swinyard’s reports on the Prince Edward Island Railway
I just found a copy of John Boyd’s April 19th, 1875 reply (report) to the Swinyard report on the PEI Railway. I figured I’d open this blog post to make some notes from the article for future reference. First here’s… Read More ›
PEIR Flag Station Drawing
As I mentioned earlier, this weekend I had the pleasure of reading Gone to the Bay. The book includes a neat photograph of the flag station at Midgell on page 216. From the looks of that photograph it would appear… Read More ›
Prince Street 