In 1916 the Prince Edward Island government built a dredge to dig mussel mud from St. Peter’s Bay. It also built a large wharf out into the bay to accept railway cars and by incorporating railroad haulage into the grand… Read More ›
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Marie, Midgell and St. Peters
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 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 ›
Harvesting Mussel Mud in PEI
Okay, so I never expected I’d get as interested in this industry as I think I am getting but here I go again. All of this started with a photograph of a narrow gauge train on a wharf in Midgell,… Read More ›