"from the singular appearance of this place I called it the gates of the rocky mountains ...:" - Meriwether Lewis, July 19th 1805
The cliffs you see to the left from this sign are not the gatesLewis referred to, but you can . . . — — Map (db m314111) HM
William Clark ---- Meriwether Lewis
" my friend ... If therefore there is anything...in this enterprise which would induce you to participate with me in it's fatigues, it's dangers and it's honors, believe me there is no man on . . . — — Map (db m312538) HM
First part:
Fragmentos del mensaje de la ley 1.638.
Creadora de la plaza Espana. Mendoza.
No existe pueblo alguno de los innumerables que se alzan en los paises Americanos de habla espanola que no guarde con la madres . . . — — Map (db m79835) HM
It is called Cerro de la Gloria (1,000 meters above sea level) due to the fact that it hosts on the top the commemorative monument of the Army of the Andes. It was inaugurated on February 12, 1914.
It was originally known as "Cerro del Pilar." . . . — — Map (db m79322) HM WM
After the abolition of the Ordnance Department in 1855 the building was used as officer’s recreational quarters. Sold in 1906 it has been used as a private residence and offices. — — Map (db m261077) HM
Monument abstract This monument, a pathway of Independence, chronicles the foundation years of Barbados’ nationhood. Here, in this space renowned for recreation, learning and historical experience, we collectively celebrate 50 years of . . . — — Map (db m135176) HM
This building was constructed circa 1795 as Commissariat for the British Garrison. Converted to the Garrison Theatre in 1893. Acquired by the Barbados Electric Supply Corporation in 1908. Renovated during 1986 75th year of operations. . . . — — Map (db m261728) HM
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter of 21 May 1917
The Commisioner’s work was guided by fundamental principals which were established in 1920. That each of the dead should be commemorated individually by . . . — — Map (db m135051) WM
Engineer’s Office & Quarters
Built circa 1720
The oldest ‘house’ within the Garrison. Known today as the ‘Bush Hill House’ or the George Washington House and Museum. George Washington stayed here in 1751. Acquired for the ‘New’ Garrison . . . — — Map (db m134545) HM
The Barbados Cruising Club Salutes the Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow On this Errol Barrow Day, January 21, 2018, the Barbados Cruising Club dedicates this memorial at our Aquatic Gap, Pebbles Beach home, to our first Treasurer and . . . — — Map (db m135034) HM
Hastings Barbados You Are Entering A UNESCO World Heritage Property Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison exhibits an important interchange of human values in the diversity of African, European and other ethnicities, and the confluence of . . . — — Map (db m135028) HM
1939-1945 To the enduring memory of those Barbadian Merchant Seamen who gave their lives in the Second World War Alle, E SS Inanda ∙ Anderson, FW SS Traveller ∙ Ashby, V SS Africa ∙ Atkins, G SS Traveller ∙ Bancroft, D SS . . . — — Map (db m135152) WM
Near This Spot Rest the Remains of Fourteen Soldiers And one Married Woman of the 36th Regiment who were killed by the destruction of the Barracks and Hospital during The awful visitation of the hurricane. August 11th, 1831. This Monument is . . . — — Map (db m135031) HM
Royal Artillery Barracks Built in 1812 Known today as Stafford House. The second storey arches were added after much of that floor was damaged during the 1831 hurricane. Originally used by the Artillery, this building was also later used to . . . — — Map (db m135030) HM
Sir Grantley Herbert Adams Q.C., C.M.G. 1898-1971 Leader of the Government and Premier of Barbados 1946-1958 Primer Minister of the West Indies 1958-1962 “He was ready at the time when the people needed a leader who would be both the . . . — — Map (db m135032) HM
The Barbados Military Cemetery This site is dedicated to the men and families of the British Forces who died serving in Barbados 1780 to 1906 Thanks to Barbados good military defences no enemy has ever landed on its shores Today this . . . — — Map (db m135035) HM WM
The Main Guard Built in 1804 Still known today as The Main Guard At the central point of the Garrison, this building was also used for courts martial, with prisoners held in the guard house at rear. Sold into private hands in 1906, it became . . . — — Map (db m135029) HM
It was built with the capacity to house 400 soldiers to relieve the overcrowding conditions of the Garrison. Purchased by the Government in 1912 for use as apartments and later as government offices. — — Map (db m261071) HM
It served as the main hospital ward. After the abolition of the Ordnance Department in 1855 the building was used as officers’ recreational quarters, including a library and between 1868-1893 the Garrison Theatre. Sold in 1906, it has been used as a . . . — — Map (db m261073) HM
These cannon, recovered from the area of St Georges Cay, date from the late eighteenth century. They are typical of the cannon used in the successful British defence of St Georges Cay against a Spanish Naval flotilla on 10th September 1798 — — Map (db m265753) HM
Corozal Town Central ParkThe Central Plaza of Corozal Town has been used for various activities and events since the town was founded in 1849. Social, cultural, sporting events and even a brief occupation in 1870 by Marcus Canul, General of the . . . — — Map (db m105064) HM
Corozal Town HallIn 1952 the Corozal Town Hall was constructed. It was financed by the Baron Bliss Trust Fund. The large concrete building dominated the physical landscape with only two other concrete structures, the Catholic Church and the . . . — — Map (db m105070) HM
Fort Barlee Fort Barlee was constructed in Corozal Town by Lieutenant Governor Frederick Palgrave Barlee (pictured here) in the late 1870's. The fort was built to protect British
interests and Yucatecan settlers in Corozal during the latter . . . — — Map (db m105062) HM
Her Majesty’s PrisonThe mid to late 1800's was unquestionably a period of unrest and instability along the Rio Hondo and Corozal Town. A substantial migration of Yucatecos
fleeing the Caste Wars in Mexico led to an increase in population and . . . — — Map (db m105069) HM
House of Culture/Public MarketArriving from England by ship in 1885, the cast iron frame of an intended market was assembled and a building was constructed along the shoreline close to the public pier. Inaugurated in 1886, the Corozal Town . . . — — Map (db m105090) HM
Parish Office/Priest’s Residence/Xavier College
The priest's residence or "El Convento" was constructed in early the 1890's. Its construction is attributed to Father Gillett who was one of the English Jesuit priests who came to Belize in the . . . — — Map (db m105066) HM
Schofield ResidenceThe Schofield residence was constructed in the early 1880's when mature mahogany was still thriving in the forests of northern Belize which ensured its longevity into the 21st century. It has survived many hurricanes . . . — — Map (db m105068) HM
Royal Complex N10-17 to 29The “Royal Complex” comprises structures N10-17 through N10-29 which can be dated from the Middle Late Classic (700-800 CE) through the Late Postclassic Period (1000-1100 CE). Excavation of these . . . — — Map (db m105101) HM
Stela 9This monument was erected at the end of the Middle Classic Period (600-800 CE). Stela 9 depicts Lord “Smoking Shell” holding a double headed ceremonial bar diagonally across his chest. The headdress depicted on this . . . — — Map (db m105099) HM
High Temple N10-43The Structure N10-43, 33 meters in height, is the tallest structure at the site of Lamanai and is also one of the largest Preclassic structure in the Maya area. The initial phase of construction for structure N10-43 began in . . . — — Map (db m105098) HM
Antillean Manatee
Trichechus manatus
Manatees can easily move between salt water and fresh water.
The gestation period is 13 months, usually giving birth to one calf.
Harvest Caye has developed a Manatee Conservation Program to . . . — — Map (db m239944) HM
[Panel 1] Mandado Construir em MDCCCXCIX pelo Exmo Senr. Jose Cardoso Ramalho Júnior, Governador do Estado do Amazonas.
[In English: Construction Ordered, 1899, by His Excellency, Mr. Jose Cardoso Ramalho Junior, Governor of the State . . . — — Map (db m26407) HM
As alturas não me intimidam. —Santos-Dumont, Foz do Iguaçu, 24 Abril 1916.
Posso dizer-ihe, Frederico Engel, que estas maravilhas em torno das cataratas não podem continuar a pertencer a um particular (Santos–Dumont) . . . — — Map (db m26178) HM
Getting On and Off the Island
For as long as there have been islands, getting to and from them has been a concern. This was certainly true in Prince Edward Island.
In 1827, small and sturdy ice boats equipped with runners began to . . . — — Map (db m310251) HM
Some of the History of the Old Pioneer Cemetery and Saint Peters Church Seven Mile Bay. St. Peters Parish, Seven Mile Bay extends from the Aboiteau Bridge to beyond the mouth of the Dunk River, including all that extensive coastline and all the . . . — — Map (db m309758) HM
George Uglow Pope
1820-1908
George Uglow Pope (popularly known as G.U. Pope) was born on the 24th of April 1820 in Bedeque.
He started studying the Tamil language, one of the classical languages, at the age of 17 and in 1839, . . . — — Map (db m309715) HM
The Lighthouse was constructed in the Year of 1864 by David MacFarlane and John Rankin. This is the 4th Lighthouse to be built on Prince Edward Island as a Navigational Aid. The House was built in 1872.to accommodate the Lighthouse Keepers and their . . . — — Map (db m309755) HM
Acadian Departure
When Ile St-Jean was again under French authority in 1749, increased attention was given to developing the colony. Colonel Louis Franquet, an engineer, toured the Island in 1751. He made many recommendations for . . . — — Map (db m309080) HM
Acadian Settlement
Prince Edward Island was known as Île-St-Jean when it was a colony of France in the early 1700s. It was first settled by three hundred people brought from Havre de Rochefort in France in 1720 They spread up the . . . — — Map (db m308980) HM
Arrival And Legacy
Highlanders from the Isle of Skye and Wester Ross arrived in Prince Edward Island to a great challenge. The Acadian Forest was unbroken to the shores of Orwell Bay apart from small clearings remaining from French . . . — — Map (db m309855) HM
Clann ‘IcNeacail
Le gras ar Tighearna Iosa Chriosda agus deasachadh fiúghantach ar Tréith Uasail, Tomas Dubhghlas, an Coigeamh larla an Sailcire, tha sinne, Clann an Siol Neacail, a dh' imrich dha 'n tir seo air an t-soithich "Polly" dà . . . — — Map (db m309078) HM
The 5th Earl of Selkirk, philanthropist and colonizer, who believing that the hardships of the Scottish Highland peasantry could be alleviated only by emigration, came to Canada in 1803 and established a large settlement in this area.
He was . . . — — Map (db m309155) HM
Built in 1845 and lit for the first time on December 4th of that year, the Point Prim lighthouse is the first and oldest lighthouse on Prince Edward Island and one of only a few round brick lighthouses in Canada
the wooden shingles were . . . — — Map (db m310687) HM
Spem · Successus · Alit
In honor of the arrival on these shores of our ancestors from the Isle of Skye Scotland, aboard the "Skye ship Polly" on Sunday August 7, 1803.
's e seo eilean an àigh — — Map (db m308906) HM
Saint Paul, a la Pointe-Prim
1752-1758
Ce monument commemore la Paroisse Saint Paul d'autrefois, et les habitants Acndiens et Ecossal dont les restes furent inhumés en ce lieu.
Thin earn so air a thogal mar chuimhneachan . . . — — Map (db m308969) HM
Scottish Settlement
Thomas Douglas became the 5th Earl of Selkirk in Scotland at 28 years of age in 1799 and one of 16 Scottish Peers in the British House of Lords just three years later. He had a good education and an enlightened . . . — — Map (db m309853) HM
The Belfast Historical Society
The Belfast Historical Society was founded on 26 March 1976. It is dedicated to preserving and promoting interest in the history of the Belfast District of Prince Edward Island. Lord Selkirk would be . . . — — Map (db m309856) HM
The Croft House
Home of the Belfast Historical Society
The Croft House was built in 1972 by Mary (Stuart) and Gordon Sage in the style of a traditional Highland 'crofter's cottage and served as a gift shop until the 1980s. The . . . — — Map (db m309858) HM
On the night of 8th June, 1942, Angus MacLean was piloting his Halifax bomber towards the Krupp armaments factory in the heart of Nazi Germany. His plane was hit by both flak and night fighters, and Angus and his crew were forced to bail . . . — — Map (db m309847) HM
The Selkirk Settlement
The settlement founded in this area by Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk, was the first systematic attempt to direct to British North America the tide of dispossessed Highlanders which had been flowing . . . — — Map (db m308905) HM
This Summer Will Be Different
In 2024, bestselling Canadian author Carley Fortune added to the long-standing tradition of Island-inspired artistry with her novel This Summer Will Be Different. A story of love. friendship, and . . . — — Map (db m310690) HM
Angus MacLean was a good man, proud of his ancestral Maclean Hebridean roots; a traditionalist who embraced positive change. He was a war hero; a very successful politician at both the Federal and
Provincial levels - a Federal Cabinet Minister and . . . — — Map (db m308977) HM WM
This plaque commemorates the former site of the Church of Scotland
Est. in Belle River in 1876
Moved to Lord Selkirk Park Eldon, June 2000
Erected by the Cook, Gillis & Hancock families in memory of loved ones buried in the adjacent . . . — — Map (db m312787) HM
CNR Station
Borden's original railway station, built in October 1916, was located on what is now known as Downing Street. At the time, the community was called Carleton Head. The railway played an important role connecting communities from . . . — — Map (db m309717) HM
Confederation Bridge
The Confederation Bridge joins Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick; it is 12.9 km long and is the longest bridge in the world over ice covered water.
The bridge is one of Canada's top engineering achievements of the . . . — — Map (db m309639) HM
Ice Boats
The ferry service to PEI had a very illustrious history. The service began with iceboats from Capte Traverse PEI. The Ice boats started in 1827 and the crossing was twelve miles. The cost at the tie was $5.00. If you were a male . . . — — Map (db m309738) HM
Commemorating the bicentennial of the historic landing of the United Empire Loyalists - August 4, 1784.
William Schurman of New Rochelle, New York who earlier had assurances from the land claim board, brought from Shelburne, Nova Scotia . . . — — Map (db m310247) HM
This school was rebuilt in about 1886 using structural timbers of an earlier school building built on the same site in about 1840 and it served the community of Lower Bedeque (six km. from here) until 1962. It then fell into dereliction until it was . . . — — Map (db m309808) HM
This plaque commemorates the designation of Brighton Beach Front Range lighthouse under the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act.
Cette plaque commémore la désignation du phare d'alignement antérieur de Brighton Beach en vertu de la Loi . . . — — Map (db m308726) HM
Prior to 1990, this land contained the Weeks Coal Yard; swamp land; railroad tracks and parking spaces. In the summer of 1990, the Charlottetown City Council resolved to change the zoning of this municipal property from industrial to parkland and . . . — — Map (db m308858) HM
Rena McLean Veterans Garden
This garden commemorates the previous use of this site as a convalescent hospital for veterans returning from The Great War (1914-1918).
The hospital was named the Rena McLean Memorial Hospital in . . . — — Map (db m308730) HM WM
Trans Canada Trail
In 1992, the bold dream of a national Trail linking Canadians from coast to coast to coast was launched on Prince Edward Island.
This plaque, proudly unveiled by the Honourable Robert Ghiz, Premier of . . . — — Map (db m309083) HM
This superb Picturesque villa is one of the finest homes built in pre-Confederation Canada. It was constructed about 1839 for politician and administrator T. H. Haviland Sr. (1795-1867). Basic to its design is the late 18th-century British . . . — — Map (db m309277) HM
King Square is one of the five squares laid out in the 1771 plan of Charlottetown. Over the years much effort has been made to beautify the space. In 1884 during the first celebration of Arbor Day of 30 were planted in this square.
During the . . . — — Map (db m309803) HM
Redesignated
Lieutenant-Colonel
J. David Stewart, DSO, ED, CD
Armoury
Approved by
Acting Commander Canadian Army
29 april 2021
J. David Stewart was born in the small community of Georgetown, PE on 21 Aug 1910 and later moved to . . . — — Map (db m308734) HM
In 1857, Daniel Brennan a local Charlottetown businessman, donated property located on the corner of Sydney and Weymouth Street to the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame. The nuns had been asked by Bishop B.D. Macdonald to come to the Island . . . — — Map (db m308857) HM
Dedicated to the Memory of the Men and Women of The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC) and tis predecessors who have served their country during war and peacetime.
Unveiled by His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, . . . — — Map (db m308733) WM
A Staunch Supporter of Confederation
Born in Bedeque, PEI, on May 29, 1825, William Henry Pope, was a lawyer, land agent, journalist and politician. Delegate to both the 1864 Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences on Confederation, . . . — — Map (db m309810) HM
Ardgowan was the home of William Henry Pope from 1854 to 1873. Lawyer, land agent, editor of the Islander newspaper and Father of Confederation. Pope was at the centre of the political and educational controversies of his era. . . . — — Map (db m309212) HM
This cairn was built to commemorate the establishment of the Charlottetown Experimental Farm fifty years ago, and to honour those who laboured to make it of value to agriculture in Prince Edward Island and all Canada.
(On the same cairn, to . . . — — Map (db m309213) HM
What's in a name?
The name "Ardgowan" comes from the Highland Scots Gaelic word, "ard," meaning hill or high place, and "gowan" which is the Lowland Scots' word for the common daisy flower. The reason for the name choice was never . . . — — Map (db m309811) HM
Born in De Sable, Lane grew up in California where he was educated and called to the bar in 1886. Having worked in journalism and in law, he entered politics as a Democrat. Appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1906 he was the . . . — — Map (db m310158) HM
Born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1743 and emigrated from London in 1775 on the ship Elizabeth which was shipwrecked off Lot 11. He married Eliza Townshend and they had eight children. Was agent for Clark & Campbell and secretary to Governor . . . — — Map (db m312780) HM
Museum Celebrates All Things Anne
Author Lucy Maud Montgomery describes farmhouse as the "wonder castle of my childhood."
Montgomery was born at her family home in New London and was raised by her grandparents in Cavendish. But . . . — — Map (db m312786) HM
The Changing Landscape
Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province, but it is also the most densely populated with about half of the Island cleared for human use. The patchwork of fields you can see from here is highly . . . — — Map (db m309832) HM
St. Peters Harbour Lighthouse
The St. Peters Harbour Lighthouse sits alone in the dunes today. Once, it sat on a wharf in a busy fishing port named Havre St. Pierre and later, St. Peters Harbour. On the spot where you are now . . . — — Map (db m309835) HM
Farmers’ Bank of Rustico
Under the leadership of Rev, G.-A. Belcourt, pioneer missionary in the West, his parishioners erected this a former building to house one of the first people's banks in Canada. Chartered in 1864, and . . . — — Map (db m312781) HM
Parc National du Canada de l'Île-du-Prince-Edouard
De cette vue panoramique surplombant la baie de Rustico, on peut voir au loin vers le nord-est une partie du paysage côtier du parc national du Canada de . . . — — Map (db m312784) HM
Welcome
Welcome to Rustico - the oldest Acadian settlement on Prince Edward Island.
We invite you to explore our historic buildings and discover the stories hidden in their walls. Find out about the Acadians of Rustico, how they . . . — — Map (db m312782) HM
Stanhope Cemetery
Here lie the people of the past deep within this ground are over 160 years of history buried with ancestors of Islanders today. Courageous first settlers of the early 1880's, they worked long and. hard to carve . . . — — Map (db m310624) HM
Stanhope Community Cemetery
The old Stanhope Community Cemetery was once part of an active farm community.
Nearly 200 years of history are buried deep in the red soil. Scottish settlers who carved farmland out of forest, and . . . — — Map (db m309830) HM
Bushing the Bay
From the days of the earliest settlement until the 1950's when modern snow plows began to keep the area roads open on a regular basis, the bay before you was used as a winter road. This practice involved some risks . . . — — Map (db m309834) HM
The Gale of 1851
The forenoon had been particularly balmy. Schooners had sailed into the shallow waters in search of mackerel and cod. But darkness found the vessels trapped in the stillness close to land. There was no breeze to . . . — — Map (db m309943) HM
Skip Suzanne Caudet and her teammates Kelly Higgins, Robyn MacPhee, Stefanie Richard, and Carol Webb, curling out of Summerside's Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, captured the Gold Medal at the 2001 World Junior Curling Championships held in . . . — — Map (db m309636) HM
Summerside is fortunate to have many historic buildings in its downtown neighbourhood as living testament to the tastes and skills of previous residents. In 2003 a heritage district was designated by the City under its Heritage Conservation Bylaw . . . — — Map (db m309840) HM
Summerside is fortunate to have many historic buildings in its downtown neighbourhood as living testament to the tastes and skills of previous residents. In 2003 a heritage district was designated by the City under its Heritage Conservation Bylaw . . . — — Map (db m309844) HM
Summerside is fortunate to have many historic buildings in its downtown neighbourhood as living testament to the tastes and skills of previous residents. In 2003 a heritage district was designated by the City under its Heritage Conservation Bylaw . . . — — Map (db m309842) HM
Summerside is fortunate to have many historic buildings in its downtown neighbourhood as living testament to the tastes and skills of previous residents. In 2003 a heritage district was designated by the City under its Heritage Conservation Bylaw . . . — — Map (db m309843) HM
1783 - 1983
To Commemorate the bicentennial of the United Empire Loyalists and Disbanded troops who settled on the Isle of Saint John following the American Revolution.
These courageous loyal refugees contributed greatly to the development . . . — — Map (db m309635) HM WM
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
CWH Anson
(left panel)
Casualties from #31 Charlottetown
Agar, J. F., AC1 Anson crash January 12, 1942
Beauman, Ernest, LAC Anson crash January 12, 1942
Bell, K. . . . — — Map (db m310621) WM
The beginning of the tourist trade in this province and probably the first tourist establishment in the Dominion of Canada, and its founder Mr. James L. Holman.
The Holman name has been long associated with the founding and development of . . . — — Map (db m309633) HM
The early history of Summerside is closely associated with the existence of a public wharf. Green's Wharf, completed circa 1840, was later known variously as the Town Wharf, the Government Wharf and finally Queen's Wharf. Commercial establishments . . . — — Map (db m309642) HM
In Memory of Sir Ira Enman
May 9, 1922-July 21, 2021
Born in Harmony, Prince Edward Island
WWII Veteran Dispatch Rider
Knighted by France in Summerside, March 2017
For his service Juno Beach D-Day Invasion in France
Also served . . . — — Map (db m310625) WM
Irony of History: England, First Nation to Salute the Acadian Flag
The Acadian flag was adopted on August 15, 1884, by delegates attending the second Acadian National Convention in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island. The following . . . — — Map (db m310619) HM
This plaque is dedicated in recognition of the many community enhancing projects and contributions of military and civilian personnel at R.C.A.F. Station/C. F. B. Summerside
1941-1992
We cherish your love & friendship . . . — — Map (db m310622) WM
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