July 22, 2011
Croft house
Lord Selkirk Provincial pk PEI Prince Edward Island, canada
After taking the ferry, MV Belfast from Pictou, Nova Scotia across the Northumberland Straight, docked at woods Islands, PEI.
Ordinarily the prefered travel pattern on a loop is to go counter - clockwise. But being birddogged to Lork Selkirk park 20 miles west was a good choice.
Lord Selkirk park is next to a golf course. The park is named forLord Selkirk who brought a colony of Scots from the Isle of Wight, Scotland to settle PEI in 1803 with 800 people from Scotland.... this is the historical origin of the Scot migration to PEI. They arrived on 3 ships... the Dykes, the Polly, and the Oughton to settle the new world.
An earlier colony of French had settled here ... this was Acadia. That colony met with disaster after 6 years. Lord Selkirks colony survived.
There are still family farms of the pilgrims right down the road from here. Nicholson, Ross... old families still farming the land here.
The park / camp was empty. Clean. and a good rest stop. Next morning when leaving... saw the white house and went to check out. This is the motherlode of PEI history. The curator of the Belfast PEI Historical society...this museum house, Audry... talked about an hour of all the early PEI history of the Acadians and Lord Selkirk Scots colony. Really good!!! Stop here for great information and history of PEI !
Artifacts of the early pioneer families had donated many items of significant PEI history... including a wonderful family bible.
Across the street -- in another post soon-- was the early graveyard of the French Acadian colony that ended tragicly. Their graves were marked with local stones -- no inscriptions-- on the graves.
Onto Prim Point lighthouse.
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July 22, 2011
Croft house
Lord Selkirk Provincial pk PEI Prince Edward Island, canada
After taking the ferry, MV Belfast from Pictou, Nova Scotia across the Northumberland Straight, docked at woods Islands, PEI.
Ordinarily the prefered travel pattern on a loop is to go counter - clockwise. But being birddogged to Lork Selkirk park 20 miles west was a good choice.
Lord Selkirk park is next to a golf course. The park is named forLord Selkirk who brought a colony of Scots from the Isle of Wight, Scotland to settle PEI in 1803 with 800 people from Scotland.... this is the historical origin of the Scot migration to PEI. They arrived on 3 ships... the Dykes, the Polly, and the Oughton to settle the new world.
An earlier colony of French had settled here ... this was Acadia. That colony met with disaster after 6 years. Lord Selkirks colony survived.
There are still family farms of the pilgrims right down the road from here. Nicholson, Ross... old families still farming the land here.
The park / camp was empty. Clean. and a good rest stop. Next morning when leaving... saw the white house and went to check out. This is the motherlode of PEI history. The curator of the Belfast PEI Historical society... this museum house, Audry... talked about an hour of all the early PEI history of the Acadians and Lord Selkirk Scots colony. Really good!!! Stop here for great information and history of PEI !
Artifacts of the early pioneer families had donated many items of significant PEI history... including a wonderful family bible.
Across the street -- in another post soon-- was the early graveyard of the French Acadian colony that ended tragicly. Their graves were marked with local stones -- no inscriptions-- on the graves.
Onto Prim Point lighthouse.
