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Books I am reading

28 Sunday Feb 2016

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Beria, France, Louis XVI, Russia, Stalin, Stefan Zweig, USSR

Well I am finishing the great big book on Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore, a lesson on why the Soviet Union collapse, it was doomed from the beginning. I remember a professor in one of my Political Science classes in University telling us that when Karl Marx wrote his book Das Kapital, he was thinking of industrial Germany not agricultural Russia. What has been depicted in movies and books as a glorious revolution by the people was in fact what we see today in Syria with ISIS. The government of the Tsar collapsed in 1917 when Nicholas II abdicates, the country is at war with Germany and all authority disappears. A group of adventurers styling themselves as revolutionaries “Bolsheviks” take over by simply killing anyone who might have been connected with the Tsarists regime. Russia then falls into a long 10 year Civil War which ends in 1928, after all opponents have been summarily shot, Lenin has died of cancer and Stalin grabs all the power for himself by shooting is old comrades and will launch purges against all manner of imaginary enemies, no one is safe, including his own family and the family of those comrades who managed not to be purged. Stalin’s wife who suffers from mental illness, shoots herself because she cannot live with this monster,  his reaction is How could she do this to me, he then proceeds to kill family members who he thinks conspired against him. Millions will die this way in an unending blood bath which will last until 1939.

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So how or who is running the country, the industries, the army etc. well no one really, Stalin appoints incompetent people most of whom cannot read nor write but are Commissars in charge of everything and their first job is to shoot any worker or manager who does not produce ridiculous quotas of goods no one wants nor could use because the production is so shoddy. Famine ensues and millions die in vast areas of Russia.

As the war in Europe approaches, Stalin makes a secret pact with Hitler to divide Europe and the World. Stalin is secretly hoping that the Nazis will destroy the capitalists in France and England and will not attack Russia. He will make a more public pact to divide the world in 1945 in Yalta with Truman and Churchill, the beginning of the Cold War. Poland is sacrificed in the deal and 10% of its population will be killed, the country divided and disappear, the ultimate plan was to kill all the Poles, Stalin and Hitler hated them.

The same applies for Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.   Finland manages to save parts of its territory after a ferocious battle against the Soviets. Because of the purges of Stalin, the Soviet Army has no Senior officers in command, no modern armament, Stalin is still in favour of a 19th century style army with horses and old cannons, unable to understand that Germany has modern weapons and no one uses cavalry anymore and certainly not against tanks and machine guns. The Soviets have no planes, while Germany has a modern air fleet. The few planes Russia has are so poorly built that they are described as flying coffins. Again Stalin does not want to hear about it, his battle is against his own family, relatives and anyone he thinks might oppose him, a death sentence for many. When Hitler finally attacks Russia in 1941, in the first 48 hours despite the quickly advancing German army and aerial bombardments of cities, pleading by army officers like Zhukov to do something, Stalin refuses to believe the war is on, he thinks it is only a provocation by a lone German General, Hitler his friend would never do that to him. It is all conspirators around him who created this mess, he cannot be responsible for this disaster.

At the time of the pact with Nazi Germany, Stalin to please Hitler and later after 1945 for various reasons will purge (kill) all the Jews from the Soviet government, all of whom are committed Bolsheviks from 1905. They form a majority of all senior comrades in most government departments and in diplomacy. His henchmen is Lavrenti Beria who will outlive Stalin by one year and he himself will be arrested and shot by the new Soviet ruler Nikita Khrushchev in 1953. The master executioner was the peasant Vasily Blokhin who was in charge of all high profile execution and torture, he killed thousands and had a special squad to ensure efficiency in mass murders, he will commit suicide in 1955 after being disgraced by the new Soviet Leader.

So this is Josef V.Stalin, a Georgian peasant, who came from a dysfunctional family, poorly educated, suffering from various mental problems, his a reign of crimes, depravity and massacres against his own people, there was no communist ideal, no program, no policies, just a lot of purges of people to ensure that no one would ever topple him. Millions died at the hands of his secret police. If the purges stopped once Stalin died, the idea of a Soviet Union was forever doomed, no one, not Khrushchev, not Leonid Bhreznev, no one was able to reform the government and make social progress. Until it finally collapsed in 1989. In other words 72 years of utter misery and mismanagement, so much for the glorious revolution of the people. Problem is no one bothered to invite the people to their own revolution.

The book is well researched but after a while the reader is nauseated with the utter cruelty and nonsense of such a regime which brought nothing to Russia.

The other book I finished reading was the biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette by Stefan Zweig, a very detailed work, giving us a graphic picture, one I had not encountered before of the last 15 years of the Ancient Regime, the story of a monumental failure of the State, of an incompetent King Louis XVI and a Queen Marie-Antoinette who was unable to understand her role being a selfish, spoiled woman and the dangers around her despite many warnings. Missed opportunities at many crucial moments in history. The old Monarchy is swept away by a Bourgeois uprising again done in the name of the people and arranged or staged managed by the brother of the King, the Duke of Provence and his cousin Duke of Orleans, the problem is they (the people) are not aware of it. Only to be replaced by an Imperial regime under Napoleon I and a restoration of the same old monarchy in 1814. A Republican regime is only born in France in 1871, some 82 years later.

I am now going to read another of Stefan Zweig’s books The World of Yesterday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Bog

26 Friday Feb 2016

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Wonderful history of Charlottetown and PEI to conclude African history month in PEI.

Isaac L. Stewart

G’day there!

To cap off Black History Month, I thought this week we would veer away from focussing on the subject of slavery and turn our attention instead to an exploration of ‘the Bog’, where could once be found Charlottetown’s black community. Home to freed slaves and their descendants throughout the 19th century, it was a region in the west-end portion of the city’s original 500 town lots, bordered by Euston, Pownal, Richmond, and West streets. Here’s a graphic to give you a visual sense.

Present-day satellite imagery of Charlottetown. The Bog falls within the encircled area. Present-day satellite imagery of Charlottetown. The Bog falls more or less within the encircled area.

Recognize the area? I imagine you probably do. Today, a large section in the centre of it has been physically altered by the construction of provincial government offices (Shaw, Sullivan, and Jones buildings),as well as a sizeable parking lot, begun in the mid 1960s, and the streetscape in general has…

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So we return….

26 Friday Feb 2016

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moving, new vistas, Ottawa, PEI, winter

We drove this morning back from Charlottetown to Moncton New Brunswick over the sea bridge and down Hwy 16 and then 15 west to the Airport for our flight to Ottawa. The Hwy 16 and 15 on the mainland is pretty boring, basically forests on either side and numerous signs telling you to be careful of Moose crossing, at 2+ tons in weight you do not want to hit one, it would be fatal for you. The weather in the Maritime is Spring like and the snow is gone, our 10 days was showers and sun and temperature between +4C and +14C. The photo header is what welcomed us home, can you believe it, NO! how can this be it’s Springtime everywhere but here. Another 10 months of Winter for Ottawa at -11C, there is something seriously wrong with this picture even Siberia gets Summer time, but then again Ottawa has the reputation of being the coldest Capital in the World.

Anyway we now have 3 very serious prospects for rental and all in the 1500 to 2000 sq feet range. Ceilings between 12 to 18 feet in height, if you always lived with 8 foot ceilings your life is changed in a transcendental way by ceilings at 12 to 18 feet.

Now comes the fun of cleaning house and getting rid of all the stuff we do not want to move, books, CDs, furniture, clothing, etc..

Tomorrow we are going to retrieve the puppies Nicky and Nora who spent their 7th Birthday respectively at Dachshunds Boot Camp. I am told that Nora loves to chew on Antlers now. This goes well with her personality as a Hunting dog it runs in her family. They are both scheduled for a grooming in the coming week.

Already March and my 60th coming up. Well it was a wonderful 10 days in PEI.

 

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If you do not like…

24 Wednesday Feb 2016

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Boomer Gallant, CBC, Charlottetown, PEI, Urspo, Weather PEI

Here on PEI the old saying if you do not like the weather just wait and it will be different in 20 minutes does apply. The Island being in the Gulf of St-Lawrence and facing the open Atlantic, we are subjected to winds and sea currents and their effect on the weather patterns. Storm can come and go or simply not materialize at all despite getting a warning.

We have been on the Island now for 2 weeks and the weather has been early Spring like despite the fact that we are in February and there is at least officially one more month of Winter left. This Winter has been very mild both in Ottawa and elsewhere, I really don’t mind. The weatherman in PEI is Boomer Gallant, he is on the CBC daily, wearing baseball hats and windbreakers to match.

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Kevin “Boomer” Gallant is one of the most recognizable faces in Prince Edward Island. He was born and raised in Charlottetown and is in his 24th year as weather host on CBC Television’s supper-hour news program – CBC News Compass.

Along with delivering the latest weather reports, Boomer also hosts a daily segment in CBC News Compass to promote community events and fundraisers.

Apart from his work at CBC, Boomer is well known to many Maritimers for the sixteen years he spent calling harness races at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

I also believe that Boomer is a client of the famous Jungian shirt maker extraordinaire UrSpo of AZ  https://sporeflections.wordpress.com   Boomer sports his shirts.

On another topic, a dear friend of mine recently was speaking of the price of wine in restaurants. I often wonder how restaurants can charge 3 times the price of a bottle of wine you can find at the Liquor store. Now remember if you see on the wine list a price of $30 dollars for a wine bottle it does not mean it is worth it or is any good, it is just the restaurant profit margin. In Canada price of beer, wine and spirits is dictated by Governmental bodies and tightly controlled, it is also heavily taxed. So a bottle of wine imported from Italy at a cost of $7 dollars arrives on the shelf of the Government Liquor Store at $16 dollars, the restaurant in turn will sell it for $48 dollars. People think of this must be good wine because it is expensive. NO it is still a $7 dollar bottle of wine which means it is a good table wine nothing more.

I find that you cannot put a dollar value on wine or liquor based on the price in the store because the price is subject to a strong mark-up. Better to read up in trade magazines what is said about the wine and its producer, read the critic and see if it is a good year or a bad one for such and such a wine  and don’t forget the most important, do you like it? If not it is not worth anything.

The same applies to Scotch, in many Steak house and other restaurants, half-ounce of Single Malt Scotch sells for $10 to $20 dollars, this is a total rip-off but the owners are appealing to the snob factor and they know how their clients fall for it. I remember a time when a drink was 2 ounces minimum, to maximize profits it is now only half ounce servings and the price has gone up substantially. Price has nothing to do with quality, maybe that is why so many restaurants are struggling to keep their clientele.

Often people put the wrong emphasis on the wrong thing, value on material goods in our consumer society, we are pre-conditioned by marketers to think that you must do this to achieve life goals. Success is defined by material goods, cars you drive and flashy knick knacks, real estate, etc. Canadian Banks love to tell you that you need a minimum of $1 million dollars in savings alone just to retire at 65. Given the personal average debt of Canadians, most do not even have $2000 dollars in an account and have personal debts they cannot repay, so how will they retire if ever.

It is best to put value on personal growth, education, friends, focusing on what matters in life, like good health and peace of mind.

 

 

End of stay

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

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By-the-bay restaurant, Canada., fishing, North Rustico, PEI, Rustico

Well today was a beautiful sunny day and we went to North Rustico, there are in fact 5 settlements, I would not called them villages because it is too small, with the name Rustico, all one after the other, you have Rustico, North Rustico, Anglo-Rustico, Rustico Ville and Harbor Rustico. The name Rustico is a derivation of Rassicot. A French fisherman by the name of René Rassicot gave the area the name Rustico because he would come and fish here all the time. It is a beautiful area on the Atlantic side of the Island, only 25 minutes from Charlottetown on Hwy 6, more like a country road. The Native Mikmaq have been settled in the area for the last 6000 years according to archeologists.

Most present day inhabitants are descendants from the Acadians, this is an Acadian area, many have French family names. We were alone for stretches on the road, it is very peaceful and beautiful countryside, rolling hills of red earth, lots of pine trees and beautiful farms.

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In North Rustico the main industry is fishing but this being late Winter, all the boats were on the shore out of the water and all the fishing shacks were closed, however one coffee house and one restaurant were open, there is not fast-food in this area, it is all hearty and home cooked, all the businesses are run by families, no big corporations here. Even in Charlottetown, the fast food industry has a hard time outside of the two shopping malls, you simply do not see them. Starbucks had to close downtown because people resented having to pay $3 and $5 dollars for a coffee. Most prefer to go next door, to support someone they know, a local and get a good cup of coffee for $2.25, consumers voting with their feet.

We stopped for lunch in North Rustico at this little restaurant run by a Mr. Doiron (Acadian name) called the By-the-Bay Family restaurant. The lady serving told us the special was a Hamburger sandwich, this is NOT a burger by the way, did we want fries or mash potatoes, comes with peas and carrots and a bit of creamy coleslaw.

So what we got and I knew what it would look like, basically two slices of white bread stuffed with hamburger meat, not a patty, just browned meat and covered in gravy. It was quite good. The gentleman sitting with his wife at a table next to us, noticed that we obviously were not from the area, was it our licence plates on the rented car saying Nova Scotia or the fact that the word Ottawa was stitched on my fleece shirt. People here on the Island talk to everyone, people say hello, they wave at you. No they do not know you but they are just being friendly. You have to answer back, don’t do like in Ottawa and put on a mean face and ignore them, that would be rude. This fellow was also from away, not a native of PEI, to use a PEI ism. He came from Thunder Bay in Ontario and was living in Rustico now. We have met quite a few people who came to PEI from other parts of Canada to live, study or just retire.

After lunch, we went all the way to the end of the road where all the boats and the fishing shacks were, the tide was low and at the end of the harbour its the open Atlantic, you felt the cold in the air despite being a brilliant sunny day.

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We then drove back to Charlottetown, again an easy drive but this time we had to follow some school buses depositing the kids at various farms and homes on the way.

So our stay in PEI is coming to an end, we fly back Friday to Ottawa and to the puppies who have been at Boot Camp this past 2 weeks. The trainer say they are doing very well and Nicky is a really good boy, Nora is a little needy and needs to know where the humans are at all times. They are going to the groomer, they look like wild fur balls.

Well we know we like it here and we can live here no problems. It is a much simpler life, slower and time is measured differently. People smile a lot more and are friendly.

 

 

 

A walk on the boardwalk

22 Monday Feb 2016

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Beaconsfield, Charlottetown, Fanningbank, PEI

Living in the old 500 block section of Charlottetown means you are near the water, usually within 5 blocks, one popular area is Victoria Park and Fanningbank. We are only 4 blocks away so we decided to walk over on this sunny day. We were waiting for our appointment to view a house just around here. All the houses in this area are from the period 1797 to 1835, either stone or wood clapboard. Here are some photos of what we saw.

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On the water’s edge Beaconsfield once a private home now a museum it is across the street from Fanningbank.

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Fanningbank the Official Residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.

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The view is the entrance of the Hillsborough river the harbour of Charlottetown, in the very far distance the strait of Northumberland and the mainland, New Brunswick. The strip of land on the right of the photo is Rocky Point and Port La-Joye the old French fort.

As we continued walking on the boardwalk we come to the North river and its light house

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The river here is frozen but the ice is thin and cracked everywhere, not safe to step on at all. The shore is also rocky with the red sandstone everywhere, the earth is also red and the mud is a dark red colour.

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Some of the beautiful homes of the neighbourhood. It would be nice to live in this area, who knows?

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Through the ice from Pictou to Georgetown 1905

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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Canada., ice, PEI, winter

The mainland of Canada has been cut off from Civilization (PEI), a wonderful article of life in 1905 when only the ice breakers in Winter could cross the Strait of Northumberland between PEI and the mainland. What an adventure that was, click and read the article

Source: Through the ice from Pictou to Georgetown 1905

Intense Culinary Scene

20 Saturday Feb 2016

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Charlottetown, cuisine, culinary, farmer, Farmers, Food, market, PEI, Seafood

While visiting the Island Province you become aware of the intense devotion people have here to all things culinary. The best quality and freshest ingredients, all natural, no chemicals and no hormones etc. finds its way in the description of many products you find here in the Farmer’s markets who do not compete with the big Food Store chain but present themselves as separate and independent, striving for quality at a reasonable price while being of the highest quality instead of mass produced and processed foods imported from far away at very high prices. You can sense the real pride in quality food production here since a family name is attached to it and nothing phony about it, somewhat reminiscent of the European traditions of place of origin denomination.

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When I saw the doughnut maker I immediately thought of my friend Dr. SPO in AZ. I know he would love this.

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Angelika, the famous German baker with her goods.

This morning we went to the Farmer’s Market on Belvedere, the place was packed with people whereas the SuperFood Store just across the street was nearly deserted. At this time of the year you can buy Award Winning Cheeses like the Clothbound Avonlea cheddar or Blue d’Acadie cheese, home made meat pies or fruit pies from the farmer’s, real farm eggs which are noticeably bigger than the big food store ones. Lots of root vegetables, bacon cut Scottish style, sausages, fowl, turkey, chicken which looked like Capon, goose, duck, seafood, fish etc. again at far better prices than any big food store chain if they carry such items. Because the Island has a sizeable immigrant population from Lebanon-Syria, Africans from West and Central Africa and various Europeans, Dutch, Germans, everyone brings specialty cuisine. I was looking at one African Caterer presenting various dishes, not what you usually see in the USA which has nothing to do with Africa and is mostly Caribbean, a different cuisine all together, very tasty.

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Here is the new batch of Absinthe, $48. a bottle, 72.5% proof from Deep Roots Distillery, PEI.

How to drink Absinthe This spirit can be enjoyed on its own in a glass, either chilled or at room temperature. However, just as with ancient tea ceremonies in some countries, there is a particular ritual to follow if you want to experience absinthe in the traditional manner. Although there are dedicated “tools” available for the ritual (available soon at our Distillery), they are not essential for taste or enjoyment. A shot of Absinthe is poured into a clear glass. A cube of sugar is placed in the bowl of a spoon and held over the glass. Then ice cold water is poured over the cube and allowed to drip into the glass. The ideal balance between Absinthe and water is one part spirit, three parts ice cold water. We hope you enjoy this very unique experience. As with all our spirits, we have taken great care and pride in the ingredients we select and the process we used to craft this first small batch of Absinthe and to make it available to you for your enjoyment.

Deep Roots Distillery (Father and Son) produce Absinthe in the old original recipe style with worm wood, the improved technique of production is non poisonous as was the old recipe 150 years ago. http://deeprootsdistillery.com/428-2

There was also a lot of producers of craft beer which is sold is big jugs. There are also several very good bakers of breads and pastries.

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I had an excellent Espresso coffee, a very sophisticated friendly scene, not what one would expect and we are discovering a lot of very nice things here on the Island. We really miss for nothing. These are just a few pictures but there was so much more to see and did I mentionned the potatoes? Well they have the blue and the pink, meaning that the meat of the potato is that colour when you slice into it, a specialty of the Island to go with a nice fish dish.

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Yes folks only .99 Cents for your Lobster dinner.

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There is still a Ferry to cross the Strait to New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, am not sure it is still $1. dollar per car or .20 cents for walk-on passenger, we also have the sea bridge since 1997. 

A Harsh Sentence: African-Islanders, Slavery, and Criminal Justice

20 Saturday Feb 2016

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Here is another part of the history of Africans on PEI in the 18th Century by Isaac Stewart, PEI History guy.

Isaac L. Stewart

G’day there!

Well, here we are at the penultimate post for Black History Month – time flies! Over the past two weeks, we’ve looked at the origins of the province’s African-Island community, as well as the institution of slavery as it once existed here. Today, we’ll continue on with the theme of slavery and examine the lifestyle led by the Island’s enslaved in the late 18th and early 19th centuries largely through the prism of criminal justice (I apologize up front for the lack of imagery, and will try my best to keep things shorter as a result).

I think it goes without saying that the life of a slave anywhere, and at any period in history, was one fraught with hardship, and you’d be hard pressed to come up with many (or any) examples of people forced against their will into servitude who at the same time managed to…

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On a sunny Friday

19 Friday Feb 2016

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1864, Brandy, Canada., Charlottetown, history, PEI, Rum

 

On Dorchester Street is an attractive wood framed double tenement located on the corner of Dorchester Street and Union Street in a very old section of Charlottetown. It is unclear who built the home, or the date it was built, but the property was granted in 1779. The building has been a home for much of its existence but evidence suggests that it was also a tavern at one time.

It had the usual stipulation, that a house be erected on the property within three years, but whether a home was in fact erected on the property, is not clear. When the land was sold for taxes in 1790, and again in 1793, to John Brecken, a prominent Loyalist merchant who was known to have built houses for rental purposes, the transaction yielded only shillings. The low price of the land and the buyer, suggests that no dwelling existed on the property. Twelve years later when the property was sold to James Robertson, there was a home on the property and it sold for eighty pounds.

Records show that in 1827, the home was seized from three men, John MacDonald, Donald MacEachern and John Hughes, for non-payment of import duties on wine, rum, brandy and other spirits. With a list like that, it becomes abundantly clear that the building was used as a tavern.

The sheriff sold the building to Robert Gray junior, the son of Robert Gray a prominent office holder and member of Charlottetown high society. Gray later sold it to James D. Haszard. Both appeared to have used the home as a rental property. The building remains a home to this day.

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Now the history of Charlottetown is soaked in Liquor, most important political meetings were generously watered with rum, brandy and fortified wines. The Cross Keys Tavern stands on Queen Street it is the Terre Rouge Restaurants nowadays but this is where the Founding Fathers of Confederation met and had quite a few discussions on what was to become Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald who would become our first Prime Minister who was known as a formidable gin drinker, the more he drank, the more eloquent he became. Something many historians and fellow politicians of his time documented.

The Legislature of PEI also met in the Tavern and the proprietor was appointed by the Assembly as Clerk of the deliberations, taking notes with one hand and pouring drinks with the other.

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The Cross Keys Tavern on Queen Street, today a restaurant and Olive oil shop.

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The Owen Connolly building now a pub.

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Blue Fin Tuna by Gérald Beaulieu 

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This is the oldest brick house in Charlottetown 1832. Absolutely beautiful inside with all the architectural features of the Georgian Era. It is one house with 2 doors, a huge place. The docks and marina of the Harbour are behind it.

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Local 343 (telephone number of the house in 1920) on Water Street is a wonderful restaurant with terrace at the back over the harbor. Chef Emily Wells food is wonderful.

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View from the park and marina up Great George Street. This is the wharf where the Father’s of Confederation arrived by boat from the mainland in 1864.

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The Charlottetown Harbor every Summer the Cruise ships come and dock here.

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