Oliver and I went for a walk last night after supper: I wanted to show off my new PirateBox so we took his laptop and browsed around for a while looking for something interesting.
We settled on Prince Edward Island: The England of Canada, a 1941 pamphlet from the IslandLives.ca collection that lives on the PirateBox. We opened up the PDF and found that there was a photo of Province House as it once was:
As we were just around the corner, we took a little walk and sat down and played a game of “spot the differences”:
A few pages later we came across a photo of Queen Street, taken from the corner of Queen and Richmond, and did the same “then and now” comparison (who knew that Woolworth’s was there before it moved up the street!):
Prince Edward Island: The England of Canada is a great little read; you can grab it from IslandLives.ca or from the downtown PirateBox.