Charlottetown is a compact, tidy provincial capital with a lot of charm. The central city is dominated by a square containing Province House and the modern Confederation Centre (performing arts, library, art gallery). Along Grafton and Queen there is commercial activity and the City Hall, to the south-east of the square is a cluster of churches and the Basilica. Lovely houses with names of the original owner affixed to the front line the central streets.
I first went to Charlottetown in 1982 while hitchhiking through the Maritimes. I went to the island twice on that visit, once by happenstance when I was picked up by two guys who were heading to the island, and I went along for the ride, and later for a more prolonged stay. I remember walking in the middle of the night watching northern lights dancing above, I was hoping to get to a fishing jetty and spend the day on a boat, but that didn't work out. When I returned in 1998 with Mary, we spent a week together exploring the island and lounging on beaches that we had to ourselves. My next visit was quick and mostly rainy in 2005 with Yvon, and finally, in 2015, Yvon and I went for a day expressly to take a lot of photos of Charlottetown.
Photo List (Total 290 Photos)
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Charlottetown in 2024 (62 photos) - Yvon and I joined our friends Mary & Steve on the island while they were there for their summer stay, and had a great visit. We dropped by the charming town of Victoria on our way to their cottage, then spent part of the day in the city, especially going to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. A walk along the beach at Keppoch rounded out the evening.
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PEI with Yvette and Yvon in 2018 (58 photos) - The three of us took a day trip to PEI (but not Charlottetown) that brought us to the Canadian Potato Museum, the Acadian Museum, and the famous Bottle Houses in Cape Egmont.
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Charlottetown in 2015 (140 photos) - Yvon and I had an overnight visit in Charlottetown on a sunny September day. This gallery starts at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, a lot of photos of this, from a daytime visit and then at night when we went to see Evangeline. The gallery continues with Province House, then shots of the commercial centre of Charlottetown, especially along Queen Street. Some photos of St. Dunstan's Cathedral and other churches nearby, and then the waterfront (where we largely missed the tourist sites). We went to Fanningbank and to Victoria Park, and at the end there are photos of our visit to the Fort Amherst - Port-la-Joye historic site the next day, across the river from Charlottetown.
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PEI with Yvon in 2005 (23 photos) - Yvon and I went to visit his friend Georges in September 2005. This starts with the Confederation Bridge, has a couple of photos of the Confederation Centre and Province House taken just after we arrived, in fine weather. It poured rain during the remainder of visit, which did not stop us from going to the market, seeing Mary's cottage at Ledwell Lane, and going to Point Prim and Rustico.
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PEI with Mary in 1998 (6 photos) - I went with Mary to PEI in 1998, and though I have lovely memories of the visit, where we stayed at her cottage and explore the island, I took only six photos, all with a disposable panoramic camera.
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PEI in 1982 (1 photo) - Though I spent quite a bit of time on PEI (on two separate visits) during my 1982 hitchhiking trip through the Maritimes, only one photo seems to have resulted. This shows myself standing outside a motel with two guys who gave me a lift while hitchhiking, David was a Priest and we spent some time together.
