They planted and harvested by the moon in P.E.I. s Bygone Days
In Prince Edward Island s bygone days, many Islanders relied on the phases of the moon to plant their gardens and crops.
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Daniel McInnis and Samuel Finlayson in a P.E.I. field cutting and harvesting hay using horses, circa 1900. (PARO)
Horses could go where cars couldn t
Enid Birch was born in Birch Hill, near Tyne Valley, in 1901 and grew up when cars were actually banned on P.E.I., because they would scare horses on the roads.
James MacAuley said it once took him two and a half days to travel by horse and cart from Tignish to Charlottetown. (Dutch Thompson)
Birch said her favourite horse was a fast-driving horse named Tiny.
Birch said she had her first drive in an automobile in 1916 with Joe (Bun) Gaudet behind the wheel. Gaudet was a well-known restaurant owner who generously used to take people for spins around town in his car for most, it was their very first time in a car.
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Islanders were proud to show off their livestock in P.E.I. s Bygone Days
Back in the days when most Islanders lived on a farm, they had only to say I just got home from the Royal, and their friends would turn green with envy. A win at the Royal was a big deal then as it remains today, whether it s for pickling or prize-winning pork, horses or Holsteins.
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From equine to eggplant, Islanders have loved to exhibit their goods at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto
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The thoroughbred stallion Saint Sylvestre, winner of Grand Champion Thoroughbred Stallion at The Royal Winter Fair in the 1920s. He was owned by Raoul Reymond, who emigrated with his wife from Switzerland in 1925, buying a fox farm in Southport. He and his wife became operators of Dalvay By-The-Sea in 1959. (PARO)
Times were very different in P.E.I. s Bygone Days
A peek back at life on P.E.I. 100 years ago, when things were so different, it was almost like a different planet: wages of $1 a day, nine students in a one-room schoolhouse and taking the railway pump car to church on Sunday.
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When people made $1 a day delivering mail on foot, and there were 3 lobster canneries on Boughton Island
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The mail came to Prince Edward Island by boat until the mid-1940s, when Maritime Central Airways began flying it to and from P.E.I. This image of the Montague Mail Coach is circa 1904. (PARO)