Driving on the ice in P.E.I. s Bygone Days
Driving on P.E.I. s frozen rivers was often the best way to get around by horse and sleigh and later by car on Prince Edward Island 100 years ago or more.
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A man named Bill Nelson in a horse-drawn sleigh on P.E.I. circa 1918.(PARO) comments
Reginald (Dutch) Thompson s column The Bygone Days brings you the voices of Island seniors, many of whom are now long-departed. These tales of the way things used to be offer a fascinating glimpse into the past. Every few weekends CBC P.E.I. brings you one of Dutch s columns.
Memories of Christmas from P.E.I. s Bygone Days
The Christmas wishes of many children have probably not changed for centuries they love dolls, toys, ice skates and candy.
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Ella Newbery with her daughters Adele, left, and baby Marion, centre, as well as a Croskill girl, right, in Charlottetown sometime between 1885 and 1910. They are having a tea party and there are dolls, doll clothes hanging on a clothesline, toy dishes, wagons, carriages and other toys. (PARO)
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wants. i don t think you can get anybody really different in the treasury position, and i think in the end, he s going to be confirmed. sean: what do you think, standing back, big picture, because the president clearly wants a lot of fights. he s willing to fight on chuck hagel and here you have a guy, john brennan for the cia who said that jihad is a legitimate tenant of isl tenet of islam and he said that he s not going to allow the debt ceiling debate to be died to spending cuts which we desperately needs. he obviously he wants a fight. what do you make of the strategy that he s employed. i think what s happened to him is he feels that by winning a second term, with a slight addition of democrats in the house and the senate he now is, you know, king of the the world to quote an oscar winner of bygone days.