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
CBC News ·
Posted: Jan 31, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 31
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)