Along with UPEI's Faculty of Arts and Robertson Library and colleagues from across the region, I am excited to share the call for papers for the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference which will meet in Charlottetown, PEI from 3-5 June.
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What’s at the other end of this bridge? Cape Jourimain, NB, the Chignecto Isthmus, and the second Gulf Ecologies conference: “Knowledge Beyond the Text,” to be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville.

These chateauesque stations were designed for Irving in the early 1930s by Acadian architect (and another son of Bouctouche) Samuel Roy. Here's the Souris station in 1942. (Source: Earle's PEI History, Facebook)

It does this Islander/historian’s heart good to see the Euston St gas station en route to preservation and repurposing for the community in Charlottetown. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The newly dredged shipyard and the slightly older trawler feet are visible at each end of Water Street in the 1968 images (see the red arrows), but the 1974 photo helps complete the story of development that occurred to house the new workers and their families.

I hope to add more years of imagery from the Province's collection. For instance, the 1974 air photos. Our postdoctoral fellow John Matchim was telling me about this new housing development at the north edge of Georgetown, built shortly after the Bathurst Marine Shipyard moved to town in 1965.

These maps show Poplar Island in 2023, 2020, 2000, 1968, 1967 (topo), 1935, and 1843 (H.W. Bayfield's coastal survey).

My lab's "GeoPEI" viewer shows how the island was expanded in the late 20th century (and how the bridge was reoriented and rebuilt before that). In an era of increasing hurricanes, storm surges, and sea level rise, building over fill this close to the high-water mark is ill-advised at best.