History

Thursday May 16, 2013

Historian Boyde Beck - 1830's Missing Treasury

Mainstreet's Historian Boyde Beck takes us back to 1830, where money and politics were handled a bit differently. In May, 1830, a committee from the legislature dropped in to see the colonial treasurer and discovered that about a fifth of the colonial treasury was missing.

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Friday May 3, 2013

Eat Lobster For your Country - Boyde Beck

Like lobster? Some like it warm or cold, while others eat the roe but not the tomalley. Some can't get enough while others just dislike it. But imagine being forced to eat lobster - for your Country! Historian Boyde Beck clawed his way into the studio to explain.

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Tuesday April 30, 2013

Meacham's 1881 Atlas of PEI - Reg Porter

Meacham's 1881 Atlas of Prince Edward Island is often referred to as one of the most important historical works ever published on the Island. Historian Reg Porter tells us all about it.

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Categories: History, Writing

 

• May 2013
  • Thu., 16 – Historian Boyde Beck - 1830's Missing Treasury
     
  • Fri., 3 – Eat Lobster For your Country - Boyde Beck
     
• April 2013
  • Tue., 30 – Meacham's 1881 Atlas of PEI - Reg Porter
     
  • Fri., 26 – Bygone Days - All Work and No Play?
     
  • Mon., 22 – The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger
     
  • Thu., 18 – Boyde Beck - Frederick Newton Gisborne
     
  • Fri., 12 – Bygone Days - Margaret Shaw's 105th Birthday
     
  • Thu., 4 – Boyde Beck - Potatoes, Autos, Foxes and Mottos
     
  • Tue., 2 – Bygone Days - Goose Grease to Airplane Rides
     
• March 2013
  • Thu., 21 – Boyde Beck - You Think That Was Bad?
     
  • Mon., 18 – How PEI Got Involved with the Spanish-American War
     
  • Fri., 1 – Dutch Thompson's Bygone Days - Ambrose Monaghan
     
• February 2013
  • Wed., 6 – The PEI History of Medicine - Lisa Chilton
     
• October 2012
  • Fri., 19 – Protest History - Dr. Ryan O'Connor
     
  • Thu., 18 – Protest History - Dr. Ed MacDonald
     
  • Thu., 18 – Boyde Beck - Isabel Expedition