Boyde Beck

Thursday May 15, 2014

Boyde Beck - Annie Beaton

It's the kind of story that would make headlines and Facebook shares galore these days. 

But we're going back to PEI in the 1890's. A violent murder that become a legend and a ghost story.

And our historian Boyde Beck is here to tell us about it.

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Thursday May 1, 2014

Boyde Beck - Who Let the Lupins Loose?

Boyde Beck, Mainstreet's historian, investigates and explains the scandalous story about where and when the island lupins originated.

Was it Laura Lupinseed... tossing seeds along the roadway? Or was it seedy gardeners letting the lupins loose? Were they spotted first in North Rustico or Alliston? 

Boyde Beck investigates the loved and loathed queen of the ditches... Lupins.

 

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• May 2014
  • Thu., 15 – Boyde Beck - Annie Beaton
     
  • Thu., 1 – Boyde Beck - Who Let the Lupins Loose?
     
• April 2014
  • Thu., 17 – Boyde Beck - Peter's Tax
     
  • Thu., 3 – Boyde Beck - Fire, Fenians, Fractious Farmers
     
• March 2014
  • Thu., 20 – Boyde Beck - Tenant League
     
  • Thu., 6 – Bill Halpenny - 1912 Olympic Bronze Medal
     
• February 2014
  • Thu., 6 – Boyde Beck - History of CFCY
     
• October 2013
  • Thu., 31 – Boyde Beck - The 1884 Cemetery Murder
     
  • Thu., 17 – Boyde Beck - Bathygnathus Borealis
     
  • Thu., 3 – Boyde Beck - The Storm Surge of 1923
     
• September 2013
  • Thu., 5 – PEI's Fires of 1960 - Boyde Beck
     
• June 2013
  • Thu., 27 – Boyde Beck - Remedies of the 20's, 30's and 40's
     
  • Thu., 13 – Boyde Beck - Queen of the Northumberland Strait
     
• May 2013
  • Thu., 30 – Boyde Beck - PEI's Gold Rush in May of 1883
     
  • Thu., 16 – Historian Boyde Beck - 1830's Missing Treasury
     
  • Fri., 3 – Eat Lobster For your Country - Boyde Beck
     
• April 2013
  • Thu., 18 – Boyde Beck - Frederick Newton Gisborne
     
  • Thu., 4 – Boyde Beck - Potatoes, Autos, Foxes and Mottos
     
• March 2013
  • Thu., 21 – Boyde Beck - You Think That Was Bad?
     
  • Thu., 7 – Boyde Beck - The Life of John MacGregor
     
• February 2013
  • Thu., 21 – Boyde Beck - Islander Hits Hollywood
     
  • Thu., 7 – Boyde Beck - House of Assembly
     
• January 2013
  • Thu., 24 – Boyde Beck - Mud Season
     
  • Thu., 10 – Boyde Beck - Dizzy Block
     
• December 2012
  • Wed., 19 – Boyde Beck - First Community Cookbook
     
  • Thu., 13 – Boyde Beck - Acadian Deportation
     
• November 2012
  • Thu., 29 – Boyde Beck - Health and Housekeeping Tips from 1920
     
  • Thu., 15 – Boyde Beck - 1881 Bank Fiasco
     
  • Thu., 1 – Eerie Tale from 1852 - Boyde Beck
     
• October 2012
  • Thu., 4 – Boyde Beck - Prohibition in PEI
     
• September 2012
  • Thu., 20 – Boyde Beck - The Malpeque Oyster
     
  • Thu., 6 – Boyde Beck - Shipping Magnate Sir Samuel Cunard
     
• August 2012
  • Thu., 23 – Boyde Beck - Island UFO sighting
     
  • Thu., 9 – Boyde Beck - Old Home Week of 1912
     
• July 2012
  • Thu., 26 – Boyde Beck - Civil War Captain McCloud
     
  • Thu., 12 – Boyde Beck - Henry Ford's Fiddle
     
• June 2012
  • Thu., 28 – Boyde Beck - Party Like It's 1897
     
  • Thu., 14 – Boyde Beck - John Hamilton Gray
     
• May 2012
  • Fri., 4 – Boyde Beck - Dogs and Taxes