Showing posts with label Bedeque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bedeque. Show all posts
Friday, February 12, 2016
Bev & Bill Bishop PEI House Reno
I was going through some old files and papers recently and came across this article which I believe appeared in "Century Home Magazine" (later Canadian Home & Country Magazine) sometime around 2001. The story tells about a renovation by Bev and Bill Bishop of Bedeque.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Shipbuilding in the Bedeque Bay Area - an illustrated talk
The
barque Josephine 577
tons
Built
at Summerside by John LeFurgey in
1875.
Owned
by John LeFurgey and Joseph Read of
Summerside.
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Dr.
Doug Sobey, a Research Associate of
the Institute
of Island
Studies at UPEI, will
give a fully illustrated talk on
‘Shipbuilding in the Bedeque
Bay
He
will be especially linking the
industry to the timber resources of the
area and incorporating his recent
research into the survey reports of the
Lloyd’s Register of British and
Foreign Shipping. Lloyd’s Register (not
to be confused with Lloyd’s
Bank or Lloyd’s Insurance) still exists
as a business (it celebrated its
250th anniversary in 2012)
and has kept all of the original survey
reports of the vessels they inspected,
including several thousand Island-built
vessels dating from between 1816 and
1880. In fact between 1856 and 1885
there
was a Lloyd’s surveyor based at
Charlottetown who visited and surveyed
ships built all over the Island at three
different stages during their
construction.
Sobey
spent several weeks at the library
of Lloyd’s Register in London, England
as well as in the National Maritime
Museum in Greenwich, examining the
original reports for vessels such as the
barque Josephine
(shown above)
built in Summerside in 1875 by John
LeFurgey, and he especially noted the
different woods that went into each part
of a sample of Island-built ships. He
says that given a Lloyd’s report for a
ship it would be possible to make
a replica of the same dimensions and
timbers – the reports are that
detailed.
In
his talk Sobey will concentrate on the
ships built in the Bedeque Bay area
between 1800 and 1880 and he will be
considering the timber resources that
were available in the watersheds of the
Wilmot and Dunk Rivers
The
talk is sponsored by the Bedeque
Area Historical Society, and will
take place on Monday July
22 at 7 pm
in the Bedeque United
Church
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
New Museum preserves Bedeque History
cf. CBC P.E.I. website:
The Bedeque Area Historical Museum celebrated its official opening on Canada Day.
The Bedeque Area Historical Society has been preparing for the event for two years, collecting artifacts with historical importance to the area, and renovating The William Callbeck Centre in Central Bedeque.
"The history of this area was beginning to be lost," said society member Sharon Leighton.
"The older generation were dying off, the people who could remember what it was like. And the young people had no way of knowing what life was like for their ancestors, so they wanted to preserve it."
The William Callbeck Centre was home to the Callbeck tailor shop and general store, which opened in 1899 and closed more than 20 years ago.
The museum includes about 3,000 artifacts donated by local historian, Howard Clark. It will be open during the summer months, and by appointment the rest of the year.
See also blog posting re: article from last summer on the announcement -
The old Callbeck's store - Bedeque Area Historical Museum (CBC)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
William Schurman House
William Schurman House
( Wm. built after the fire destroyed the cabin - it’s also gone now )
...So we set about researching the William Schurman family history which turned out to be quite easy since a two volume set had been published in the 1970′s that traced most of the more than 15 thousand descendants of William and his 11 children. Linda Schurman is descended from William’s son Isaac so it was his line we were most interested in seeing if we could find locations…houses, graveyards, etc related to him.
The first thing we went looking for was the site of William Schurman’s original log cabin. According to the Descendants book it was located on the Dunk River in Bedeque. With a little digging we learned it was on the farm now owned by Sydney Green so I went to visit Sydney who took me down as close as he could to where he said the log cabin had been located. I had to struggle through waist high weeds growing between a canola field and the trees lining the bank of the river. It was a very hot July day and I was wearing shorts….not a good decision because I got my legs all scratched and bloody from the rose briars. Of course the blood just sent the mosquitoes into a feeding frenzy. I got the where Sydney said the log cabin had been located….There’s nothing there now although Sydney said at one time when he was clearing land he found some old charred timbers which he figured belonged to the cabin after it burned down.It was obvious I was not going to be able to bring Linda and her family back to the log cabin site this way. Then I came up with what I thought was a great idea. What if we came in by water….just the way William would have. I called my neighbour, Brian Lewis who is an oyster fisher and asked him if he would take me up the Dunk to see if we could get to the site of the log cabin. I had the GPS coordinates so we would just use them to lead us to the location.
When Brian and I went to scout out the location to make sure we could find it, we discovered a little channel just wide enough for our dory to go through that led in from the river right to where the log cabin had been built. Brian figured it was probably a lot wider 200 years ago which is likely why William built the cabin there…he could get his boat right up to the site. We both kind of got goosebumps thinking we were actually following a route used more than two centuries ago...
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