P.E.I. Heritage Buildings: Victoria Street

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

62 Victoria St., Kensington - Demolished!

Today was a good news / bad news day! I had to run up to Kensington late this afternoon and to my horror this lovely house on Victoria Street had been demolished and the hole was being filled in with fresh shale. I expect it was demolished to make way for the adjacent service station! Too bad!!
Here's a photo from Google Streetview...

Here's the aftermath photos!

For more information about this house and others in Kensington, see the following:

Heritage Homes History, Property Ownership, Kensington

ISLAND NARRATIVES PROGRAM

Kensington, PEI Heritage Homes History of Property Ownership

KenNet Research Team Winter 2011

This report contains over 250 ownership profiles of Kensington,

Prince Edward Island’s historic homes.

http://137.149.200.109:8080/fedora/get/cap:2517/OBJ

HERITAGE PRAYER

We keep forgetting all of those who lived before us.

We keep forgetting those who lived and worked in our communities.
We keep forgetting those who prayed and sang hymns in our churches before we were born.
We keep forgetting what our fathers have done for us.
We commit the sin, Lord, of assuming that everything begins with us.

We drink from wells we did not find.
We eat food from farmland we did not develop.
We enjoy freedoms which we have not earned.
We worship in churches which we did not build.
We live in communities we did not establish.
This day, make us grateful for our heritage.

Amen

cf. Cumberland Historic Village, near Ottawa - in the vestibule of Vars Knox United Church -

adapted from a prayer in the old Covenanters' Church - 1804, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.