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ISABELLE GALLANT The Guardian It was right there on the cover of the 1990 Visitors’ Guide to P.E.I.: a photo of one of the Island’s most picturesque, and most controversial, views. It was land at Cousin’s Shore, where the Irishtown Road comes down from Kensington and meets Highway 20, and it would cause a scandal […]
Charlottetown City Hall On Jan. 30, 2008 the Council of the City of Charlottetown met with members of the Upton Farm Preservation Network. The Council asked the UFPN for its opinion on the use of Upton Farm as a potential concert site. The UFPN was told that the concert, if held, would take place on the […]
The Upton Farm Preservation Network made a presentation to the IRIS Group, which was tasked by the PEI provincial government to undertake an Island Heritage Study. The IRIS Group has travelled across the Island to provide groups and individuals the opportunity to share their views on the Island’s heritage and its future. The UFPN presentation, which can […]
By using the 1765 map of the French Acadian settlement of Rivière du Nord drawn by Samuel Holland and the computer program MapInfo, Dr. Doug Sobey has plotted the location of Acadian homes of the Upton Farmlands on a modern map, seen above. The map is bisected by the TransCanada Highway as it crosses Poplar Island; Maypoint and Beachgrove Roads can […]
(Photo Credit: Kathy Kennedy) Looking at this photo, one is reminded of the words of Joni Mitchell in her song, “Big Yellow Taxi:” Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone IF you recognize what we have at Upton Farm please send a letter to any of […]
Historian Dr. Doug Sobey’s research has discovered a 1752 census of PEI that shows seven Acadian families, bearing the names Daigre and Landry, lived and farmed on the shores of the North River on the Upton Farmland property. According to Dr. Sobey, the Acadian settlement was located near what is now the causeway at Poplar […]
The October 12th Charlottetown Guardian reported on an environmental conference held in Montague. The environmentalists in attendance said that “sea lettuce is a menace taking over many estuaries in PEI and must be curtailed in the interests of fishing and tourism.” Sea lettuce grows in nutrient rich waters and has a distinctly rotten egg odour when exposed to […]
Jules and family enjoying the cool breezes at Upton Farm. The Canada Lands Company recently hired the Toronto-based Canadian Urban Institute to confer with interested groups in Charlottetown about the best use for the Upton Farm property. According to its website, www.canurb.com, the CUI is: “…a national non-profit organization established in 1990 by the City of Toronto […]
The first airfield on PEI opened for business in 1931 on Upton Farm. This entertaining story by Syd Clay is about about the airfield and the part it played in the first airborne wedding in the Maritimes. It was featured in the June issue of the Voice for Island Seniors. An Aerial June Wedding BY […]
This news report was featured on CBC radio today: Premier Pat Binns is asking the federal government to step in to freeze development at Upton Farms, a large green space in the northern part of Charlottetown. The Canada Lands Company, the real estate arm of the federal government, already has approval from the city to […]