CN donates 100 trees that have been planted at P.E.I.’s Upton Farmlands Jim Day(jim.day@theguardian.pe.ca)Published: 13 hours agoFacebookTwitterMore CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Motorists are now enjoying a scenic stretch along Capital Drive heading into and out of Charlottetown – one that will grow to impressive heights – thanks to a donation of 100 trees. A legacy forest was […]
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Upton Farmlands will be a classroom for Jr. High Students!
Media Release October 18, 2012 Photo details – Left to right Grace Hickey – Queen Charlotte, Grade 8 Student ,Allan Pendergast – Queen Charlotte teacher, Beth Hoar, Parkland Conservationist, City of Charlottetown, member of the Upon Farm Trust. Looking on in the background -Heidi Hyndman, Board Member, Upton Farmland Trust, Kirsten Connor, Chair of Upton Farmland Trust. […]
Letter from Hon. Allan Campbell, Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning
August 18, 2010 Dear Kirsten, Thank you for taking time to meet with me, our Chief of Staff and my Deputy recently to share your concerns with the development of the BioCommons. Thank you as well for your letter to the Premier outlining your concerns and requests. After the meeting, we have had careful consideration […]
Charlottetown, The Guardian: Local News | Capital city squeezed out but still in control of Upton Farm planning
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Kirsten Connor’s Speech from June Press Conference
Thank you. Ladies & Gentlemen. Preserving this significant portion of the Upton Farmlands as green space for public use and in perpetuity is a testimony to vision and cooperation. A hundred years from now, when the Charlottetown area takes in half of Queens County, people will say, “where would we be without Upton Farm?”, just […]
UFPN Press Release
The Upton Farm Preservation Network is very pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached between the Provincial Government, Canada Lands Corporation and UFPN whereby a large amount of the Upton Farmlands will be preserved as green space. This land lays on both sides of the Trans Canada Highway and along the North River […]
“It’s Starting to Disappear:” Why We Must Save the Upton Farmlands
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 […]
A Concert on the Upton Farmlands?
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 […]
Sea Lettuce “a menace taking over PEI”
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 […]
CLC Hires Toronto Consultants to Mediate Fate of Upton Farm
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 […]