Before I begin this post, I wish to extend my sincere thanks to Ron Garnett at www.airscapes.ca for allowing me to use many photos from his CD collection of aerial photos of the Island.   Definitions of Landscape and Topography LANDSCAPE is an emotional and aesthetic response to the territory around us. Like a work of art, it is a picture. TOPOGRAPHY is a scientific analysis of the component parts that make up the landscape. It is description and measurement, not emotion.   An Island appears… About 12,000 years ago when the glaciers that covered so much of the northern hemisphere were melting and retreating to the north, a landmass,…

This is very much a work in progress and is likely to remain so for some time. The origins and evolution of Malpec/Prince Town are perhaps as complete as possible, thanks to advice given by Earle Lockerby.  A great deal of work on the origins and development of Georgetown remains to be done. Sadly this will not be completed for some time. I thought it advisable to insert it in this sequence so it would follow the description of the origins and evolution of Charlottetown and have its place in the larger narrative.   HOLLAND CHOOSES SITES FOR HIS THREE CAPITALS It is no surprise then when in 1765 Captain…

Before Wright’s final plan of Charlottetown was approved and his grid plan with green areas began to be carved out of the wilderness set aside by Holland, there was no set of official regulations as to how things should be done, and which facilities and features should be identified as necessary for every town. The grid plan, now of considerable antiquity, first introduced in the New World by Philip II of Spain in the 1570s, was familiar to those planning future towns in the British Colonies, and may have been a source of inspiration. In 1768 Charles Morris used a grid plan with a central square reserved for the most…