Table of Contents
Chronology is something that I spend a great deal of time fussing over. To solve this I have set up this Table of Contents which will list all the posts in chronological order with their titles and the dates on which they were posted. Thus if any readers want to read portions of the story I am telling in the correct sequence this will serve as a guide. To make it even easier, each topic is an active hyperlink that will take you directly to the post itself.
MY LIFE AS A LECTURER ON P.E.I. HERITAGE,
AND SOME OF THE PATHS AND BYWAYS I EXPLORED
Driven by Fate I found myself giving large numbers of illustrated lectures on the Heritage of PEI to audiences all over the Island and as part of a specialised course I was permitted to introduce into my usual lectures on the history of European Art at the University of Prince Edward Island. While I had professional training in European Art History all my lectures on PEI topics were the results of my observations and research by a very keen amateur. I believe that I contributed new knowledge to the basic story of Island heritage, at the very least looking at it from my very broad viewpoint as an art historian. My view was international, not parochial.
The following blog posts on the emergence of the Island in history all started life as lectures illustrated with colour slides. I gave the lecture – which I might have spent days preparing – only to have it dissolve into a mist when everybody went home. One of the most important reasons I chose to take on this blog project was to rescue all that knowledge and those insights from the mist – for good or for bad – so that, for a while, they would live again. All of the following posts derive from lectures I have given over the past 45 years.
March 17, 2019
THE ICE AGE AND THE FORMATION OF THE ISLAND
June 10, 2019
July 24, 2019
THE PEOPLING OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND – AND THE AMERICAS!!!
August 12, 2019
READINGS ON THE BIRTH OF PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
August 20, 2019
August 21, 2019
MY DISCOVERY OF P. E. I. PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY
August 27, 2019
P.E. I. STONE TOOLS AND WEAPONS – CORE OR COBBLE TOOLS
September 17, 2019
P.E. I. PALAEO INDIAN FLAKE TOOLS AND THEIR MATERIALS
September 24, 2019
P. E. I. STONE TOOLS AND WEAPONS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD
October 5, 2019
October 15, 2019
THE ARCHAIC PERIOD ENDS AND THE MI’KMAQ ARRIVE.
October 20, 2019
EARLY EXPLORERS AND THE BRINGING OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE MI’KMAQ
October 20, 2019
IMAGES OF THE MI’KMAQ – AN EVOLUTION
October 21, 2019
THE WIGWAM AND ITS EVOLUTION ON PEI
November 2, 2019
DISCOVERY AND FIRST CONTACT BY EUROPEANS
November 6, 2019
ARCADIA AND ACADIA – A MEDITATION – PART I
November 18, 2019
ILE SAINT-JEAN APPEARS ON THE MAPS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
August 17, 2020
SECOND SERIES
When I planned this blog I decided that I would include an autobiographical section that would span my first fifty years from childhood to success as a self-employed Heritage Consultant, until a health crisis brought everything to a halt around 1999. The importance of this section, to me, is that it lists in chronological order the enormous variety of projects I took part in over the years that related directly to aspects of my PEI Heritage and which gave me so much pleasure.
April 11, 2019
THE YEARS OF THE TIGNISH ARTS FOUNDATION: 1964 – ?
April 12, 2019
TANTRAMAR REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (1971-1979) – AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
April 16, 2019
38 YEARS AGO – AUGUST 1981 RECONNAISSANCE FOR A NEW LIFE
April 26, 2019
MY HERITAGE FOUNDATION YEARS 1982-88 – A PAINFUL TRANSITION
April 28, 2019
MY HERITAGE FOUNDATION YEARS 1982-1988 – THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
April 30, 2019
1988-1990 MY FIRST BUSY YEARS AS A HERITAGE CONSULTANT
May 11, 2019
1991-1993 NEW DIRECTIONS AND GRATIFYING YEARS AS A HERITAGE CONSULTANT
May 17, 2019
1992-1995 MY BUSIEST YEARS AS A HERITAGE CONSULTANT
May 18, 2019
1995-1999 THE END OF MY CAREER
May 23, 2019
ADDITIONAL POSTS, ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT, AND NOT PART OF ANY SEQUENCE.
THE LOBSTER SEASON – AN ANNUAL HERITAGE FEAST!!!
April 30, 2019
A LITERARY DIGRESSION: ANNE, EVANGELINE AND MARGARET THEODORA
June 9, 2019
The Catherine G. Hennessey Heritage Award
February 21, 2020