Among the other notable buildings are Prince of Wales College, Bishop’s Palace, City Hall, Masonic Temple, Prince Edward Island and Charlottetown Hospitals and the Public Schools.
On the western shore is Victoria Park, a delightful recreation ground, with its pretty drives and lawns for sports. It is approached by a breezy roadway, and at its entrance are the guns and ramparts of Fort Edward.
There are pleasant drives all about Charlottetown, and one of the principal ones is that to Warren Farm, the chief historic spot on the Island, the site of the old French Capital, Port La Joie. Now nothing remains but mounds and excavations, while some old relics dug up there are reminders of the French community and of Fort Amherst, which was afterwards built by the English at the spot.
Charlottetown is connected with the outside world by several lines of steamers, including those of the Charlottetown Steam Navigation Co., running to Pictou and Point du Chene. It is the terminus of the Plant Line from Boston, and a port of call of the Quebec Steamship Co.’s Steamer ‘‘Campana,” running from Montreal to Pictou.
A drive across the Island from Charlottetown brings one to the charming seaside resorts of the north shore. These are also reached from nearby stations of the Prince Edward Island Railway. Here are fifty miles of white sand dunes or hills that the billows of old Atlantic have piled up, and fifty miles of glistening white sand beach as fine as dust and as hard as a billiard board. There is no finer surf bathing in the world, and the facilities are excellent for all kinds of sport, deep sea fish- ing, trout angling, wild fowl shooting and so on.
Tracadie, Stan- hope, Cove Head and Brackley Beach, are
almost due north from Charlottetown, and
about fifteen miles away. These resorts THE TRACADIE FISHERIES