THE BALTIC ROADS

Due to the fact that “The Baltic” is partly in Princetown Royalty (the proposed site of the capital city of Prince County, much of the area was laid‘ off in roads, running North from the Baltic Road and one-quarter mile apart. These roads begin in the West at the Base Line Road and include the following roads: The Malpeque Road; Benny’s Lane, which terminated at Ben Beairsto’s, the site of the now closed North Shore Hotel, Malpeque; The Crozier (Crafer) Road, which terminated at the Crozier farm, Malpeque, now owned by John MacNutt; the Bernard Road, terminating at the Baltic River (west arm); The wall Road, running to the Baltic River, now known as the Baltic River Road; and finally the “Qt” (Otis Champion) Road, running to the Baltic Creek. These roads were all travelled and inhabited, however, now some are only passable by farm machinery.

Other roads in the community, running south from the Baltic Road. include The Holmes Road, where the Holmes’ blacksmith shop and several farm homes were situated. Today this road leads to the Richard (Wall Disposal Site, no other building is to be found. The “Old Town Road” running south was the first main link between Charlottetown and Prin- cetown. Travellers from Charlottetown travelled Malpeque Road (University Avenue) to Hazel Grove via Margate to “Old Town Road” crossing Baltic Road, fording the stream to the Crowley Road to Darnley Bridge, then following the shore to Princetown. Thermode of travel was by foot, horseback, horse and cart, and stagecoach. The main road from Kensington to Malpeque was but a cow path! There is a small road eon- necting the Holmes Road and the Old Town Road, it begins on the Old Town Road where the Matthews Farm is located, and another road con- nects the Old Town Road with the Malpeque Road, the P.W.C. (Pierce- Wall-Crozier) Road.

APRIL 18, 1928

The roads throughout the province were officially opened to automobiles on Saturday and quite a number were travelling by motor on Sunday. Several cars went to Charlottetown from Summerside and the drivers reported the roads good for this timeof the year.

First motor car in Baltic was owned by James Cousins — a MacLaughlin Buick.

The first pavement in the Baltic was on the Malpeque Road in 1958, in .1965 the Baltic Road was paved from the corner to the Old Town Road, and 1n 1968 it was completed to Cousin’sCorner. In 1977 part of the P.W.C. road has been paved and in 1978 the Baltic River Road.

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