markets, drive-in theatres, licensed lounges, ice houses, golf courses, flower gardens, etc..

Some of the fund-raising activities in which the Association has been involved include variety concerts, dances, beach barbecues, as well as the income from membership dues.

The Association has promoted the area by means of brochures, billboards at the ferry terminals, advertisement in This Week on P.E.I., and on the radio. The Association has sponsored “Miss North Shore” at the Summerside Lobster Carnival, and has entered floats in the parade at the Summerside Carnival and in the Gold Cup and Saucer Parade in Charlottetown. A tourist information bureau was erected at Stanhope Corner; this was moved in 1970 to Stanhope School, complete with 2-way radio. A group of international travel writers was hosted at Stanhope Beach with a smorgasbord of P.E.I. fresh foods: clams, oysters, lobsters, mushrooms.

The Brackley-Stanhope-Dalvay Tourist Association has made representations to Government, and with much success, in such varied matters as highway paving, and highway direction signs; dial tele- phone service, and pay phones; information booth operation; R.C.M.P. control of the area; a golf course for the area; rebuilding of the dam at Cass’s bridge to include a fish ladder; mosquito control; beach supervision by life-guards; beach pollution; erosion of the bank along the Bayshore Road; ferry service to and from the Island; etc., etc..

With a membership around 100, the Brackley-Stanhope-Dalvay Tourist Association continues to promote the interests of the North Shore entrepreneurs.

The North Shore Bicentennial

The 200th anniversary of the settlement of the Brackley-Stanhope— Covehead area was celebrated in 1970, with a variety of functions and festivities. Planning began in January, 1970 and ten general meetings (and many sub-committee meetings) were held, with an attendance of many representatives of the three communities, who volunteered their time, talents and energies to make these celebrations successful. Harry Kielly was chairman of the planning committee and Mrs. Walter MacLure, secretary. June 8 was the actual day that the settlers disembarked here, but June 6 was chosen as “the big day”, to coincide with the opening of the new Stanhope golf course.

Among the various functions leading up to the climax on June 6 were the following:

A Bicentennial Variety Concert at the Stanhope-Covehead Com- munity Hall, which ran for three nights at the end of May.

“Miss North Shore” Beauty Contest on June 1, won by Carolyn

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