GROUPS

THE PASTIME CLUB

The Pastime Club in St. Peters Bay Photo courtesy of the Prince Edward Public Archives”

This group, which consisted of approximately sixty men and young boys from the Charlottetown area, came to St. Peters for one month every summer in the early 1900s to make camp in a field below the present day Catholic Church“ This group was not religious in orientation, and as the name indicates, was simply a social group of young men, who camped, and many of whom also played instruments. The group existed from about 1906 until shortly after the First World War. (17) Ardele Russell, from St. Peters is one of the few members of the community who recall this club in St. Peters. She remembers that they used to frequently go swimming in the Bay. (18) The P.W. MacQuaid Collection of photographs at the Public Archives of Prince Edward Island contains approximately forty-five pictures of the Pastime Club and their activities in St. Peters Bay. Photos include the men in boats on St. Peters Bay, and group shots taken in front of the BayView Hotel. (19) Ardele Russell also recalled a verse of a song that the boys of this club made for the friends

they made in St. Peters:

* Accession No. HF.81.18.3.4 * The Pastime Club also camped in Morell and Grand Tracadie.

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