Charlottetown

The City of Charlottetown is a flourishing community of over 34,500 people located on the south shore of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown is both the capital city of PEI and the largest city on the island. First settled by the French in 1720 it was not incorporated until 1855. Most of the brick or stone buildings that we saw were built in the late 1800's. These two were built in 1890. With that name you must know that Susan is checking out the Northern Watter Knit Wear.

These are some of the older frame buildings on a side street that house local artist's studios and galleries ,antique shops and cafes. There is a wonderful variety of private and public buildings.

From a distance I thought I was seeing David Levy Yulee but when I got closer and read the description I found out that Shadow and I were talking to Sir John Macdonald who was the first Prime Minister of PEI. We couldn't talk that guy next to me into letting us have the bench for the picture.

Sorry about the shadows and part of my finger over the lens but I just had to take the picture. Charlottetown has several very nice pieces of public art. The US has it's Eagle and Canada has it's Loon. The Canadian money system doesn't have any one dollar bills - They have both a dollar coin and a two dollar coin. An image of a loon is on the backside of the dollar coin so it is called a Loonie. The two dollar coin is larger and is called a Toonie. So say hello to the Loon, The Canadian national bird.