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Update: 05 May 2009 Major update - first of several this year Searchable Telephone listings for the Summerside exchange have been added for 1922, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 , 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964 bringing the toal records in this database alone to over 40,000. The period covered is 1894 - 1964. There are now newspaper reports for 497 town council meetings (up from 438) which took place between 1890 to 1932. They reveal very interesting context for the life of the town and of course provide many names of residents and elected officials. Perhaps your ancestors were among them. We have increased by 60% (from 44 to 69) the number of indepth articles appearing in Summerside‘s four newspapers over the years - random selections 1864 - 1951 and all about the growth and deveopment of the community. Wonderful useful detail made easy to find - some of it not seen before. |
Explanation of the Membership Program
Access to our 'New Era Archives PEI' is only one of the benefits of signing up as a member of Wyatt Heritage Properties - but it is a substantial one that virtually stands alone. Members of Wyatt Heritage Properties have access to new references uncovered and recorded for you at our real world MacNaught History Centre & Archives in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Click here for the growing list of records available to Members.
New Era Archives PEI is so-named to reflect several themes. Archives in a digital age are increasingly making descriptions of holdings, if not images of holdings, accessible on-line, in order to facilitate research and grow the knowledge base of clients near and far. While we specialize in the western half of Prince Edward Island, Canada, our information has wider applications and we pride ourselves in being a starting point for your genealogical research for all of PEI. Also, when the only extant copy of The New Era newspaper - signed by an early Summerside resident in 1875 - was added to our Archival holdings, it re-affirmed for us the continuing role of real world archives in a new electronic era. Nothing trumps seeing the original document on site. Our New Era Archives is an example of the new serving the old serving you the archival client.
Our searchable material is of use to genealogists, historians and people interested in PEI's past. It includes Summerside Business Directories, Telephone Directories, and the Rural Directory for Prince County published in the Cummins Atlas c1928. There are beautiful web versions of the books Past and Present of Prince Edward Island (1906) and Down at the Shore by R. Allan Rankin. Jean's References to Businesses and People are a mini-reference library of brief newspaper notations about newsworthy changes in the life of the town. Also included are transcriptions of Lowell Huestis' CJRW Radio Show Those Were The Days, along with MacNaught History Centre and Archives' directory of over 5000 digital images, and J. Clinton Morrison Jr.'s raw data research on PEI immigrants and emigrants in the 1800's featuring thousands of entries bearing the overall name: A Century of Farewells.
Search nearly all our databases by keyword, or by name. It's easy to use, and will save hours of effort compared to researching the actual copies. You'll be surprised at the many uses and the variety of information.
We also promise to update with new information as we are able to process it.
Sign-up today and start taking advantage of all of your membership benefits!
