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He became director of numerous companies, including several successful rail-lines, miningcompanies and the Third National Bank. He was also active in charities and philanthropy. Hissalaries and investments from a number of these posts allowed him to amass a considerable personalfortune.He married Laura Palmer in 1862. They had one son, who died in infancy, leaving their only daughter, whothey also named Laura. Daughter Laura married Edmund Stallo, a young Cincinnati lawyer and son of the U.S.Ambassador to Rome. Laura and Edmund had two daughters, Helena and a third Laura. Unfortunately, Laura Stallodied at a young age in 1895, leaving the two girls in the care of Mr. & Mrs. McDonald. With Alexander's wealth, thegranddaughters were given the best possible education and were able to travel with the McDonalds all over the world.It was on one of these vacations that Alexander McDonald and his family spent their first summer on Prince EdwardIsland. After a few days in Charlottetown they moved on to the old Acadian Hotel in Tracadie. (Since destroyed byfire.) McDonald became so intrigued with the area that he contracted George Longworth, a leading island businessman,to act as his agent on P.E.I. They bought 120 acres of land on the north shore, which included a variety of clearedfarmland and forested area.Building was underway in late 1895. He named the house "Dalvay" after his boyhood home. Construction ofDalvay was said to have run close to $50,000. Local building materials were used exclusively in the construction ofDalvay. The lower half of the house was built with Island Sandstone in its natural boulder form and the hugefireplaces were also constructed with quarried blocks of the famous reddish sandstone.Much of the furniture was oak and mahogany. The family had traveled all over the world and bought beautifularticles of furniture, pottery and draperies in England, France, Egypt and Italy. Some very fine pieces of furniture werealso purchased from established British families in Charlottetown.It cost $10,000 a year to operate Dalvay, a huge sum even by today's standards. They kept a large number ofservants, cooks, housemaids, a gardener, two butlers, two laundresses', a caretaker and two men to look after the horsesand stable. MacDonald and his family entertained a great deal and his summer home was usually filled with guests.Every season before leaving, they gave a dance for the local people with a hired violinist; a lavish affair that wasenjoyed and remembered by all.Hillsborough River – A Canadian Heritage RiverThe Mi’'Kmaq name for the river - Mimtugaak- describes a waterway from Northumberland Strait, at theentrance to Charlottetown Harbour, winding inland through rich farm country to its source close to the white sandbeaches of the north shore. For centuries, the Mi'Kmaq people fished and camped along its shores. Europeans settledhere in the early 18th century, using the river far transportation and as a major ship building area in the days of sail.For most of its length, the Hillsborough is a tidal estuary with extensive salt marshes - a rich breeding area forthousands of marine birds and other creatures of the land and the sea. The great blue heron is the "statesman" of theriver, an ambassador of the serenity found along its shores.Human populations originating from various European sources over the past 275 years, adapted well to thediversity of an estuarine waterway. Attracted to its life sustaining qualities humans have at various times harvestedoysters, quahogs and mussels; dyked and harvested wetlands; played in and along the river; built large sailing vessels;and used it as a link to local and foreign shores.In recognition of its importance to our human heritage and because of its outstanding recreational values, theHillsborough was nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in 1994. The nomination was sponsored by theProvince of Prince Edward Island in partnership with the Hillsborough River Association - local citizens concerned forthe river's future and appreciative of its past. Not forgotten are the days when people homesteaded by the river andused the steamer service in summer and the frozen estuary in winter.Checkpoint #3Charlottetown City HallConstructed in 1888, City Hall included a fire station whose doors opened all at once when the bolt was drawnand also housed the police station with five cells in the basement. Located on the corner of Kent and Queen Streets.The Charlottetown City Hall is the oldest municipal hall in Prince Edward Island. Designed by Phillips and Chappellin the Romanesque Revival style often favored for 19th-century civic buildings.Hughes Drug Store
On December 24, 1810, Thomas Desbrisay Jr. opened an apothecary shop on this site. In 1874, GeorgeHughes bought Apothecaries Hall and operated it under the title "Apothecaries Hall - Hughes Drug Co. Ltd." Theoriginal building was replaced by the present brick structure in 1900. A plaque is mounted on the corner of the buildingpresently housing COW'S Ice Cream on the corner of Queen and Grafton Streets.The Land Tenure QuestionThe Land Tenure Question (Brighton Compound) Land dominated Island politics for over a century. In 1767,the British government granted the Island into 67 lots to 100 proprietors. Over time, leasehold tenures disappeared withthe sale of land and estates to tenants and the government. This was required by law after 1875. The Brighton PowderMagazine was built in 1866, when troops were stationed here to quash the Tenant's League.The Tenant League was an organization of farmers on Prince Edward Island that attempted to force aresolution to the absentee landlord question. The league was formed in December 1863, and membership grew throughthe winter and spring. By August 1864 the vast majority of land tenants on the Island had joined the Tenant League.The league held a convention at Charlottetown, where it adopted a constitution urging its members towithhold rent payments until the absentee landowners agreed to sell their lands. On March 17, 1865, both Catholic andProtestant members of the league attended the St. Patrick's Day Parade at Charlottetown. An attempt by the localpolice to arrest Tenant League leader Samuel Fletcher at the parade was thwarted by the crowd.Subsequently Governor George Dundas declared the Tenant League a seditious movement, and banned it.However, farmers refused to disband the league. There were several clashes between farmers and the bailiffs and sheriffswho were sent out to collect rents. These clashes are sometimes called the Tenant League Riots. The unrest became sosevere that the governor requested a contingent of British troops be sent to the Island to restore order. The troops wereobliged to remain for more than a year.Ardgowan National Historic SiteArdgowan National Historic Site (2 Palmers Lane) the former home of William Henry Pope, one of the Fathersof Confederation. Now the headquarters for Parks Canada's District Office. The exterior has been restored consistentwith styles and materials of the 1850s. The interior has been renovated to provide modern office accommodation. Opento visitors year round, the restored grounds feature garden fashions from Pope's time." It is an example of a picturesquerural cottage from the Victorian era, and the house and grounds have been restored to the period. Visitors can experiencethe serenity of the restored Victorian grounds, enjoy a family picnic or take a leisurely stroll.Province House National Historic SiteStanding proudly on the crest of Great George Street is Province House National HistoricSite of Canada—the very heart of the 1864 Conference and now, a national icon. Its impressiveColonial portico welcomes all, while its stone walls echo of past debates and dances.As the second-oldest active legislature in Canada, this is a building where past and presentblend seamlessly. The west wing houses the meticulously restored Confederation Chamber while theeast wing comes to life regularly as the Provincial Legislature sits in session with local politicalbusiness.All Souls ChapelAll Souls' Chapel was originally conceived as a memorial to Father George Hodgson, the first "priest-incumbent"of St. Peter's Cathedral, and was built in 1888 to plans prepared by William Critchlow Harris, ARCA (1854-1913), amember of the first class confirmed in St Peter's Church in 1869. The arched reredos, with statues of apostles andevangelists occupying the niches, is typical of Harris's altar screens. The Chapel walls are occupied by 16 paintings byWilliam's brother, Robert Harris, CMG, PRCA (1849 - 1919). The round painting above the reredos is of Christascending to Heaven, and has been a treasured icon to generations of Cathedral parishioners. The Chapel was built byLowe Brothers of Charlottetown, and the woodwork was carved by Messrs Whitlock and Doull.The Bog SchoolOn Prince Edward Island in the 19th century, the gulf between the rich and the lower classes was enormous.Nowhere was this more obvious than in the Bog area of Charlottetown where many Black Islanders lived.
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