| Down at the Shore |
| A History of Summerside Prince Edward Island (1752-1945) |
| Robert Allan Rankin |
"Down at the Shore is a special kind of community history.
Although Allan Rankin writes with the familiar warmth and
affection of one talking about his own people, he attempts
something much more ambitious: to explain how, in the context
of a particular geographical location and world economic
conditions, the town of Summerside came to be. More than
that, and without falling into cant or dogma, he writes with a
constant sense of sympathy for the working poor, who are so
often overlooked in the usual historical litanies of the
well-to-do.
This book lives with the dynamic energy of the many
characters who fused their own vitality with that of a growing
town. We meet, and get to know, Daniel Green, Loyalist
settler; John Small, ship carpenter; J.C. Pope, ship merchant
and politician; Joseph Read, sea captain; John MacKenzie,
world champion tailor; Gertrude Arbuckle, schoolteacher;
Robert T. Holman, Water Street merchant; Thomas Hall, farm
equipment manufacturer; John L. MacKinnon, newspaper
editor; Frank Tuplin, fox rancher; Corporal Prescott Forbes,
soldier in the trenches of World War I.
To this list of thrusting entrepreneurs and fine craftsmen can
now be added that of an outstanding community historian.
Allan Rankin has written a wonderful book."
- Harry Baglole
Although Allan Rankin writes with the familiar warmth and
affection of one talking about his own people, he attempts
something much more ambitious: to explain how, in the context
of a particular geographical location and world economic
conditions, the town of Summerside came to be. More than
that, and without falling into cant or dogma, he writes with a
constant sense of sympathy for the working poor, who are so
often overlooked in the usual historical litanies of the
well-to-do.
This book lives with the dynamic energy of the many
characters who fused their own vitality with that of a growing
town. We meet, and get to know, Daniel Green, Loyalist
settler; John Small, ship carpenter; J.C. Pope, ship merchant
and politician; Joseph Read, sea captain; John MacKenzie,
world champion tailor; Gertrude Arbuckle, schoolteacher;
Robert T. Holman, Water Street merchant; Thomas Hall, farm
equipment manufacturer; John L. MacKinnon, newspaper
editor; Frank Tuplin, fox rancher; Corporal Prescott Forbes,
soldier in the trenches of World War I.
To this list of thrusting entrepreneurs and fine craftsmen can
now be added that of an outstanding community historian.
Allan Rankin has written a wonderful book."
- Harry Baglole
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| "One cold day Colonel Compton drove down from the North Shore to Green's Shore. The day was bitter cold; the sharp north wind blowing across from Richmond Bay chilled him through and through; but on approaching his destination, he presently found himself sheltered from the cruel blast, and on the sun suddenly emerging from clouds he exclaimed, 'Why dear me; it's like a summerside here.' And so after that the place always bore the name." - The Summerside Pioneer, Jubilee Edition, 1887 |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| Preface Chapter 1: The Bedeque-Malpeque Isthmu Micmac Hunters and Acadian Ploughmen Loyalist Refugees Greens Shore Around the Bay Chapter 2: The Golden Shipyard The Timber Trade The Popes and Walshes Iron Kneed and Copper Fastened Boom Ships Without Wood Chapter 3: Market Town The First Merchants Intercolonial Connections Doing Business The Merchant Prince of Water Street The Mechanics Chapter 4: Community Life The Birth of Local Government Public Safety, Health, and Welfare Religion The Temperance Movement Education Politics and the Local Press |
| Chapter 5: The Silver Fox Era Pioneer Foxmen Frank Tuplin Foxes Come to Town Ranching Practices War and the Home Front An International Industry Oasis in Depressed Times RCAF Station Summerside Epilogue Notes Appendices Appendix A: Chairman and Mayors Appendix B: Sermon of Rev. R. Osgood Morse List of Illustrations |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert Allan Rankin |
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