February 2014 General Membership Meeting

The PEI Genealogical Society held a general membership meeting on Saturday February 22 at 2:00 p.m. at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House, in Charlottetown.

Jim Hornby, weekly Guardian newspaper contributor on the topic of PEI seen through its 1864 newspapers, gave an entertaining talk on what life was like in 1864 drawing on his experience in the study of folklore and his readings of the 1864 newspapers.