Clyde River hosts lectures
Recent research into the mills in Clyde River
Clyde River has announced the lineup for its sixth annual history lecture series that gets underway this Saturday.
The Clyde River Lecture Series, held at the Riverview Community Centre, 718 Clyde River Rd., offers the chance this year to learn about the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation, recent research into the mills in Clyde River and medicine through the years.
All presentations will be followed by refreshments and a social time.
The museum will also be open to view Clyde River artifacts and heritage photos. For more information contact Vivian Beer, vivian@eastlink.ca.
Following is a description of each of the presentations and presenters:
Saturday Jan. 27, 1:30-3:30 p.m.: Dr. David Keenlyside presents “An overview of the work of the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation”. The foundation manages seven P.E.I. museums and is responsible for more than 90,000 artifacts. It also manages the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Awards and publishes the popular “Island Magazine”. Keenlyside will offer an update on the current work of the foundation and some guidance on how to help preserve Island history.
The executive director of the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation, Keenlyside is originally from British Columbia. He is an archeologist by profession and worked at the National Museum of Man and the Canadian Museum of Civilization for 35 years as Atlantic provinces archeologist. Feb. 10, 1:30-3:30 p.m.: JoDee Samuelson presents “Watermills in P.E.I., especially those in Clyde River”. For her master of arts in Island studies from UPEI, she wrote her thesis on water-powered mills on P.E.I. and Gotland Island, Sweden. Her interest began while she lived in Clyde River across the river from the Dixon/Scott Mill and down the road from the Beer’s Sawmill on the Bannockburn Road. She will pass along her research on the mills on the Clyde River that at one time provided flour, oatmeal, and sawn lumber for a prosperous ambitious community.
Samuelson grew up on the Canadian prairies and has lived on the south shore of the Island for the past 30 years. An award-winning filmmaker, she also writes a column “The Cove Journal” for Charlottetown’s monthly arts magazine, “The Buzz”.
Feb 24, 1:30-3:30 p.m.: Dr. Lewis Newman presents “Changes and Improvements in Medicine & Medical Technology in my Time”, referencing vaccines, small pox, malaria, polio, artificial limbs, artificial joints, organ transplants, thermometers, endoscopies, CT/MRI/PET scans, blood glucose monitoring, insulin pump, cataract surgery, key-hole surgery, artificial insemination, oral contraceptives and gene therapy. He will also touch on the tuberculosis pandemic that affected almost all Island families in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Newman, who was raised in New Haven, spent his early school years in New Haven and then the Borden School for Grades 9 and 10. He attended Prince of Wales College and went on to Dalhousie for his undergraduate and medical education, graduating in 1969. He began his general family practice in Sydney, N.S. In 1971, he moved back to P.E.I. and had a general family practice in Charlottetown at the Polyclinic until 2006. Between 2006 and 2012, he was a hospitalist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. For 15 years, he was house doctor at Beach Grove Home. He retired in 2012.