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Online Exhibits

The Public Archives and Records Office has prepared a number of exhibits in recent years which are available below. The current exhibit can also be viewed in person at the Public Archives.

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The Exhibits

Select an exhibit to view:

Celebrating Old Home Week

New Kid on the Block: The Public Archives Moves to Great George Street (Heritage Week 2020)

Caps and Gowns: Graduation Photos at the Public Archives

Let it Snow: Images of Our Island Winter (Heritage Week 2019)

Images of Early Camping in Prince Edward Island

Island Heritage Stands the Test of Time: Examples of Early Documentary Heritage at the Public Archives and Records Office (Heritage Week 2018)

The Public Archives Celebrates Canada 150: A Look at the Charlottetown Camera Club 1967 Centennial Celebration

Public Archives submission to The Ties that Bind Canada: A Canada 150 Project of the National, Provincial, and Territorial Archivists’ Conference (NPTAC)

Images of Historic Province House (Heritage Week 2017)

Charlottetown Harbour Through the Years (Heritage Week 2016)

Preserved by Letters: Fifty Years of the Public Archives and Records Office

Celebrating 80 Years at the O'Leary Public Library (A Joint Project of the Public Library Service and Public Archives, November 2014)

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Highlights from "This Week in 1864"

PARO Celebrates 2014 - 1860s Health and Medicine

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Rural Life in 1860s P.E.I.

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Advertisements from Hutchinson's 1864 Directory

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Images of Queens Square, Then and Now

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Social and Leisure Pursuits

PARO Celebrates 2014 - 1860s Clothing and Fashion

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Cradle of Confederation: A Look at Previous 1864 Anniversary Celebrations

PARO Celebrates 2014 - What You May have been Reading: 1860s Publications at the Archives

PARO Celebrates 2014 - Highlights from the Henry J. Cundall Photo Album

PARO Celebrates 2014 - 1860s Charlottetown

The Queen Comes to Prince Edward Island: Royal Visits 1951-1973

Seafaring and Travel in Early 20th Century Prince Edward Island

History of Sport and Recreation on Prince Edward Island, 1850-1950

Diary of a Young (P.E.I.) Girl: Gertrude MacMillan

Island to Island: British Immigration to Prince Edward Island 1763-1870

Charlottetown's Victoria Park

Community Theatre in Prince Edward Island

Tea Parties and Picnics

Along The Line: Photographs of the P.E.I. Railway

Prince of Wales College

Newbery Family Photographs

The Photography of J. Elliot Lumsden

Island Lighthouses

History of Charlottetown's Public Library

Inns and Hotels

Fox Farming in Prince Edward Island

Craswell Photo Studio

Charlottetown 1855 - 2005

Helen Bayfield

Morley S. Acorn, Photographer

Selected Projects and Websites that use Public Archives and Records Office content

Besides exhibitions created by the Public Archives and Records Office, a number of other websites have made use of material from our collection.

• PEI Lieutenant Governors Gallery - Photographs and short biographies of PEI's Lieutenant Governors.
• PEI Premiers Gallery - Brief biographies and photographs PEI's premiers from 1851 to present.
• Island Imagined - More than 1,000 digitized maps from the collections of the Public Archives and Records Office, the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, and Robertson Library (UPEI).
• Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection - A Nova Scotia Museum site with some 30 images from PEI.
• Picturing a Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers - Explores L.M. Montgomery's life and visual imagination through a selection of personal scrapbooks and book covers.