Sunday, August 15, 2010

A Canadian History Lesson....

Sunday, August 15

Charlottetown

A dinner at an Irish Pub complete with some 'Irish Ale' followed by a show was a nice way of spending our first evening in Charlottetown. And I believe for only the second time on this adventure we were completely 'off of our bikes' today.

We visited Province House National Historic Site of Canada, PEI's present day legislature, and the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, the meetings that set the 'blueprint' for the formation of Canada in 1867. We toured the old historic streets of Charlottetown and also Founders Hall. Founders Hall is a 'walk through time' tracing the formation of Canada from 1864 and concluding with the formation of Nunavut in 1999...A Canadian History Lesson!

We decided to stay at our motel for an extra day so we did not have to ride our bikes back into the city to be 'tourists'.