#abegweit

[gogandmagog]

Come Back With Me to Prince Edward Island by L.M. Montgomery, from The Maritime Advocate and Busy East, 1936

[jirikrecek]

Film Friday: Abegweit

Canonet QL17 GIII | 40mm f/1.7 | Foma 400 | DF96 MV Abegweit, owned by Columbia Yacht Club and permanently moored on Chicago’s lakefront, was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world at the time of her commissioning in 1947. She served for nearly four decades as a ferry between mainland New Brunswick, Canada and Prince Edward Island. Her name is supposedly derived from the how the…

Film Friday: Abegweit

[sweetmetalmemories]

“The garret was a shadowy, suggestive, delightful place, as all garrets should be. Through the open window, by which Anne sat, blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon; outside, poplar boughs rustled and tossed in the wind; beyond them were the woods, where Lover's Lane wound its enchanted path, and the old apple orchard which still bore its rosy harvests munificently. And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky. Through the other window was glimpsed a distant, white-capped, blue sea—the beautiful St. Lawrence Gulf, on which floats, like a jewel, Abegweit, whose softer, sweeter Indian name has long been forsaken for themore prosaic one of Prince Edward Island.”

~L. M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams.

[noroomforhateinmyheart]

My cousin has three children Whos fathers were First Nation ( Abegweit First Nation (Mi'kmaq)) And they are no longer in the picture, but she still embraces their cultures and allows her children to learn from the tribe and be a part of their tribe. And the Tribe is so welcoming, and so comforting and I just love being around them. 

[trainofthoughtnews]

Train of Thought in Epekwitk(PEI)

[trainofthoughtnews]

Braiden tastes his first lobster, at the Abegweit welcoming feast!