"The Island's First Scottish Settlement" - Stanhope, Prince Edward Island
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wildwoodke
N 46° 25.594 W 063° 08.316
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This welcome sign, near the entrance to Prince Edward Island National Park, is for the community of Stanhope, Prince Edward Island.
Waymark Code: WMF7H0
Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date Posted: 09/05/2012
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"Stanhope Cove appears as a place name in 1790 for what we now know as Covehead Bay. There is also a Stanhope farm marked out on the same map. This enterprise was the work of Sir James Montgomery to establish an estate-like farm. He also owned an estate called Stanhope in Scotland, but the attempt to replicate the model in the New World was short lived. The promise of rental of an individual farm until ownership could be achieved was more to the liking of the first settlers. And the area was attractive to Scottish settlers, as it was to the Acadians before them. Soon there were a number of farms and by the 1850's a school. "
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When the first settlers sailed into Covehead Bay on the Falmouth on June 8th, 1770. These Scottish settlers from Greenock, Scotland were made up of 17 families who came to live in these new lands.