P.E.I. Heritage Buildings: Station Agents House

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Station Agents House - 1904

Here's an article about the Lower Freetown Station Agents house, moved to Augustine Cove in the early 1990's. Today it is a summer rental property - http://www.homeaway.ca/cottage-rental/p388753vb
Many communities on the Island with train stations had Station Agents homes built from this same plan.

Below: Page from PEI Heritage Designs Book.

Below: Copy of original drawings from PEIMHF.

Here's the Station Agents House in Hunter River.

Below: cf. CIHB (Canadian Inventory of Heritage Buildings) 1974

Below: Hunter River Postcard - Station Agents House on left - 1909

Below: Hunter River Postcard - Station Agents House on left 1926

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HERITAGE PRAYER

We keep forgetting all of those who lived before us.

We keep forgetting those who lived and worked in our communities.
We keep forgetting those who prayed and sang hymns in our churches before we were born.
We keep forgetting what our fathers have done for us.
We commit the sin, Lord, of assuming that everything begins with us.

We drink from wells we did not find.
We eat food from farmland we did not develop.
We enjoy freedoms which we have not earned.
We worship in churches which we did not build.
We live in communities we did not establish.
This day, make us grateful for our heritage.

Amen

cf. Cumberland Historic Village, near Ottawa - in the vestibule of Vars Knox United Church -

adapted from a prayer in the old Covenanters' Church - 1804, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.