Odd and Unusual PEI

Attendees can expect stories about bears and deer on PEI, a visit from the Queen Mum, an Islander in The Great Escape, Canada’s first female lighthouse keeper, the wreck of the Marco Polo, two sailors in the Georgetown Jail, the winter the railway’s coal vanished, rum-running and cod liver oil, the 1929 earthquake in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and more.