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the Charlottetown hospital and had hunted out all the available amateur talent in the surrounding districts to help it along. Bertha Sampson and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist choir had been asked to sing a duet; Milton Clark of Newbridge was to give a violin solo; Winnie Adella Blair of Carmody was to sing a Sct Scotch ballad; and Laura Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley of Avonlea were to recite.

As Anne would have said at one time it was “an epoch in her life” and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it. Matthew was in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honour conferred on his Anne


PHOTO ANNOTATION

an imposing brick building on a bare lot, three stories and many chimneys rise from the foundation

"the Charlottetown hospital": The Charlottetown Camera Club notes that "The first Protestant hospital in Prince Edward Island, built on Longworth Ave. at Cumberland Corner, was opened in 1884. This building had a capacity of 12 beds, and with an additional wing it was occupied till 1898. Dr. Richard Johnston was largely instrumental in the founding of this hospital. It is now an apartment house."
Public Archives and Record Office of Prince Edward Island, Acc 3466/HF72.66.11.4