Historic house styles, local historical connections and a seasonal museum visit give Bedeque a cultural and historical focus. When choosing a hotel, it helps to narrow down your reason for visiting: Are you most interested in architecture, connections to the early community, or a seasonal museum offering? The examples in Bedeque and in the broader destination of Prince County differ in their historical themes.

Historic Houses and Their Distinctive Features

Callbeck House in Central Bedeque is designated a Provincial Heritage Place under the PEI Heritage Places Protection Act. It has important connections to the community’s early settlers and leading figures in the business community. Dr. Jonathon Jameson House offers a different architectural feature: this one-and-a-half-storey home, built in the regional style of the United Empire Loyalists, has a central hallway.

Maplethorpe was built in Bedeque around 1860 as a two-and-a-half-storey timber-frame house in the Gothic Revival style. Compared with the one-and-a-half-storey Dr. Jonathon Jameson House, it differs in both height and construction and architectural style. The houses can therefore be considered in terms of their floor plans, building heights and architectural styles.

The landscape adds another dimension to Wright House: it sits on a tree-covered property near the south branch of the Dunk River. It is considered significant because of its connections to the Wright family, the United Empire Loyalists and the development of Methodism on Prince Edward Island. This makes the house’s setting and historical connections two distinct points of interest.

Seasonal Museum Visit in Bedeque

During the season, admission to the Bedeque Area Historical Museum also includes access to the Lucy Maud Montgomery Lower Bedeque School. A visit to the school is therefore tied to a museum visit during the season. If this offering is important to your plans, check current visiting dates before your trip.

Cultural History in the Broader Destination of Prince County

In the broader destination of Prince County, the Tignish Cultural Centre houses a museum with artifacts and documentation on local history and culture. Alberton Museum displays artifacts from early residents, local photographs and genealogical information about families from the area. Tryon Museum has a different focus: the history of Indigenous, Acadian and early European settlement in the region.

The Acadian Museum traces the history of Acadians on Prince Edward Island from 1720 to the present. Permanent and changing exhibitions, a bilingual video presentation, historic paintings by Claude Picard and genealogical resources offer different ways to explore the subject. Green Park Shipbuilding Museum & Yeo House focuses on Prince Edward Island’s long shipbuilding tradition. Its offerings include a tour of a restored Victorian house; visitors can learn about 19th-century crafts in a historic schoolhouse and a blacksmith shop.

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