Description of Visual: A period two-story house with a bay window on lower floor, and two steps leading up to the front door. The home features wood shingling with decorative scalloped shingling in the v of the roof. Inside the house, all furniture and decorative items are accurate to the early 20^th century period. Since this home represents the largest and wealthiest community on PEI, it has some features – including an indoor toilet and an icebox with coolant – that would have been state-of-the-art for the time period.

Audio Transcript:
Welcome to the Stonepark Open Sim video tour; we're going to go through and listen to the students talking about the work that they've done, we're going to pass through them one by one and I hope you enjoy the tour.

This room is called the parlour. The parlour was probably the most important room in the house. It would only be used for special occasions like weddings and funerals.

In this room there would usually be a couple of fancy chairs, a chandelier, a clock, a piano and a fireplace.

Hi, my project was on carriages and sleighs. We got to look at carriages and sleighs at a place.

This is a Montague hearse. It was used for taking deceased people to the wake, funeral, or the cemetery. They would usually be hauled by two horses and a driver would sit on top. They had to use these because there was no cars back then.

My project is on the automobiles of the 1900's and my picture is of Frank Tuplin and his family outside their Summerside home.

This room is the dining room, you would have eaten here; there is a big table and chairs and you would only use it for special occasions like if the minister came over.

My picture is a haywagon, and the farmer is on top and he has the hay and piles it in the wagon.

In this project we took lots of pictures and videos, we got lots of information on Prince Edward Island heritage and I got lots of information on horse racing.

I got to look for pictures at the Living Archives in old albums and we also got to look in the microfilms.

I did my Living Archives project on the blacksmith; my picture is in the dining room and it is of three blacksmiths in their shop.

My picture is of men hauling iceboats over the Northumberland Strait, they're hauling them by shoulder straps, a thick leather strap attached to the outside of the boat on a peg.

My picture is a train near Summerside and it looks like it's having a hard time going through the snow.

I picked the picture because my subject had something to do with farming.

I did my project with my best friend, and I did a picture of a group gathering in sleighs and put it in the pantry of the house; was taken in PEI in the early 1900s.

I'm Dustin, and my picture is of a train. It's a steam train from around the 1900s and it's on its way to the train station in Howland.

I'm doing my project on bikes and I have a picture of a bike from the late 1800s.

Hi, I'm Anthony and this room is a small bedroom, probably for a guest or a child, and I have a picture in there.

My project is on trains; my picture in the Open Sim house is in the bedroom, my picture is a train stuck in a snowbank in the wintertime and two people were digging it out.

I did my project on carriages and horses, and the picture I chose was a woman and a wagon.

Hi, my picture is about iceboats. Iceboats were used to travel across ice and water to the mainland.

Hi I did my Living Archives project on the blacksmith. The picture I chose was a horse and haywagon. My picture was taken on PEI.

Our room is the sewing room, and the fainting couch is in there because the women would be working so hard and their corsets would get too tight and they'd have to have a spot to faint. My topic is on horse racing. My picture is about a horse race at Charlottetown track. Our years expand from 1875 to 1925. I have two other partners working with me – we each found three to four pictures and we wrote blogs about them and linked them to each others' blogs.

I'm also doing the sewing room; I did my project on old bicycles, and I had two other partners. And if you find any pictures and you click on them, or objects, a little text will come up and you can learn from that too.