This is part 3 of an interview with two community elders regarding the place of horses in society during the last century.

This is part 2 of an interview between Grade 7 students at Stonepark and two PEI community elders.

This video is of an interview with community elders Mrs. Margaret Campbell and Mr. Clifton Stewart, both of whom had first-hand experience with the traditional world of horses on PEI.

Trains were used a lot around 1900 on P.E.I. Trains were used to ship goods, carry passengers around the Island, and sometimes were even used to carry bodies to the graveyard for burial.

The Prince Edward Island Railway started in May 1875, and the trains stopped running in 1989 because automobiles had become so popular. For a long time, trains were the most dependable transportation in the summer. In the winter, old-time trains had big plows on the front to clear the snow off the tracks.

Trains were a big part of Island travel, so every city and town had to have its own train station. (See the map in the picture for the station stops in 1884.) Most of the train stations were just little three-walled shacks, but some of them, like the Charlottetown train station, were huge stations.