Imagine that you're going to school with Anne Shirley and her friends somewhere in rural Prince Edward Island in the 1870s or 1880s. What would your day be like?

Well, let's start with getting dressed to go to school. You probably don't have much choice of clothes. If you're a girl, you might have two dresses, like Anne does in the book, with a pinafore (a sleeveless apron) to go on top. Underneath, you'll be wearing a vest, drawers (underwear), and probably a petticoat. If you're a boy, you're probably going to pull on knickers (knee-length pants that buckle at the knee) and a shirt, though older boys got to wear full-length trousers. In the winter, you'll wear long underwear and long stockings (yes, the boys, too) to stay warm. Girls have long hair, so it has to be combed and braided before breakfast. There isn't any running water, so to wash, you'll pour water from a pitcher or bucket into a basin. (If it's winter, you might have to break the ice first.) Your mother will cook breakfast on a woodstove, and if it's winter and dark in the morning, the house will be lit with lamps or candles.

This video was made on Ocober 3, 2007 and is about what men wore in the summer in Orwell Corner, P.E.I., around the turn of the century (1900).

This video was made on October 3, 2007. I interviewed the lady clerk in the General Store about what was sold and what was in stock in Orwell Corner, P.E.I., in about 1900.

This picture is of a lovely lady dressed in white driving a buggy through a creek. I do not think you could buy a horse carriage today, but if you could, I think it would be a lot of money. The lady is driving one of the more popular buggies. A lot of people used this style of buggy.

This is a clipping from the Guardian about bicycle goods and accessories and where to buy them. This type of clipping was pretty common because bicycling was good exercise.