New Digital Project “By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, PEI”

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The GeoREACH Lab is excited to share a new digital mapping project created by the Director, Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and students in Applied Communications, Leadership & Culture 2090 (Digital Humanities) over the last year. 

By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
An ESRI Story Map by
Joshua MacFadyen and Barbara Rousseau https://arcg.is/1GjibS

The Story Map is organized around eighty sites that were either central to or symbolic of developments in the history of transportation in the greater Charlottetown area. A menu at the top brings you to six sections that explore the city through a historical map mosaic (in 1917) followed by five main ways that people traveled and transported goods from the city’s beginnings until the interwar period.

A browser preview of one section of the GeoREACH Lab Story Map, By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

The image above offers a preview of the Story Map’s functionality. However, browsers and mobile devices will display the content differently.

Josh and co-author Barbara Rousseau are grateful to many collaborators for their inspiration, assistance, and visits to ACLC 2090, particularly from Natalie Munn at the City of Charlottetown Heritage & Planning branch. The collections and heritage professionals at UPEI’s Robertson Library, PEI’s Public Archives and Record Office, and L’Nuey were also instrumental to the Story Map.

Thank-you, again, to all who contributed; please enjoy the project and share it widely!

Coal delivery by horse and wagon, 1958. At the corner of Queen and Grafton Streets. The photo was taken by Chris Lund for the 1959  NFB Photo Story  “‘They Builded Better than They Knew’: Charlottetown: Cradle of Confederation.” Source: Library and Archives Canada / National Film Board fonds, e011176837, and  Charlottetown Stories .