GeoREACH Lab Director Dr. Joshua MacFadyen, and Graduate Research Assistant D. Bailey Clark have been busy these past few months!
In early February, Josh and Bailey, with the assistance of former research assistant Nolan Kressin, posted What Was Here? Four GeoPEI Map Collections and the Bookends of British Settlement on Prince Edward Island, on the Acadiensis blog. This article describes how they used GeoPEI: The Prince Edward Island Historical Map Viewerto demonstrate PEI history over a series of maps and atlases, from Samuel Holland’s 1765 survey to the Cummins’ Atlas of 1928.
Later in February, they discussed their work on Josh’s 2023 book, Time Flies: A History of Prince Edward Island from the Air with Matthew McCrae on the Hidden Island podcast of the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation: https://mjmcrae.podbean.com/e/charting-the-past-historic-island-maps-with-josh-macfadyen-and-d-bailey-clark/
Time Flies, Online Edition, a web-based story map companion to the book, was published shortly after: https://www.upei.ca/communications/news/2025/03/new-e-book-time-flies-online-edition-explores-changes-pei-landscapes and Josh and Bailey were subsequently interviewed by Sheryl MacKay on CBC PEI’s Mainstreet radio show (https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-130-mainstreet-pei/clip/16133066-time-flies-a-history-prince-edward-island-air)
Josh also discussed the book and online story map with Nicole O’Byrne on the Witness to Yesterday podcast of the Champlain Society: https://champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/digital-content/champlain-podcast/time-flies-history-prince-edward-island-air-with-joshua-macfadyen
Josh will be presenting on Prince Edward Island history and land use at several public meetings this spring and summer, including the Coalition for the Protection of PEI Lands, the Federation of Prince Edward Island Municipalities, the Belfast Historical Society, and the Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead.
GeoPEI: The Prince Edward Island Historical Map Viewer is available on our website here.
Time Flies, Online Edition is available on our website here.