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DOWN THE BACKSTRETCH: Stakes season starts in Saint John - The Guardian

Monday, May 22, for the Bill Quigg Memorial Stake for three-year-old colt and filly pacers.The open mares start their season on June 18 at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway with the first leg of the Atlantic aged pacing mares series while the invitational pacers kick off in the Cecil Ladner memorial on June 24 in Charlottetown.The two-year-old pacers, along with all the trot divisions, start off during Governor’s Plate week racing in Summerside. The Meridian Farms Atlantic Sires Stakes trot starts its season on Tuesday, July 11, for the two- and three-year-old trotters. The two-year-old pacing fillies start their careers off in Atlantic Sires Stakes action on Wednesday, July 12, with the two-year-old pacing colts headlining the Thursday, July 13, race card in sires stakes competition.Horse Racing New Brunswick will also revive the Barrieau-MacIsaac memorial as a late closer for three-year-old pacing colts and fillies with a tentative race date of Aug. 7 in Saint John.P.E.I. SceneIsland racing has lost the matriarch of one of its great racing families.Shirley Hennessey, 91, passed away earlier this week in Charlottetown but leaves behind a family to be proud of. Her funeral is set for 10 a.m. Friday at the Hennessey Cutcliffe Charlottetown Funeral Home.Hennessey’s husband, the late Joe Hennessey, was an accomplished trainer-driver on the East Coast circuit until his passing in 2007.Hennessey’s children include U.S., Canadian and P.E.I. Hall Of Fame member Wally Hennessey, best known for driving greats like Moni Maker and Gallo Blue Chip while amassing 9,275 driving wins and $62 million in purse earnings. Jody H...
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/sports/other-sports/2017/2/9/down-the-backstretch--stakes-season-starts-in-saint-john.html

Funeral homes warned to be prepared in advance of possible pandemic - Toronto Star

The agency notes the average attendance at a visitation in Prince Edward Island is 1,000 to 1,400 people.No special vehicle or driver’s licence is needed for transportation of the deceased, the agency states.“Therefore, there are no restrictions on families transporting bodies of family members if they have a death certificate.”Let's block ads! (Why?)...

Fall at construction site claims life of worker, 33 - OHS Canada

Canadian OH&S News) — A 33-year-old construction worker from Prince Edward Island has died after he fell off a roof in Calgary on July 24.A spokesperson with the Calgary Police Service (CPS) said that police had been called to a construction site on Mahogany Mews SE at about 3:20 p.m. that day, following reports of a male worker falling off a roof of a four-storey building.“He was confirmed deceased at the scene by EMS,” the spokesperson added. After the CPS determined that the death had been accidental, “we notified a medical examiner and Occupational Health and Safety in Alberta, and they’re now handling the investigation.”Shirley Lyn, public-affairs officer for the Alberta Ministry of Labour, confirmed that the Ministry’s oh&s department was investigating the incident, but could not provide further details.It was unclear at press time whether the victim was using fall-protection equipment at the time of the accident. “That’s part of the investigation,” said Lyn.The victim was later publicly identified as Tyler Wallace MacDonald, who was o...
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The real 'Father of Confederation' – Part 2 - Cumberland News Now - Cumberland News Now

Association of Canada and served as it’s first President.He constantly promoted the expansion of Canada as Minister of the Crown in the MacDonald administration. He assisted greatly in bringing Prince Edward Island into Confederation. He played a major role in the purchase of vast lands of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which made expansion westward possible leading eventually to the creation of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.No one believed more in the necessity to build a railroad to the Pacific Coast than Charles Tupper. He worked tirelessly on that front. In 1881, he personally visited the colony of British Columbia. At that time there was only one house in what eventually became the city of Vancouver. Yet Tupper foresaw and predicted a great metropolis.That same year, while Canadian High Commissioner in London, as well as Minister of Railways and Canals of Canada, the dream of a national railroad was in trouble. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company had encountered unforeseen problems and expenses and faced imminent financial collapse. Tupper rushed back from London and persuaded his party and Parliament to give the company a loan of 30 million dollars for four years at four percent. This is an example of the reason Charles Tupper is referred to as “the man behind the National Policy”. Building that railway and connecting the country from coast to coast was indeed a major accomplishment. Tupper himself, in one of his speeches, observed that 4 million citizens of Canada accomplished what it took 40 million Americans to do - build a railway to the Pacific.Of course we must not forget to mention strong support for the building of a canal across the isthmus of Chignecto. When the prospect of a ship railway appeared and looked feasible, he supported that with all his might. It did not come to pass, and is a long story for another time, but not due to any lack of support from Charles Tupper. Charles Tupper was first knighted in 1868 and was named a Baronet of the United Kingdom in 1888 in recognition of his service to the Empire. After he retired from the Canadian Parliament, he and his wife moved to England where he lived until his death in 1915. He often visited Canada, however, because he had children and grandchildren from coast to coast.In England he continued his public service. He sat on the executive committee of the British Empire League,which also allowed him to promote closer economic ties and the welfare of Canada in general. As an emissary of the British Crown he travelled to various capital cities of Europe. For his service to the Empire he was made a knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George ...
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