A history of Canoe Cove / Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island OCR scanning TEI encoding IslandLives, Robertson Library, University of PEI 2009 168967 Use of this resource is governed by the Canadian Copyright Act. Unless otherwise noted you must contact the rights holder(s) for permission to publish or reproduce this resource. A history of Canoe Cove / 103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Prince Edward Island ; 1992. This text was created as part of the IslandLives Project. Project description and participants are available at the project website at http://www.islandlives.ca. This electronic text file was created by the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. Typographical distinct text has not been identified. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Dates, personal, place and organizational names have been encoded. Library of Congress Subject Headings Canoe Cove (P.E.I.) History. A history of Canoe Cove / Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island OCR scanning TEI encoding IslandLives, Robertson Library, University of PEI 2009 168967 Use of this resource is governed by the Canadian Copyright Act. Unless otherwise noted you must contact the rights holder(s) for permission to publish or reproduce this resource. A history of Canoe Cove / 103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Prince Edward Island ; 1992. This text was created as part of the IslandLives Project. Project description and participants are available at the project website at http://www.islandlives.ca. This electronic text file was created by the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. Typographical distinct text has not been identified. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Dates, personal, place and organizational names have been encoded. Library of Congress Subject Headings Canoe Cove (P.E.I.) History. A history of Canoe Cove / Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island OCR scanning TEI encoding IslandLives, Robertson Library, University of PEI 2009 168967 Use of this resource is governed by the Canadian Copyright Act. Unless otherwise noted you must contact the rights holder(s) for permission to publish or reproduce this resource. A history of Canoe Cove / 103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Prince Edward Island ; 1992. This text was created as part of the IslandLives Project. Project description and participants are available at the project website at http://www.islandlives.ca. This electronic text file was created by the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. Typographical distinct text has not been identified. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Dates, personal, place and organizational names have been encoded. Library of Congress Subject Headings Canoe Cove (P.E.I.) History. A history of Canoe Cove / Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island OCR scanning TEI encoding IslandLives, Robertson Library, University of PEI 2009 168967 Use of this resource is governed by the Canadian Copyright Act. Unless otherwise noted you must contact the rights holder(s) for permission to publish or reproduce this resource. A history of Canoe Cove / 103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Prince Edward Island ; 1992. This text was created as part of the IslandLives Project. Project description and participants are available at the project website at http://www.islandlives.ca. This electronic text file was created by the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. Typographical distinct text has not been identified. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Dates, personal, place and organizational names have been encoded. Library of Congress Subject Headings Canoe Cove (P.E.I.) History. A history of Canoe Cove / Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island OCR scanning TEI encoding IslandLives, Robertson Library, University of PEI 2009 168967 Use of this resource is governed by the Canadian Copyright Act. Unless otherwise noted you must contact the rights holder(s) for permission to publish or reproduce this resource. A history of Canoe Cove / 103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Prince Edward Island ; 1992. This text was created as part of the IslandLives Project. Project description and participants are available at the project website at http://www.islandlives.ca. This electronic text file was created by the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. Typographical distinct text has not been identified. Digital page images are linked to the text file. Dates, personal, place and organizational names have been encoded. Library of Congress Subject Headings Canoe Cove (P.E.I.) History. A History of The Naming of The story has been passed down that during the hostilities between Britain and France the Indians were on the side of the British. The French occupied , now Fort Amherst, at Rocky Point . Because of the French defense the British were not able to enter , so they anchored off what is now Canoe Cove. The Indians took the British soldiers ashore in their canoes and it is said that the soldiers gave the name Canoe Cove to our district. In Geographical Names of Prince Edward Island published by the Department of Mines and Resources Canada 1973 Alan Rayburn writes "Probably derived from French Anse Canot and probably given because the Indians portaged from there to West River ." Named by Holland in 1765 Allen Cove for either John Carter Allen who was present at the capture of Louisburg in 1756, or for Lieut. James Allen who was wounded there. Douglas 1925 has this as the correct name, but only Canoe Cove is used and this is shown in Wright 1852 and Meacham 1880. In Micmac Kweduna Walna, " Canoe Cove ". In Canoe Cove and in surrounding districts. Canoe Cove was often pronounced "Canna Cove". Where the local pronunciation "Canna" came from is not clear, it may have been the Gaelic influence. Canna or Canoe Cove, there is no place like it. If you were born here you will hear the surf pound and smell the salt water in your dreams for the rest of your life. Even your descendents will feel the pull of the Cove and its proud Scots heritage calling them back to its beauty and tranquillity.