TOURISM

For many years, the beautiful beaches of the North Shore have attracted visitors from Charlottetown and other areas. The Shaws, the

MacMillians, the MacCallums, and the Leitchs opened their attractive

farm homes for summer guests.

Shawls Hotel and MacCallum's (The Firs) are still operated by the same families. The Leitch property of "Glencorse" is the site of the New Stanhope Golf and Country Club. The MacMilian hotel "Point Plesant", now known as Stanhope Beach Inn, was the home of James Curtis, the second land agent for Lord Montgomery. It is recorded in

Meacham's 1880 atlas that the hotel had been newly opened.

In 1904, W. H. Croskill, official court stenographer and legis-

lative librarian published a handbook in which he noted the tourist

industry in the area as follows;

"The majority of tourists, however, go to the North Shore - the concave side of this sun-kissed crescent - to revel in the surf and strong air of that famous region. At Tracadie Beach, Stanhope, Brackley Beach, Rustico and Malpeque are located respectively the ”Acadia", Mutch's Hotel, the Cliff House,

Shaw's Hotel, the "Seaside" and the North Shore. These houses

are delightfully situated on pretty landlocked bays, where boating, still-water bathing, shooting, fishing, tennis, croquet, and pleasant drives on roads which wind through moist cool glades may be enjoyed ad libitum. And beyond the bars and the sand dunes

the foam-capped surf rolls, and sprays miles of beaches, white

and firm, affording the finest sea-bathing in America. The average temperature of the water is about 65 degrees. Out in

the Gulf, for those who fancy it, and within an hours sail, can

be had deep sea fishing with the hardy toilers of the North Bay.

SR