14 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

House of Assembly meet annually for the consideration of public affairs. The Colonial Building, in which the Legislative councils are held; the Post Office, and the Supreme Court building are situated in Queen Square Gardens, in the centre of the city. The gardens are under the supervision of a skilful man ; and, during the s u m mer, when “the breath of flowerspe

fumes the

air,”

sent an al-

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t o g e t h er charming scene ; far different from the for- saken look which used to mark the square, some ten or fifteen . years ago. Here during the long, summer evenings, are given free,

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open-air concerts, the music being furnished by the Citizen’s Band, or by one of the bands attached to the local battalions of Militir. On these occasions the population

—especially the younger genera- E tion—makes a big turnout, and a (I; (t

continuous promenade is kept up fa

as long as the musical programme I): I

lasts. 1 1:?

One of the sights of Chariotie- :7)

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town is its market. This fact is impressed upon the mind when a vixit is paid to the Market Build- ing; where, on Tuesdays and on Fridays, in every week, the farm( rs and their wives, or their sons and their daughters, come in

from the country round about, and display for sale the products of their farms, market—gardens, and

dairies, and all the other articles of food which the Island yields in great abundance, in their proper season. Inside the buiIding, on the ground floor, the butchers and the market-gardeners have their stalls ; upstairs the space is given up to the women, who although doing business on a smaller scale than the occupants of the lower story, make the "up-stairs market” a feature of Charlottown, that, during the season of travel,