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Some of the best visual recordings of early Charlottetown come from the hand of Robert Harris The watercolour sketch of the city (below) dates from about 1869, and shows the timber spires of St
- . Dunstan's Cathedral St
Paul's Parish Church, and the Kirk of St. James (all three have since been replaced by stone buildings). As a teenager Robert Harris was employed by surveyor Henry Cundall, and a carefully drawn map of the city dates from this period. These and other pencil and watercolour drawings of Charlottetown, as well as later oil paintings of the city by Robert, form part of the Permanent Collection at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, and are often on show in the Gallery. In the 18805 and 18905 Ned Harris, the younger brother of Robert and William, who was born in Charlottetown in 1861, took photographs of Charlottetown. The picture (right) of the children of Tom and Henrietta (Haszard) Harris, and Margaret Ellin (Harris) and Will Cotton, playing with some fi-iends in the front yard of Hawthorne Villa (see page 18), is reproduced from an old print made on blue paper from Ned's camera. In the backgron is the steeple of the Kirk of St. James (left), and on the right the roof of St. Peter's Cathedral.