​Our eighth AGM will be held on Monday 17 July at 7 pm in the Bedeque Baptist Church. Historian and archivist Sharon Leighton, one of the founders of the Bedeque Museum, is the guest speaker and will give a talk on the history of the early Baptist Church in Bedeque.
Museum memberships for the current year are due from the beginning of July and may be renewed at the meeting (for individuals it is $20, for families or households, $25).  Bring your friends to the meeting and encourage them to support the Museum by becoming members.
The AGM will take place in the adjacent church hall after Sharon’s talk and includes the election of members of the Board.  The Board is always seeking new members. If you interested in local history and in the Bedeque Museum consider serving on the Board, and having your name put forward, you can have a word about it in advance with any of the present Board members whose names are listed below and whose telephone numbers are in the phonebook.
The present Board members are Lloyd MacCallum (President), Bill Callbeck (Vice-President), Don Jardine (Secretary), Susan Leard (Treasurer), Percy Affleck, Greg Corbett, Valerie Curtis, Tom Sherry, George Read, Earle Smith, Doug Sobey and Peter Vaniderstine.

​The Bedeque Museum is taking part in another activity funded by Canada 150, one that has been organized by the Community Museums Association of PEI.  As soon as you enter the Museum you will see a special display consisting of five objects from the Museum’s collection which have selected by us to tell an aspect of the history of Canada.  Our collection being Island-based means that most of the items chosen are specific to Island history, but then the Island has been part of Canada for 144 years, and so they qualify!  On your visit we want you to think about the contribution that each of these five objects has made to the history of the Island and so, of Canada.  We would also like you to think about the objects in today’s world that we should be collecting in order to preserve  our history to Canadians 100 years from now. We encourage you to come to the Museum to see the five items and to write down your thoughts.

This summer we are presenting a new exhibition to  commemorate the centenary of the first ferry crossing between ‘Port Borden’, Prince Edward Island and Cape Tormentine in New Brunswick.  Thereafter, for eighty years (from 1917 to 1997) ‘the Borden ferry’ was the principal means of transport to and from the mainland for Islanders and their goods.  The establishment of the service also led to the creation of ‘Port Borden’, which, because workers on the ferry wanted to be near their workplace, evolved into the town of Borden, which is today known as Borden-Carleton.  During the past winter, several Board members have been interviewing some of the many people who worked on the ferries and at the terminal.  One of these, Lorne Cousins, began work as far back as 1934, and was actually a tiny baby when the SS Prince Edward Island made that first crossing on 16 October 1917!  We will be displaying items from the collections of several past ferry workers and descendants of workers, as well as some items from the P.E.I. Museum.  We have also created ten posterboards telling the stories of the various vessels that served in the crossing and also of some of the people who worked on the service. 

​The exhibit will be officially opened on Saturday July 8 at 10.30 am and all members and friends, as well as the general public, are invited to this free event.  This exhibit is being funded in part by the government of Canada through the Canada 150 fund.