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unusual facts about Montague, Prince Edward Island


Pesticides in Canada

For example, in Montague on Prince Edward Island, nine fish kills happened in one year: every fish, snake, and snail was killed in a river called Sutherland's Hole near potato farms from which herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides ran off after heavy rains.


1822 in Canada

November 1 - Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)

2008–09 Florida Panthers season

The trip included the first ever NHL game played on Prince Edward Island, against the New York Islanders.

2010 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The 2010 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held Jan. 2-5 in at the Montague Curling Club in Montague, Prince Edward Island.

Ambrose D. Richard

Richard was educated at St. Joseph's College there, at St. Dunstan's College in Prince Edward Island and at Boston University.

Aretas William Young

In 1826, Young was made protector of slaves in Demerara and in 1831 was nominated to become Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island off Canada following the sudden death of Sir Murray Maxwell, who briefly held the role.

Babysitter Wanted

Big Screen Entertainment Group produced the film under the direction of Barnes and Manasseri on the filming locations in Lake Shastina, Montague, Weed and Yreka, California.

Benvolio

Benvolio is Lord Montague's nephew and Romeo's cousin, with a distant relation with Paris on the part of his father's divorced wife.

Bob MacMillan

MacMillan served in the Prince Edward Island legislature from 2000–2003, as part of Pat Binns's Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island government.

Evelyn Aubrey Montague

His son, after reading screenwriter Colin Welland's query article in a London newspaper, offered them to Welland — who used them, and Montague, as a means to introduce scenes and connect events in the movie.

Frank Montague Moore

The Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding paintings by Frank Montague Moore.

George Owen Johnson

There was a school named in his honour at the The Royal Canadian Air Force base and training school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

In re Ross

Although Ross accepted the commutation, he later sought a writ of habeas corpus for his release on the grounds that having been born on Prince Edward Island he was a British subject and so not subject to the consular tribunal.

James J. Montague

Together with Montague, New York theater impresario John Golden organized the "Knot-Very Social and Musical Frat."

John Angus Weir

Weir died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Kris Lemche

Abandoning plans to study biochemistry in University, Lemche instead moved to Prince Edward Island to work on the CBC series Emily of New Moon.

Laura Smith

She continued to work through the 2000s including two seasons on stage in Prince Edward Island in the role of Marilla in the musical Anne & Gilbert at the Victoria Playhouse in Victoria-by-the-Sea and the Jubilee Theatre in Summerside respectively.

Lerici

Orczy and her husband Montague Barstow spent several months there in the 1930s – alternating between La Padula, Villa Bijou in Monte Carlo, and trips to Britain.

Lionel Cranfield

Monty Cranfield, Lionel Montague Cranfield, (1909–1993), Gloucestershire cricketer and son of Lionel Cranfield (cricketer)

Mademoiselle Juliette

Lyrically, the song "Mademoiselle Juliette" portray Juliet Capulet from Romeo and Juliet, the drama by William Shakespeare, as a girl who would rather party than worry about the Montague-Capulet dispute.

Montagu House

Montagu House, Bloomsbury, the first home of the British Museum, also known as Montague House

Montague Airport

Turners Falls Airport in Montague, Massachusetts, United States (FAA: 0B5)

Montague Garrard Drake

Montague Garrard Drake (1692-1728), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.

Montague Shearman

The Montague Shearman Collection contains such famous painters as Picasso, Dalí, Matisse, Utrillo, Sisley, Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Lautrec, Rowlandson and many others.

Montague Summers

Montague Summers also produced important studies of the Gothic fiction genre and edited two collections of Gothic horror short stories, as well as an incomplete edition of two of the seven obscure Gothic novels, known as the Northanger Horrid Novels, mentioned by Jane Austen in her Gothic parody Northanger Abbey.

Montague, Massachusetts

Montague has claimed to be the location of a maple tree that inspired poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) to write the popular 1913 poem "Trees", however family accounts and documents establish the poem was written in Mahwah, New Jersey.

Moonshine River

Then, the manager announces that the showing, Romeo and Juliet, will not be played tonight, as the actors portraying the Montague and Capulet families - the Baldwin and the Estevez brothers - are at a feud with one another.

Phillips Callbeck

Phillips Callbeck (c. 1744 – January 28, 1790) was a merchant, lawyer and political figure in St. John's Island (later Prince Edward Island).

RCAF Station Mount Pleasant

RCAF Station Mount Pleasant was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station in Mount Pleasant, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Redheaded slut

On Prince Edward Island, a redheaded slut is a mix of Vodka, Sour Puss, and Raspberry Cordial, a carbonated raspberry soda named for the drink from Anne of Green Gables.

Richard Montague

Montague, one of Tarski's most accomplished American students, spent his entire career teaching in the UCLA Department of Philosophy, where he supervised the dissertations of Nino Cocchiarella and Hans Kamp.

Robert Miller Montague

After retiring from the Army the younger Montague served as executive director of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and the Special Olympics.

Ryan Anstey

In 2010 Anstey was a member of the Churchill Arms team that captured the Canadian National Challenge Cup at the BMO National Championships hosted in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Shepton Montague Railway Cutting

Shepton Montague Railway Cutting, which was part of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, exposes the most important known section of Fuller's Earth Rock (Middle Jurassic) in England.

Sidney Root

Root was born in Montague in western Massachusetts, but early in his life his family moved to Vermont, where his boyhood days were spent in the shadow of the Green Mountains.

Somerton Castle

The property and estate were later bought by the notable Lincolnshire and Sussex landowners, Marfleet Battle in 1812, from Sir Montague Cholmondeley, Baronet.

Sooty Albatross

This albatross nests on islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean (Gough Island and the Tristan da Cunha group) and Indian Ocean (Prince Edward Island, Marion Island, the Crozet Islands, Amsterdam Island, and Kerguelen Islands).

St. John's Island

Prince Edward Island, which was known as St. John's Island before November 29, 1798

Stephen Montague

In addition, Montague has created multi-channel electroacoustic sound environments in collaboration with the sculptor, Maurice Agis, and composed a number of music theatre works for outside spaces such as his Horn Concerto for klaxon horn and an orchestra of automobiles.

Sydney Sturgess

She carried a distinguished Canadian ancestry - her great-grandfather was Edward Palmer, Q.C., of Prince Edward Island, who was also one of the Fathers of Confederation.

The April Storm

The April Storm, initially a demo recording, is the 2003 debut EP by Two Hours Traffic, a Canadian indie rock, power pop band from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

The Equals

Eddy Grant – guitar (born Edmond Montague Grant, 5 March 1948, Plaisance, Guyana)

The Way We Live Now

He sets out to woo rich and powerful investors by hosting a lavish party, and finds an appropriate investment vehicle when he is approached by a young engineer, Paul Montague, and his American partner, Hamilton K. Fisker, to invest in the construction of a new railway line running from Salt Lake City to Veracruz, Mexico.

Tiffany Montague

Montague grew up in the UK, travelling to the United States at age 16 to attend Smith College where she joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Mensa.

William Cobbold

"The best type of forward player," wrote Montague Shearman in 1887, "is the fast, sturdy man of medium height, like W.N. Cobbold the Cantab."


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