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2 unusual facts about Stratford, Prince Edward Island


Hangman Hughes

Born in Stratford, Prince Edward Island, Hughes met Edge, Christian and Glen Kulka at a local gym while touring Canadian independent promotions during the late 1990s.

Mozzi Gyorio

Gyorio moved to Canada with his parents when he was a small child, settling in Stratford, Prince Edward Island.


2008–09 Florida Panthers season

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

21 July 2005 London bombings

The vehicle involved was Stagecoach London Dennis Trident 2 (17762, LX03 BUU), identical in type to the bus destroyed on 7/7, and based at the same depot; Stratford (SD).

Allman

William Allman Memorial Arena, an ice hockey arena in Stratford, Ontario, Canada

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.

Amory-Ticknor House

Raymond, Marcius D. Sketch of Rev. Blackleach Burritt and related Stratford families : a paper read before the Fairfield County Historical Society, at Bridgeport, Conn., Friday evening, Feb. 19, 1892.

André Tchaikowsky

In 2008, the skull was finally held by David Tennant in a series of performances of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

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.

Arts Educational Schools, London

The school was first based in premises at Stratford Place in London, but following the outbreak of World War II, the school was relocated to Tring in Hertfordshire, where it shared premises with the Rothschild Bank in the mansion at Tring Park.

Arundel Cathedral

Stratford was educated at St. Joseph's Catholic College, Bradford and then at the University of Huddersfield winning scholarships for voice, composition and organ from the RCO and other trusts.

Bob Beckham

Robert Joseph Beckham (July 8, 1927 – November 11, 2013) was an American country singer from Stratford, Oklahoma.

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.

British Rail Class 166

Their main destinations included fast-trains to Reading, Newbury and Oxford, with some services continuing beyond Oxford to Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon, or along the Cotswold Line to Evesham, Worcester, Great Malvern and Hereford.

Cardiff, New Zealand

Cardiff was one of the constituent dairy co-operatives (the others being Eltham, Stratford, and Normanby) who combined to form the Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Co.

Dracula: The Series

Other notables included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from Prison Break) and Barry Morse (from The Fugitive and Space: 1999), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from Degrassi: The Next Generation), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine.

Dudley Canal

Traffic through the new tunnel was meagre until 1802, when the Stratford Canal provided a link to the Warwick and Birmingham Canal (later the Grand Union Canal), and hence to London.

Elliott Hayes

Elliott Hayes was born in Stratford, Ontario to a theatrical family, the grandson of classical actor George Hayes and the son of John Sullivan Hayes, one of the original company members of the Stratford Festival.

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.

GWR 4900 Class 4965 Rood Ashton Hall

The engine operates in its Great Western Railway green livery, and performs regularly on the Shakespeare Express, operated by Vintage Trains, between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as various excursions.

Henry Burling

He was born in Stratford, Essex, England on 1 May 1801 to Thomas Burling, a soap maker, and Joanna Pike.

Hugh Clopton

In 1504 William had livery of his great-uncle Hugh's manors of Clopton and Little Wilmcote, and his lands in Stratford and Bridgetown.

Hugh Clopton was born about 1440 at Clopton House near Stratford-upon-Avon, where the Clopton family had settled in the thirteenth century in the reign of Henry III.

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.

John Kani

The Tempest (2008) (actor in the role of Caliban, at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town; Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; and tour of Richmond, Leeds, Bath, Nottingham, Sheffield)

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

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.

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080–1118) Henry I's consort, who between 1110 and 1118 was responsible for the building of the series of bridges that carried the London-Colchester road across the River Lea and its side streams between Bow and Stratford.

Long Marston, Warwickshire

William Shakespeare is said to have joined a party of Stratford folk which set itself to outdrink a drinking club at Bidford­-on-Avon, and as a result of his labours in that regard to have fallen asleep under the crab tree of which a descendant is still called Shakespeare's tree.

Lycoming T53

It was designed at the Lycoming Turbine Engine Division in Stratford, Connecticut by a team headed by Anselm Franz, who was the chief designer of the famed Junkers Jumo 004 during World War II.

Melissa Walton

Walton studied at Bablake School in Coundon, Coventry, then took a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at Stratford-upon-Avon College, which she passed with three distinctions.

Middle Quinton

About two-thirds of the site is in Warwickshire and one-third in Worcestershire and lies in both the parliamentary constituencies of Stratford-upon-Avon and Mid-Worcestershire, represented by Nadhim Zahawi MP and Peter Luff MP respectively.

Neil Bartram

With book writer Brian Hill, Neil is currently developing Not Wanted On The Voyage (which is being workshopped as part of Northwestern University’s AMTP project under the direction of Amanda Dehnert) and Clara’s Piano (workshopped in July 2008 by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival with director and conceiver Susan H. Schulman).

Nora Nicholson

In April 1912 Nicholson made her professional stage debut, playing Dolly Clandon in Benson's production of Shaw's You Never Can Tell at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Pebworth

William Shakespeare is said to have joined a party of Stratford folk which set itself to outdrink a drinking club at Bidford­-on-Avon, and as a result of his labours in that regard to have fallen asleep under the crab tree of which a descendant is still called Shakespeare's Tree.

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).

Quidem

Stations for Banbury, Stratford, Warwick, Rugby and Coventry transmit from Honiley, Warwickshire, whilst services for Hinckley, Loughborough and Tamworth emanate from Coalville, Leicestershire.

Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust

was formed and AB745 was transported to its new home at the old railway goods shed at Stratford, where it was being restored.

River Stour, Warwickshire

The A3400 road roughly follows the course of the river to Stratford-upon-Avon, through the villages of Halford, Alderminster, Newbold-on-Stour, Atherstone-on-Stour and Clifford Chambers.

Robin Langford

Known for his acting performances at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company in Stratford-upon-Avon to the Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia at the age of 12, to his first film, at the age of 12 as Elizabeth Taylor’s son (with Richard Burton, Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Peter Ustinov).

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.

Ryan Hreljac

Ryan graduated St. Michael's Catholic High School in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada in June 2009.

Sheila Mercier

After education at the French Convent, Hull and Hunmanby Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, she trained for the stage at the Stratford-upon-Avon College of Drama.

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).

Stratford High Street DLR station

This avoided the need to take land from Rokeby School whilst also enabling the station to be located close to Stratford High Street.

Stratford-upon-Avon Canal

Josiah Clowes was employed as the engineer, and construction began in November 1793, starting at the Kings Norton end.

The Cornish Trilogy

Their first essay into the world of humanist patronage is to support a precocious composer in completing an unfinished opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann entitled Arthur of Britain, or the Magnanimous Cuckold, and then bringing it to the stage at Stratford, Ontario.

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi

His concert performances have taken him around the world with the most important orchestras (ORTF, Berlin Radio Symphony, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Rotterdam, London, Chicago, Indianapolis, Toronto and Vancouver philharmonic orchestras, etc.) and has participated in numerous festivals like the Algoma Fall, Banff, Guelph Spring, Ontario Place, Stratford and Ravinia.

Tyseley railway station

It is situated at the junction of the lines from Birmingham towards Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, and is adjacent to a large railway depot and Tyseley Locomotive Works.

William Needles

Asked how he acquired his skills, he credits the initial Stratford company of actors gathered by Tyrone Guthrie, including such notables as Sir Alec Guinness, Irene Worth, and Douglas Campbell (actor).


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