Province House National Historic Site. A lovely classic building that houses some of Canada's early history. This is the site of the 1864 meetings that led to Canada's Confederation in 1867. The Prince Edward Island Provincial Legislature still meets in the building. It is interesting that P.E.I. was not one of the 'original 4' that joined together in Confederation. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario were the 1st 4 with P.E.I following in 1873.
One of the things we wanted to do while in Charlottetown was find the Elections Canada Office and arrange to be able to do an early vote for the Election called for October 14th. Once we found the office in the old Canada Post Building, we had to show a piece of photo identification with our Langley address on it. We were given the ballot voting slip of paper that was to be enclosed in three different envelops. It would be mailed to Ottawa once we had entered our choice, then from Ottawa the next envelop would be sent to the Langley Polling Station and then after the Polls closed on October 14th, the last envelop would be opened and our vote counted. It is quite a process of checks and rechecks, and once we had them in our hot little hands there is no way we or anyone else could turn up to vote for us in Langley.
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