P.E.I. Historic and Reproduction Clothing

This blog displays the various period reproduction projects and events I am involved in. I have been collecting historic clothing, and making reproduction period clothing, since the summer I portrayed the Father of Confederation Andrew A. MacDonald for the 125th Anniversary celebrations of the birth of Canada. This blog began in 2010 to mark the 100th Anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's marriage and our reproduction project creating the outfits in her wedding trousseau.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Fox Hunt in Pleasant Valley, PEI

On Saturday, October 22nd the PEI Fox Hunt Club held their fall hunt on our farm in Pleasant Valley. They assembled below our house in the front field. My niece Tammy and I served Port, Sherry and pound cake before the hunt.

Tammy is wearing a green plaid dress /w hoop we created this dress a few years ago - it's one of our favourites.

Below: our house was built about a mile away on the main highway in 1864. In 1999 I saved the house from destruction, moved it to our family farm and restored it, adding the sunroom, porch and garage. This house was built by my great-great-grandparents Robert & Jane (Jeffery) Sharpe and called it Pleasant Hill Farm.

No fox (or any other animal) was harmed in this hunt - a drag with scent was used to mark the hunt trail.

By mid afternoon the hunt was finished and a potluck followed in our family room.