Canada 150 Prince Edward Island
by Pat Katz
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Title
Canada 150 Prince Edward Island
Artist
Pat Katz
Medium
Painting - Watercolor & Ink
Description
It’s no accident that Prince Edward Island led the line up for my Canada 150 Sesquicentennial paintings. My prairie roots reach all the way across the country to New Perth, near Montague, on the eastern end of the island.
My maternal grandfather, John St Clair Hamilton, was born in New Perth in 1884. He came west and homesteaded at Viscount, Saskatchewan in 1910. It was here that he met and married my grandmother, and raised five daughters including my mom, Ruth.
I first set foot on PEI in the early 1970’s, when I travelled to attend a University Student Conference in Charlottetown. During that visit my mom’s cousin, Ola, toured me around the island – including visits to the original family stomping grounds and the seaside. I remember being fascinated by the lighthouses with their varied shapes and sizes.
A decade later my husband and I spent a few days on PEI in the month of June. The lupins bloomed in the ditches from one end of the island to the other. We enjoyed seeing them almost as much as we enjoyed eating the lobster.
A Prince Edward Island spruce tree towers over the front of our home here in Saskatoon. My mom pulled that little spruce sapling from the ditch in PEI on one of her visits to the island. We planted it here in Saskatoon, never expecting it to survive the winter. It’s now over 30 feet in height –a testament to PEIslander hardiness.
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