Tignish Shore Lighthouse
Located at Fishermans Haven Park, Tignish Shore PEI, this lovely lighthouse is open for tours, and houses a quaint giftshop stocked with local crafts and products. Click to read more>>
Seaweed Pie!
How is Seaweed Pie made? What is seaweed used for, and how is it harvested? The Irish Moss Interpretive Centre and Seaweed Pie Restaurant in Miminegash PEI can answer those questions. Click to read more>>
1st Annual MacLeods Ledge Bluefin Tuna Cup Challenge
Find out why Tignish, Prince Edward Island is fast becoming known as one of the best Giant Bluefin Tuna fishing places in the World! Click to read more>>
PEI Irish Heritage Festival 2012
John McDermott and Rawlins Cross are only 2 of the excellent performers scheduled for the 2012 Irish Heritage Festival in Tignish PEI. Visit the blog post here, grab a schedule, and plan a visit! Camping and other accomodations available. Click to read more>>
Feeding the Giants, a Unique PEI Experience!
Join Captain Kenny on a high seas adventure to find and feed the Giant Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna! Click to read more>>
Tignish Heritage Inn and Gardens
Check out the blog and pictures of the Tignish Heritage Inn and Gardens; a surprising landmark that started with an idea in the mid 1800s and is still going today. Read the history, then plan a visit! Click to read more>>
2012 Red Clay Bluegrass Festival
Come on out to the Red Clay Bluegrass Festival! Many wonderful performers, including Ray Legere & Acoustic Horizon, Bluegrass Diamonds, The Douthwrights, Janet McGarry & Wildwood, and more! Click to read more>>
Tignish Film Workshop: Seats still Available!
If you couldn’t get to the meeting with CanadianFrame(lines) producers Ryder White and Alexandra Caulfield at the Tignish Heritage Inn last night, never fear!
There are still plenty of seats left if you are interested in signing up for their Film Workshop on Saturday here in Tignish. If you would like to learn how to use an 8mm analogue video camera and shoot a small clip of your own, Email: alexandra.r.caulfield@gmail.com or call Tel: 778-239-0572 or 604-788-0789 and Alexandra & Ryder will be happy to figure out a schedule that will work with you for the lesson and help with developing the film in their travelling workshop aka “Black Bus”!
Canadian Frame(lines) Film Workshop Info Meeting, Wed May 8th
Do you know the Tignish Area? Canadian Frame(lines) wants you!
Filmmakers Alexandra Caulfield and Ryder White have travelled across the country setting up film workshops, and they need your help to make some movies here in West Prince.
Interested participants will learn a bit about filmmaking and then will have the opportunity to make their own short films about life in their communities, all of which will be screened in town at the end of the month.
Participation is free and is open to people of all ages (under 15 please have a parent with you), skill levels, and backgrounds. You don’t need to have touched a camera before–they still want to hear from you!
Anyone interested should attend a brief info session meeting and signup at the Tignish Heritage Inn Meeting Room on Wednesday, May 8 at 7pm or, if you can’t make it but still want to participate, get in touch by emailing canadianframelines@gmail.com or by calling Ryder at 604-788-0789.
Of the 12 stops on the Canadian Frame(lines) voyage, Tignish is the only one on the Island – don’t miss it!
The Battle of the Atlantic Remembrance, Sun. May 5th, Tignish PEI
The general public is invited to attend the Battle of the Atlantic commemoration ceremony and parade.
The Battle of Atlantic Remembrance will be held at Tignish run (north block) on Sunday 05 May 2013. HMCS Queen Charlotte Naval Reserve unit from Charlottetown are hosting this event along with the Tignish Legion.
The event starts at 12:15 with the laying of a wreath in memory of sailors, soldiers and airmen killed during this battle. Local fishermen Kenneth LeClair has volunteered to use his boat to transport Padre Davis and Father Bud Gallant out to sea for the laying of the wreath.
Canadian Frame(lines) is in Tignish!
Yes, that black bus in town belongs to the Canadian Frame(lines) crew Alexandra and Ryder, who are on a cross-country trip to explore small town Canada and learn more about the people and places as they give 12 local film workshops in 12 different provinces. Participants learn the essentials of filmmaking, shoot a short film of their own, and screen it right there in their communities. “It’s part of an effort to take a wider view of community life and Canadian cultural identity through the eyes of Canadians from across the whole country.” Final screening attendees also get to view the films created by previous participants across Canada.
Alexandra Caulfield and Ryder White started the project in Pender Harbour, BC, and moved from there to Cremona, Alta, Gravelbourg, SK, St. Stephen, NB, and are here in Tignish PEI, staying by the Tignish Heritage Inn for the next 2 weeks.
They are interested in all that the Tignish Area has to offer, and are presently drafting up a list of places to see and things to do, so if you would like to show them around, have them over for a lobster feed, a cup of tea and stories of the old days, or throw a good old fashioned kitchen party for them, either knock on the bus doors, flag them down, email them at canadianframelines@gmail.com or call 882-2392. Either way, if you see them, say a big “Hello!” and mark Wed May 8th, 7pm on your calendar for the public meeting, (@ the Heritage Inn) info session and signup for the film workshop.
For more info on this project, visit http://www.canadianframelines.com/, read the blogs, (they are interesting and fun!) visit their Youtube channel, & add them on Twitter.
Spring is Nearly Here! (Technically it *IS*, but We Know Better)
The ice in the straight is melting and soon (hopefully!) we will see the mud dry up, the grass turn green, and crocuses and tulips poking up.
Some of you may be lucky already with that, but I can guarantee you, no sign yet at my place.
I hope you have all had a decent winter, and are starting to think ahead to 2013 Tourist Season, about how your business can adapt to meet the changes in how potential clients find you, and even simpler yet, find OUT about you.
The Internet is playing a much bigger part in how people get their travel, lodging, attractions and food info than ever before. 2013 will see some more huge leaps in mainstream adoption of many more mobile tech gadgets and applications, and this needs to be taken seriously by those who will be trying to attract these customers.
Smartphones and tablets are no longer a novelty. Visitors to the area and local residents will more than likely be using a Smartphone, standing on the sidewalk in the middle of town, looking on Twitter and TripAdvisor for GPS Location-Based suggestions on Where to go, What to do, Where to stay, and What to eat. You really want to position your business so that you pop up on their screen. If not, they *WILL* see someone else’s business, and you could lose a potential client.
Canadian Pickers wants YOU! (and your stuff)
Anna Kowalski, Associate Producer of History Television’s hit series “Canadian Pickers” tells us that they’d love to visit the Tignish Area, if there are any “any big time collectors” in the area.
Specifically, they are looking for private collectors (not stores) with quantity and quality.
If you have, or know someone who has a collection of unique old things, (like buddy down the road with the barn full of ‘stuff’) that you think might like the Canadian Picker team to stop buy and check it out, and maybe buy some, on TV, here is what they are looking for:
- The name of the collector
- The phone number/email/address of the collector
- What type of collection the collector has
- Where they keep the collection (How it is stored, like barn, or building)
- How big the collection is
They like antiques, from old radios, to weathervanes, sewing machines, signs, memorabilia, and more. I’ve seen the show, they are great guys, and it would be fun and exciting to have them visit the area and film a show here, so let’s find them some collectables to pick!
Anna did mention that they were on a tight deadline to plan, so the sooner we can get back to her, the better.
You can email her the info: Anna Kowalski akowalski@cineflix.com , or call me (Kim) at 882-2392 if you have any questions. [sendtokindle]