Green Park Provincial Park
People have gathered on these shores of Malpeque Bay for over 10,000 years. The Mi'kmaq, who called this bay Maqpa'q, fished and camped here long before European contact. In 1728, Acadian settlers arrived, raising farmsteads, a grist mill and a chapel along the shore between Gillis Point and Green Park. When a storm tore into the embankment in 1847, it revealed their lost cemetery, a place that locals had quietly honoured for generations as Pointe-aux-Vieux. That spirit of community has never left this area.
Another spirit altogether haunts Yeo House next door to the Green Park Provincial Park. Discovered inside its walls during a museum restoration, Wheelie (pictured below) is disfigured, unsettling and allegedly prone to moving through the house when no one is watching. In the early 2020s, a viral curator contest brought Wheelie global media attention. Today, Wheelie is so popular that he even has his own merch.
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Port Hill Schoolhouse
Built in 1876, this schoolhouse served the Port Hill community for nearly a century before closing in 1972 as school amalgamation. The Arethusa Craft Guild then used the building for classes and a shop while it operated. In 2001, the schoolhouse was moved to Green Park, where it now stands as part of the Shipbuilding Museum & Yeo House.
Lennox Island
On the other side of the park, along the Bideford River, is the Lennox Island First Nation. The island is home to the Lennox Island Cultural Centre and St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church, named for the patron saint of the Mi’kmaq.
Bideford Parsonage Museum
Less than 15 km from the park is this hidden gem and must-visit destination for LM Montgomery enthusiasts and history lovers. PEI’s most famed author lived here during her first teaching assignment on the Island in 1894-95. Take a tour for insights into the history of the parsonage, the community and, of course, Montgomery’s life and written works.
Green Park has always been a gathering place
Vintage photos provided by Margaret Lavictoire (above) and Dianne Smith (below).
