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Summerside, PEI (Nearby: Sherbrooke, Linkletter, Miscouche, Bedeque and Area, Borden-Carleton)

454 GRANVILLE STREET
Summerside, Prince Edward Island
C1N 0A0

Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Green Gables Shore

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3 mi NE of Summerside in Lot 19. Named for a public house owned by a Mr. Baker c1810 halfway between Malpeque and Bedeque Bays.
The government also had a rest house established here for travellers according to Douglas 1925. P.O. 1827-1917.
John Townsend, the first postmaster, is said to have opened a public house called Travellers Rest in 1826. Formerly known as Townsend's Corner.

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Nearby:	Summerside, 0km Holman Island, 2km Wilmot (Summerside), 2km Sherbrooke, 3km St. Eleanors, 3km Reads Corner, 3km Linkletter, 4km Slemon Park, 5km North St. Eleanors, 6km Lower Bedeque, 6km Linkletter Provincial Park, 5km Lennox Island 6, 8km North Bedeque, 6km Murray Island, 7km Fernwood, 8km Lot 17, 6km Lower New Annan, 7km	New Annan, 6km Mary Fraser Island, 8km Bedeque, 8km Miscouche, 7km Chelton Provincial Park, 9km Ross Corner, 8km Belmont Lot 16, 10km Wilmot Valley, 7km Bedeque and Area, 9km Rosehill, 9km Mills Point, 9km Chelton, 11km Central Bedeque, 9km Little Courtin Island, 13km Central Lot 16, 11km Clermont, 10km Lot 26, 10km	Lot 19, 10km Seabrook, 10km Lower Freetown, 10km Belmont Provincial Park, 14km Courtin Island, 14km Indian River, 12km Hamilton, 13km Lot 25, 10km Searletown, 13km Lower Hamilton, 14km North Carleton, 14km Southwest Lot 16, 13km Kelvin Grove, 11km Ram Island (Malpeque Bay), 16km Kensington, 12km Grog Island, 16km