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450 MAIN ST
Alberton,
Prince Edward Island
C0B 1B0
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Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : North Cape Coastal Drive
Description From Owner:
- In Cascumpec Bay, Lot 5. Named for Robert Oulton who with Charles Dalton raised silver foxes there from 1894. Meacham 1880 Savage Island. Known as Cherry Island when Oulton bought it.
- A small, undeveloped island off the north shores of P.E.I. where blue herons, bald eagles and double-crested cormorants nest is set to be purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and eventually placed under the full-time stewardship of the Mi'kmaq.
- The island, about 400 metres from Cascumpec Bay, has four kilometres of beach shoreline and supports salt marsh and freshwater wetland ecosystems and is also home to Acadian forests composed of jack pine, black spruce and white birch.
- About 90 per cent of Prince Edward Island is privately owned.
- With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011
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Co-founder of PEI's fox farming industry
In 1934 a single silver fox pelt sold at auction in London for the equivalent of $2,600 and in 1924 a pair of live silver foxes sold for $32,500.
That's the kind of money that generated from a partnership in 1894 between farmer Robert Trenholm Oulton (1835-1920) of Oulton Island and Charles Dalton of Tignish.
Their first profit came at a London auction in 1900 where a single silver fox pelt sold for $1,807. The partners tried to keep their venture secret, but by that year neighbours Silas Rayner, Benjamin Rayner, James Gordon and Robert Tuplin discovered it and wanted to buy in.
That year the Big Six Combine was formed with an agreement that no live foxes would be sold. A decade later Tuplin's nephew Robert broke the monopoly by selling a pair of foxes for $5,000.
Soon there were more than 3,000 foxes on 277 ranches. The industry boomed from then through the 1930s and then slowly died as fashions changed and a larger supply of pelts became available from Scandinavia.
Oulton was born and died in Little Shemogue, NB. With two wives he had a total of 14 children.
With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011
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