Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island

Location of Fortune Bridge in Prince Edward Island

Fortune Bridge is a small unincorporated area on Lot 43, East Parish, King County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located west of the Town of Souris.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Author Elmer Blaney Harris built a summer home and founded an artist colony in Fortune Bridge. Local residents, including Lydia Dingwell (1852-1931) of nearby Dingwells Mills, would be the inspiration for his play Johnny Belinda.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] The home was later owned by actress Colleen Dewhurst and is now an inn and restaurant made famous by its one-time chef Michael Smith.

Postal information

Fortune Bridge had its own post office from 1889 to until 1914. The postal code for Fortune Bridge is C0A 2B0 and the following are rural route addresses for the community: Souris Rural Route 4.^[8]

Education

The Commission scolaire de langue française school of École La-Belle-Cloche is located here.

References

↑ Search for Fortune Bridge at Canadian Geographical Names
↑ Fortune Bridge at Statistics Canada
↑ Fortune Bridge at The Communities of Eastern Kings
↑ Bio @ The Official Elmer Blaney Harris Homepage
↑ Elmer Harris @ Internet Broadway Database
↑ Elmer Harris at the Internet Movie Database
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- Johnny Belinda at the Internet Movie Database
↑ Fortune Bridge at PEI Place Finder

Subdivisions of Prince Edward Island

Subdivisions	Counties Parishes Townships Municipalities Population centres

Cities	Charlottetown Summerside

Towns	Alberton Borden-Carleton Cornwall Georgetown Kensington Montague North Rustico O'Leary Souris Stratford

Incorporated communities	Abrams Village Afton Alexandra Annandale-Little Pond-Howe Bay Bedeque and Area Belfast Bonshaw Brackley Breadalbane Brudenell Cardigan Central Kings Clyde River Crapaud Darlington Eastern Kings Ellerslie-Bideford Grand Tracadie Greenmount-Montrose Hampshire Hazelbrook Hunter River Kingston Kinkora Lady Slipper Linkletter Lorne Valley Lot 11 and Area Lower Montague Malpeque Bay Meadowbank Miltonvale Park Miminegash Miscouche Morell Mount Stewart Murray Harbour Murray River New Haven-Riverdale North Shore North Wiltshire Northport Pleasant Grove Resort Municipality Sherbrooke Souris West St. Felix St. Louis St. Nicholas St. Peters Bay Tignish Tignish Shore Tyne Valley Union Road Valleyfield Victoria Warren Grove Wellington West River Winsloe South York

Unincorporated communities	Bedeque Belmont Cavendish Central Bedeque Foxley River Freeland Hebron Knutsford Long River Mont-Carmel

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Coordinates: 46°21′00″N 62°23′00″W / 46.35000°N 62.38333°W / 46.35000; -62.38333 (Fortune Bridge)

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