Wyatt Heritage Properties

Hit the streets for a walk through history. Summerside is well known throughout Canada for its splendid nineteenth century and early twentieth century residential architecture. Its heritage houses have many stories to tell, and represent the stylistic trends which prevailed at different stages in the community's development. This walking tour through the Historic House District and along the Water Street Commercial District will introduce you to many of Summerside's beautiful heritage buildings.

Wooden Sidewalks of Central Street looking North.
Circa 1900-1906, MHCA Collection

THE NORTH TOUR | Start this Tour!
This tour takes you through tree-lined streets, past stately 1890s Queen Annes, and the Four Squares and Colonial Revivals of merchants and fox men. It carries you past Parkside Elementary, originally the Davies School, a 120 year-old school and past the house where its first principal lived. The North Tour guides you along historic Beaver Street, and past Prince County Courthouse, to name a few of the highlights. This tour is 2.3 kilometers and has 19 properties.

THE SOUTH TOUR | Start this Tour!
This tour takes you through the oldest section of the city, the "Old Village" that developed between Queen's Wharf and Joseph Greene's Inn. Along this tour you will find buildings with a high shipbuilding heritage, the Gothic Revivals, and Georgians. The tour carries you along Water Street, the commercial core of this "City on the Bays", and past some of our oldest public buildings. This tour is 1.5 kilometers long and has 18 properties.

Councillor Brent Gallant, Faye Pound, and Herb Schurman: three key individuals developing the tour.