"I would call upon the government to stop playing politics and patronage with our heritage"

Don Campbell from Montague, PEI writes
as posted on The Guardian website

As for the artifactory moving to Murray River... A poor move. I don't like to denigrate Kings County, but as a heritage advocate, I think that it needs to be centrally stored and interpreted in a provincial capital.

There's a reason why the Royal Ontario Museum is in Toronto, the Royal Alberta Museum is in Edmonton, the Royal British Columbia Museum is in Victoria, The Rooms Provincial Museum is in St. John's, the Musée National is in Quebec City, the Manitoba Museum is in Winnipeg, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum is in Regina, etc. etc.

I would call upon the government to stop playing politics and patronage with our heritage. Do the right thing and get federal co-sharing and build a provincial museum and artifactory warehouse in Charlottetown.

Put one of the provincial community museums in Murray River or Murray Harbour. The railway museum in Elmira has been an atrocious failure, with poor interpretation, little volunteer expertise in railways, a tourist attraction miniature train added courtesy of our MP - they even neglected their railway cars so much that they rusted out and had to be scrapped on site, to the outcry of railway heritage advocates across Canada. It would be much better to have a *real* railway musuem with professional interpretation - Murray River or Murray Harbour could suit this purpose.

Anyway, I'm hoping Premier Binns and his government will avoid doing politics of old and do the right thing this time. A central provincial museum and artifactory in Charlottetown makes sense, provincially and nationally.