P.E.I.'s historic Glenaladale wins $15K prize in national contest

TheGlenaladaleHeritage Trust has been awarded $15,000 in the national heritage contest calledThis Place Matters.

• P.E.I.'s Glenaladale Estate seeks votes for national contest

• Heritage group hopes to preserve historic estate, brick by brick

The 1772 estate in Tracadie, P.E.I., is where Captain John MacDonaldbrought the first Scottish Catholic settlerstoP.E.I. Agroup is now working to restore the property.

"We were extremely excited," said Mary Bradley, who is on the board of the trust.

"We're really pleased with the number of votes we got," she added, noting more people have become aware of the project to restore Glenaladale.

Glenaladale was one of four eastern Canadian projects vying for the prize money, and won with more than 4,000 votes. The trust called its project "Glenaladale one brick at a time, our diamond in the rough."

The $15,000 will be used during phase one of the restoration, Bradley said, to repair the roof and floor joists of the 1899 Tracadie schoolhouse moved to the property in the 1970s. The schoolhouse will be moved one last timeto become a gateway to the historic property, housing artifacts of the site.

This Place Matters bills itself as Canada's first crowdfunding site dedicated to heritage.

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