PEI B&B in Anne's Land, Prince Edward Island, Canada

A Bed and Breakfast in PEI with a Green Acres Theme

Greenvale Acres has a History; read about our house

A warm welcome to our PEI century home, boasts Island hospitality alongside peace and tranquillity. Your stay on our Island wouldn't be complete unless we share our home and friendly atmosphere from Greenvale Acres B and B.

Let me take you back a few years, 1965 in fact: Do you remember the sitcom Green Acres, which was derived from the show Beverly Hillbillies with Buddy Ebsen? How about Petticoat Junction: "Come ride a little train as it's rollin' down the track to the Junction, Petticoat Junction." Although we don't have a wood burning stove in our kitchen and our house doesn't look anything like the Shady Rest Hotel, we guarantee you a warm welcome and a pleasant stay here at Greenvale Acres Bed and Breakfast. Visit other interesting links to these sitcoms and then visit our themed guest rooms
Beverly Hills, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction.

You're all invited back again to this locality,
T'have a heapin' helpin' of our hospitality.
Greenvale Acres, that is! Set a spell, Take your shoes off!
Y'all come back now, ya hear!

While here, walk through our flower gardens, amongst the apple trees or relax on our garden swing and enjoy a spectacular view of rolling hills. When evening rolls around you can sit by a backyard fire and gaze in amazement at our beautiful star-filled skies. Living in the country, our skies aren't cluttered with city lights and this makes for an awesome view of the stars above.

Returning from an adventurous day, you definitely will have the best sleep ever on our comfortable Sears, top of the line beds, you might want to enjoy one of our other amenities before turning in for the night. Each BnB room is specially decorated with comfort in mind to ensure a remembered stay.

Here to greet you when you arrive may be one of your hosts, Cindy, Guy, Victoria or Matthew. Cindy and Victoria are Certified Atlantic Canada's Super Hosts from Quality Tourism. Members of Tourism Industry Association PEI (TIAPEI).

You come as a guest and leave as a friend..........Taking home some of P.E.I.'s best kept Secrets.............

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History of Our House

1860

Built as the Proudfoot Farm.

1900

The property was bought to use as plantation a for a seed Company called R.E. White & Son, owners were Russel and Kenneth White.

Story: The old house was used for storage of grain and straw.

1944

Kenneth started to clean the house out so when he proposed to Edna they would have a house to live in as newlyweds.

1944

December: Kenneth and Edna moved into their Greenvale home.

Story: While Kenneth was cleaning out the house getting it ready to live in he decided that the full 1 ½ foot wide stair case would pose a problem. Kenneth attended a home that was being destroyed and purchased the wide staircase that is still in the house today. The villagers had never met Edna and the talk of the town was that Kenneth had purchased such a wide mouth staircase because Edna was a rather large woman and would need the width to get her into the upstairs. Imagine the surprise on the gossip faces in December when Kenneth carried his new bride over the threshold and her, a mere feather under the weight of a 100 lb sack of potatoes. Kenneth had put a floor furnace in the basement and without heat exchangers, he figured the wide staircase would allow the heat to the upstairs.

1950

Edna gave birth to their first child named Marjorie. (1950-1975)

1953

Edna and Kenneth had another girl and named her Maureen.

1959

Edna and Kenneth gave birth to their last child, a girl and named her Barbara.

1960

The new White house was built to the North, at the top of the hill from the old one.

1963

Russel, Kenneth's father and his mother Mina Mae moved into the old house in Greenvale.

1968

Russel passed away and Mina moved into town. (Charlottetown)

1971

The four acres plus the house were sold to Lesley (Les) and Mae Blanchard from Ontario who also had their daughter Yvonne living at home.

Story: A big old Horse Chestnut tree lived at the front door of the old house and Les had nearly had the tree fallen when Barbara knee high to a grasshopper marched down from the new White's house with hands on hips letting Mr Blanchard know just how hard her daddy worked to get the bee honey out a that old tree. It was said the tree was larger than the house.

1981

The old home started to change hands again, losing a few years of records here and there.

1990

The old Greenvale home was sold again, to a Steven Weeks of P.E.I. Steven built in a downstairs bathroom and added an out building I call the North Builtmore.

1995

Again the papers change into the hands of Evelyn Chemko of Nunavut. Evelyn opened the Greenvale home up as a tourist home named The Bent Willow.

2000

The land title bears the names Cindy and Guy Cousineau of Ontario. Evelyn moved back to the Nunavut.

2001

May 21, The Cousineau's move to PEI and open the Old home to guests naming it Greenvale Acres B&B.

2005

The North Builtmore becomes the “Island Made” Gift Store & Scrapbooking Workshop.

2006

Renovations to the Beverly Hills room, two new windows, drywall, paint and trim.

2007

A second kitchen is built beside the old one and the dining room is turned into what opened May 1st 2007 as Grandma's Afternoon Tea Room.

2007

The Gift Store was moved into the front room of the B&B. Now making it easier to bake for the tea room and service customers while the gift shop is open.

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