Levee

Here’s is the 2013 levee schedule for January 1, 2013 for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and area. This is the 8th year I’ve been collating and confirming this information; who would have thought! If you’re new to all of this and want to give it a try, read How to Levee. If you have additional levees to add, or changes to the information below, please drop me a line.

Notes:

• All levee times and locations have been confirmed by telephone or email as of Dec. 14, 2012.
• Updates since first publication:
  • Changed time of PEI Regiment to 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m. (was 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.) after receiving an update from the Regiment directly.
  • Added new PEI Women’s Institute levee (first ever!) at the Farm Centre.
  • Added new Water-Prince Corner Shop levee.
• This list will be updated if new information becomes available, so be sure to check back before January 1, 2013 for the latest.
• You can always get this calendar (or that for any future year) at ruk.ca/levee

Here’s is the 2012 levee schedule for January 1, 2012 for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and area. If you’re new to all of this and want to give it a try, read How to Levee.

Print out this handy PDF file and carry it in your pocket to guide you through the day, and spread the word on Facebook and Twitter.

All levee times have been confirmed by telephone or email contact with organizers, or with information from published sources.

Other Formats

• PDF (print and carry in your pocket!)
• iCal (load into your iCal on a Mac to sync with your iPod Touch or iPhone)
• XML (load into any RSS feed reader)
• Google Calendar
• CSV (import into a spreadsheet or roll-your-own app)

Updates

• Removed Handibear Hills, which is not having a levee this year. But they are having “open barn week” between Boxing Day and New Years Eve.
• Added Engineers PEI, a new levee this year.
• Changed start time of UPEI levee to 11:30 a.m.
• Changed time for Charlottetown Fireman’s Club to 6:30 p.m. and noted that it’s a dance and not a levee; in their words, “everyone comes here after the levees.”
• Changed time of Masonic Temple levee to 1:00 p.m.
• Confirmed times for HMCS Queen Charlotte and Haviland Club.
• Added time for Polar Bear Swim (not technically a levee, but…).
• Confirmed times for Benevolent Irish Society and Prince Edward Regiment (all times now confirmed).

Regular readers may recall the annual photo-with-the-Premier that’s been taken since 2004 at the Premier’s Levee at the Confederation Centre of the Arts on New Year’s Day. Well, the 2011 photo arrived last week, and I’m happy to say the it’s my least-dorky-looking yet:

I think you’ll agree that I got my colour coordination perfect this year (in last year’s photo I was wearing way, way too much red)  I’m even wearing and Island Tartan tie.

For the first time this year we took Oliver to the levee – just the Premier’s, for a start; he’s too young to be exposed to the Masons and the Bishop – and so here’s the first in his own series of photos-with-the-Premier:

It’s a pretty good start – compared to my high level of dorkitude on my first go especially – and I think you could make the case that his colour coordination hit an even higher level than mine. Just got to work on the “when you shake hands with someone, look them in the eye” technique and he’ll be set. But he’s got the stance down.

It was a nice touch that the Premier’s Office sent Oliver his photo in his own envelope (the office amazes me every year in its ability to figure out where to mail these photos; I don’t believe I’ve ever given them our address).

Here’s is the 2011 levee schedule for January 1, 2011 for Charlottetown and area. If you’re new to all of this and want to give it a try, read How to Levee.  And if I’ve missed anything, please leave a comment.

All levee times and locations have been confirmed.

New this year from the University of PEI: “All UPEI alumni and their friends are invited to ride the Panther Bus as it hops between all the major levees happening in Charlottetown on New Year’s Day.” And who among us doesn’t have a friend who’s a UPEI alumnus!

Regular readers will recall a series of photos taken at the annual New Year’s Day Levee with Pat Binns, then-Premier of Prince Edward Island. Well, the tradition continues: I received my photo with now-Premier Robert Ghiz in the mail last week (another miracle of Prince Edward Island-ness: I never gave anyone my mailing address – they just figure it out somehow).  Here it is, with photos of me and Pat Binns below for comparison. 

I think you’ll agree that, although it was completely be accident, I scored a colour-coordination win this year. Notice as well that every year I seem to be getting a little closer to the Premier in the photo (in 2004 I appear not to notice that he’s standing beside me).

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