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Apothecaries Hall, a Charlottetown pharmacy from 1810

Apothecaries Hall on Queen Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, photographed in 2013.
Apothecaries Hall on Queen Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, photographed in 2013. Apothecaries Hall, Charlottetown, PEI · Larry · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Apothecaries Hall in Charlottetown was the site of an apothecary shop opened by Thomas DesBrisay Jr. in December 1810 to supply medicines to Prince Edward Islanders. The present brick building replaced the wooden one in 1901, and when the drug store closed in 1986 it was one of the longest continuously operated pharmacies in Canada.

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The pharmacy and its building, not the history of pharmacy in Canada.

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