Roma at Three Rivers PEI

ROMA at THREE RIVERS PEI BBQ Shelter

Phase II of Construction

includes a very special

BBQ Shelter

Landscaping

Photos by Brenda & Edgar Dewar

On September 25^th2006, the traditional celebration after raising the frame was made with a poem by Hugh MacDonald to dedicate the frame. A spruce bough (because the wood used is spruce) was placed to pay homage to the wood, and celebration was shared among the community of people who joined together to raise this mighty frame.

Unlike other buildings of the Roma at Three Rivers site, the BBQ shelter will continue to display it framework for its lifetime. Therefore it was deemed appropriate to build it using traditional timber frame construction. Project Manager Edgar Dewar and Foreman Gordon Stright have taken great pride in their design and the HRSDC workers Lloyd MacKinnon, Krista MacKenzie, Bill McCormack and Glen Tattrie have absorbed “the mutual respect between wood and carpenter” that the fine art of joinery imposes on all who try it.

Joinery (the shaping and fitting of joints) uses primarily hand tools (chisels and mallets) to produce, with meticulous measurement, various joints secured by their close fit and by pegs not nails. Mortise and tenon joints, knee brace joints for triangular stabilization, half-lap dovetail joints, and collar-tie joints can be seen in the complete structure. See photos to the left to identify each.