From the Foreward by Anne Coates, C.A.O.: “The end of an era was fast approaching. History was being made. The Community of St. Eleanor’s together with Sherbrooke and Wilmot were being amalgamted with the Town of Summerside to form the City of Summerside. The story of this tiny settlement of St. Eleanor’s which saw its beginnings near three hundred years ago had to be told…Deborah Taylor and Juanita Bryson were given the tremendous task of researching and collecting information. They were given five months to complete a year’s work. It has been an interesting venture for the girls and me. A tremendous amount of work but lots of fun.”

St. Eleanor’s is a neighborhood within the city of Summerside, Prince Edward Island. It’s located in the northwest part of Lot 17 fronting on Malpeque Bay. The original settlement was named after Eleanor Sanksey, a housekeeper for Colonel Harry Compton. St. Eleanor’s was mainly agricultural until 1940 when several properties were purchased by the federal government to make way for construction of RCAF Station Summerside, a Royal Canadian Air Force training and operations base during WWII. In 1968, the name was changed to CFB Summerside. It remained active military use until 1991 when the base was closed. The former air base is now home to Slemon Park, a business park.