“The farmer’s market in downtown Charlottetown, destroyed by fire in 1958, was designed by William Critchlow Harris. It had stood near Province House since 1904. The building was Gothic in style with Romanesque Revival overtones. It had a high pitched roof, asymmetrical gables, rough dressed walls of Island sandstone, and heavy voussoirs (window and door trim) of Wallace freestone. Cellar and first floor spaces were devoted to market uses, while the second floor was designed as a hall capable of seating 1300 people with a stage for 300. Use of concrete flooring meant that for the first time the fish market joined the other stands under one roof. … As the twentieth century advanced, transportation improvements and the development of food processing plants created larger and more profitable outlets for agricultural produce, with the result that the number of rural residents using the market dwindled to a handful. Portions of the building were remodelled in the 1950s to contain the Prince Edward Island Travel Bureau and the Island Motor Transport Bus Terminal. A few public stalls, Roop's Meat Market, Peter's Egg Candling Station, and the City Fish Market were the remaining food businesses left when fire broke out on 30 April 1958. … Market Square was subsequently used as a parking lot until the 1960s, when it became the site for the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Complex.”

Source: Charlottetown Market Houses by Mary K. Cullen