Murray River is a Canadian village Kings County Prince Edward Island.
Located in the province's South-Eastern corner, Murray River is bisected by a river of the same name. The town is located at the end of navigation on the river and hosts a small wharf for fishing and recreational vessel.
The late (Senator) Dr. Lorne Bonnell (1923- 2006) comes from Murray River.
Brandon Gormley of the Phoenix Coyotes grew up in Murray River.
Brad Richards, alternate captain of the New York Rangers (formerly with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars) grew up in the neighbouring community of Murray Harbour.
Famous quotes containing the words murray, prince and/or island:
“Some people are born to fatness. Others have to get there.”
—Les Murray (b. 1938)
“Daddy?
That’s another kind of prison.
It’s not the prince at all,
but my father
drunkenly bent over my bed,
circling the abyss like a shark....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)