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, edward and/or island:
“Strung out and spotty, you wriggle and sigh
and kiss all the fellows and make them all die.”
—Les Murray (b. 1938)
“In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.”
—Mae West, U.S. actor, screenwriter, and A. Edward Sutherland. Peaches O’Day (Mae West)
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)