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:
“Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands.
Oh! where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl of Murray,
And hae laid him on the green.”
—Unknown. The Bonny Earl of Murray (l. 1–4)
“It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I’m saying I’m an insect who dreamed he was a man and he loved it but the dream is over and the insect is awake.”
—Charles Edward Pogue, U.S. screenwriter, and David Cronenberg. Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)