Lady Slipper Drive tourism marketing project during the 1970s in conjunction with the Blue Heron Drive in Queens County and the Kings Byway in Kings County. Lady Slipper Drive The Lady Slipper Drive is a former scenic drive located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, beginning and ending at Summerside. The Lady Slipper Drive comprised numerous routes along coastal sections of Prince County and measured approximately 300 km in length. It was replaced in 2005 by the North Cape Coastal Drive. Deriving its name from the Lady's Slipper orchid, the provincial floral emblem which grows in shaded forests, the signs marking the Lady
Slipper launch Slipper launch A slipper launch is a traditional River Thames pleasure boat normally of wooden construction to seat between 4 and 8 passengers. These popular launches began to be more widely introduced in the 1930s with classical designs from Meakes of Marlow and later from Andrews of Bourne End during the 1950s. The protoytpe, "Merk", however, was built some years earlier, in 1912 by Andrews at Maidenhead. This boat, now in the collection of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall was owned at one time by Arthur Whitten-Brown, famous with John Allcock for the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919. Slipper