Fortune Bridge is a small unincorporated area

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 on Lot 43

Lot 43, Prince Edward Island

Lot 43 is a township in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is part of East Parish....

, East Parish

East Parish, Prince Edward Island

East Parish is a parish in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.-Communities:* Townships:** Lot 43** Lot 44** Lot 45** Lot 46** Lot 47* Unincorporated communities:** Fortune Bridge...

, King County

Kings County, Prince Edward Island

Kings County is located in eastern Prince Edward Island, Canada.It is the province's smallest, most rural and least-populated county. Kings County is also least dependent upon the agriculture industry compared with the other two counties, while being more heavily dependent on the fishery and...

, Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is located west of the Town of Souris

Souris, Prince Edward Island

Souris is a Canadian port town in northeastern Kings County, Prince Edward Island. It is located in an area famous for its beaches and potatoes, containing the majority of Prince Edward Island's potato manufacturers.-History:...

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Author Elmer Blaney Harris

Elmer Blaney Harris

Elmer Blaney Harris was an American author, dramatist, and playwright.- Biography :He was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of eight children. He moved with his family to Oakland, California, after his father's broom factory burned to the ground...

 built a summer home and founded an artist colony in Fortune Bridge. Local residents, including Lydia Dingwell (1852-1931) of nearby Dingwells Mills, would be the inspiration for his play Johnny Belinda. The home was later owned by actress Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'...

 and is now an inn and restaurant made famous by its one-time chef Michael Smith

Michael Smith (chef)

Michael Dixon Smith is a Canadian chef and writer, host of The Inn Chef, Chef at Home, Chef at Large and Chef Abroad .-Life and career:...

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Postal information

Fortune Bridge had its own post office from 1889 to until 1914. The postal code

Postal code

A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. Once postal codes were introduced, other applications became possible.In February 2005, 117 of the 190 member countries of the Universal Postal Union had postal code systems...

for Fortune Bridge is C0A 2B0 and the following are rural route addresses for the community: Souris Rural Route 4.