Some words about us

White Gables at Hope River is located among picturesque rolling hills and is located near Cavendish – an area of the Island where thousands of tourists travel to every year.

White Gables offers visitors the opportunity to purchase our handcrafted island potato soap, pottery, weavings and knitted products, oil paintings, original watercolour cards, etc.

White Gables also sells its own organically grown garden vegetables, black berries, strawberries, black currants, raspberries and jams.

Geraldine Ysselstein

Artist, Weaver, Gardener, Educator

Geraldine Ysselstein has over 30 years of experience as a working artist. She received her B.A. degree from Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) in Fine Arts and French and then continued her education at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) in Fine Arts. She received her Ontario Certificate of Teaching and taught for several years in elementary and high schools.

Geraldine is a painter and a weaver. Her oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings capture the scenic beauty of the North Shore and as a weaver she is actively producing an array of woven products such as scarves, tea towels and table runners as well as spinning and dyeing wool which she turns into knitted products.

Pieter Ijsselstein

Soap Maker, Potter, Gardener

Pieter grew up on a dairy farm near Woodstock, Ontario. He obtained his B.A. degree from Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA), M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario) and his MBA degree from the University of Prince Edward Island in 2012.

Since 2010, Pieter and Geraldine have developed and commercialized a number of small scale enterprises. They include market gardening, pottery and most recently the creation of potato soap. This soap has been very popular with tourists and Islanders because it is a soap which is clearly connected to the Island.