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Our story

Fifty-three years, two generations, one barber pole.

It started with Ray

Ray opened his barbershop at 102 Kent Street in 1973, and it has been catering to gentlemen young and not so young ever since. Same street, same pole, same idea: a good cut and a good chat.

His daughter Rhonda grew up around the chairs, learned the trade from her dad, and runs the shop today. Ray still turns up in his red sweater.

The team around them keeps the place what it has always been, a shop where the regulars are known by name and a first-timer leaves feeling like one.

Ray seated in his red sweater with the four barbers of Ray's Place standing around him
Inside the shop on a busy day, barbers working at their chairs under the tin ceiling
The Barber On Kent blade sign and barber pole on the stone corner of the Hardy Building

The shop on Kent

The shop sits in the Hardy Building, a 1948 stone storefront in the middle of downtown Charlottetown. The barber pole marks the door.

Inside it looks the way a barbershop should: dark wood, old photographs of the city's early tonsorial parlors on the walls, and the Ray's Rules board keeping everyone honest. Cash only. First come, first served.

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