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Charlottetown
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Whale-Watching
Seasmoke Whale-Watching
There are no other tours on earth quite like ours!
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Bed & Breakkfasts
Greenwoods inn
Green Woods Inn is a beautifully converted Victorian country home sitting in two acres of grounds surrounded by lakes, rivers and countryside in an area steeped in Ontario's history.
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312 Seaton
312 Seaton, is a detached Victorian home on a quiet tree lined street in downtown Toronto‚s historical "Cabbagetown".
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Accomodation on the Beach
Alert bay, BC
250. 974 5225
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A Good Knight B&B
Calgary, Alberta
Tel.
403.270 7628
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Prince Edward Island
Destination profile
Prince Edward Island is the smallest but most thickly populated province of Canada. Its people usually call their province "The Island" or simply use its initials, "P.E.I."
The people live in small, scattered communities. But the average number of people per square mile or square kilometer is greater than in any other province. Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of Prince Edward Island.
History
Prince Edward Island was originally inhabited by the Mi'kmaq people. They named the island Abegweit, meaning Cradle on the Waves.
As part of the French colony of Acadia, the island was called Île Saint-Jean. Roughly one thousand Acadians on the island, many having already fled a British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in the mainland British colony of Nova Scotia in 1755, were subsequently deported in 1758 when the British seized Île Saint-Jean during the Seven Years' War.
The new British colony of "St. John's Island", also known as the "Island of St. John", was virtually empty following the cessation of hostilities, save a British garrison. To attract settlers without draining the British treasury, "Captain Samuel Holland, of the Royal Engineers, sent a proposal to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantation, proposing that a scientific survey be done to encourage land settlement and the fishery in British North America, particularly in the areas recently ceded by France."
In 1798, Great Britain changed the colony's name from St. John's Island to Prince Edward Island to honour the fourth son of King George III, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent (1767–1820), who was then commanding British troops in Halifax. Prince Edward was also the father of Queen Victoria.
EXTERNAL LINKS
PEIinfo a popular website for Islanders & Tourists.
Weblogs A blogging community based at the University of Prince Edward Island
The Government of Prince Edward Island
Satellite image of Prince Edward Island (interactive)
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