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Colorful houses and boat sheds line the shore of French River in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, with boats docked at the waterfront and green fields in the background.
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J.-Henri Blanchard, The Acadians of Prince Edward Island, 1720–1964 (1964, reprinted 1976), is a particularly rich source of familial and parochial history. Georges Arsenault, The Island Acadians: 1720–1980 (1989; originally published in French, 1987), traces the evolution of the local community. Other historical works include Andrew Hill Clark, Three Centuries and the Island: A Historical Geography of Settlement and Agriculture in Prince Edward Island, Canada (1959); Frank MacKinnon, The Government of Prince Edward Island (1951, reprinted 1974); and Francis W.P. Bolger (ed.), Canada’s Smallest Province: A History of P.E.I. (1973), and Prince Edward Island and Confederation, 1863–1873 (1964). Verner Smitheram, David Milne, and Satadal Dasgupta (eds.), The Garden Transformed: Prince Edward Island 1945–1980 (1982), presents a political-economy study of post-World War II Prince Edward Island. David Weale, A Long Way from the Road (1998), offers insight into the wit and wisdom of Prince Edward Islanders. Martha Walls (ed.), Prince Edward Island Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know About Prince Edward Island and Were Going to Ask Anyway (2007), provides a funny, anecdotal, and broad-brushed read about Prince Edward Island. Godfrey Baldacchino and Kathleen Stuart (eds.), Pulling Strings: Policy Insights for Prince Edward Island from Other Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (2008), draws on the discipline of island studies and the concept of the subnational island jurisdiction as a useful analytic tool for understanding the island and the contemporary policy challenges facing it.

Brendan Anthony O'Grady Godfrey Baldacchino

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  • Brendan Anthony O'Grady
    Professor of English, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown.
  • Godfrey Baldacchino
    Professor of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta; Island Studies Teaching Fellow, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. .

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Country Profile: Updated number of seats in the House of Commons. Sep 24, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Official Tourism Site of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Apr 26, 2024
Links added. Sep 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Government of Canada - Prince Edward Island. May 24, 2023
Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Oct 03, 2022
Country Profile: Updated premier. Apr 06, 2021
Population data updated. Feb 07, 2019
Country Profile: Population data updated. Feb 07, 2019
Country Profile: Added cross-references to the Country Profile. Jan 11, 2018
Added locator map to the Introduction. Jul 05, 2017
Media added. Aug 01, 2016
Country Profile: Updated premier. May 07, 2015
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Prince Edward Island, Canada. Dec 14, 2012
Removed 2010 population estimate. Jun 01, 2012
Country Profile: Removed 2010 population estimate. May 29, 2012
Country Profile: Added premier, number of seats in House of Commons, and time zone. Aug 12, 2011
Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Prince Edward Island, Canada. Aug 04, 2011
Add new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Prince Edward Islands, Canada. Aug 04, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - World - Prince Edward Island, Canada. Aug 04, 2011
Added photos of a rural landscape, dairy cattle, lobster boats, potato field, hayfield, and war monument. Jun 10, 2011
Added mention of Viking and Basque exploration and description of "top-down" economic plan of 1969–84 to the History section. Apr 28, 2011
Article revised and updated. Apr 28, 2011
Bibliography revised and updated. Apr 28, 2011
Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Feb 07, 2011
Population data added. Mar 26, 2010
Country Profile: Added area and population figures. Mar 26, 2010
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Travel and Cultures - Prince Edward Island. Apr 21, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - History of Prince Edward Island. Nov 11, 2008
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Prince Edward Island. Jul 18, 2008
Article revised and updated. Mar 21, 2008
Added new Web site: Official Site of the Government of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Nov 06, 2006
Article revised. Aug 03, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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