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Summerside
Summerside, P.E.I, Can.
Summerside
Prince Edward Island, Canada
News •
Incoming mayors outline their priorities for 3 of P.E.I.'s largest municipalities
• Nov. 3, 2026, 9:50 AM ET (CBC)
Cory Snow says 'it's a little surreal' to be voted as next mayor of Summerside
• Nov. 2, 2026, 6:56 PM ET (CBC)
Summerside won't have battery storage for its solar power this winter after Sunbank fire
• Oct. 30, 2026, 6:32 PM ET (CBC)
Who is running for mayor and city council in Summerside?
• Oct. 16, 2026, 4:00 PM ET (CBC)
Summerside, city, seat (1876) of Prince county, on the southern coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The city lies along Bedeque Bay and Northumberland Strait, 38 miles (61 km) west of Charlottetown. Settled in 1780 as Greenās Shore by Daniel Green (a Quaker loyalist from Pennsylvania, U.S.), it was renamed for an inn, Summerside House, established there in 1840 by Joseph Green, the youngest son of the founder. Now a fishing port and summer resort, the city was long the centre of a silver fox- and mink-farming region and of the Malpeque Bay oyster industry. The cityās Acadian Museum has early 19th-century farm implements. Nearby is an airport. Inc. town, 1877; city, 1995. Pop. (2006) 14,500; (2011) 14,751.
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