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	Prince Edward Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island's namesake is Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820), the father of Queen Victoria.
		Prince Edward Island is the first province in Canada to elect a Premier of non-European descent (Joseph Atallah Ghiz) in 1986.
		Prince Edward Island has a high level of political representation, with 4 Members of Parliament, 4 Senators, 27 Members of the Legislative Assembly, 2 cities, 7 towns and 60 incorporated rural communities (having over 500 municipal councillors and mayors) to give a total of 566 elected officials for a population of 138,307 (as of 2006).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Edward_Island (2533 words)

	Prince Edward Island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Prince Edward Island (simply PEI or P.E.I. French, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Scottish Gaelic, Eilean a’ Phrionns or Eilean Eòin) is a Canadian province situated in the Maritimes.
		Known as the "Garden Province", the island is located in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, east of New Brunswick and north of Nova Scotia from which it is separated by the Northumberland Strait.
		Prince Edward Island is home to one provincial university, the University of Prince Edward Island, located in Charlottetown.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Prince_Edward_Island (2291 words)

	Prince Edward Island
		FLAG: The design of the flag is similar to that of the shield in the coat of arms, with the addition of a fringe of alternating red and white.
		Prince Edward Island (PEI), one of Canada's four Atlantic Provinces, is the smallest of the ten provinces in both size and population.
		Prince Edward Island's 2001 population of 135,294 is fairly evenly divided between urban and rural dwellers.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /canada/Nunavut-to-Yukon/Prince-Edward-Island.html (4721 words)

	Prince Edward Island - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Prince Edward Island (simply PEI or P.E.I. French, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a Canadian province situated in the Maritimes.
		The shoreline of the island consists of a combination of long beaches, dunes, short sandstone cliffs, salt water marshes and numerous small bays and harbours.
		Roughly one thousand Acadians on the island, many having already fled a British-ordered expulsion 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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/r/i/Prince_Edward_Island_24cf.html (2129 words)

	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Aside from being the seat of colonial government, the community came to be noted during the early 19th century for shipbuilding and its lumber industry as well as being a fishing port.
		In the 1960s new public schools were constructed in the community and in 1969 the city became home to the amalgamated University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), located on the campus of the former St.
		The July 1, 2005 population estimate for the CA is 60,321 and the 2010 projected population is estimated to be 61,210.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Charlottetown,_Prince_Edward_Island (2822 words)

	Flag of Prince Edward Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flag of Prince Edward Island, Canada is a banner modelled after the provincial arms.
		The flag has the proportions 3:2; the three sides away from the mast are bordered by alternating bands of red and white.
		The upper third of the flag features the English heraldic lion which appeared both on the coat of arms of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, for whom the province is named, and on that of King Edward VII.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_Prince_Edward_Island (207 words)

	Prince Edward Island General Tourist Information
		The design of the Prince Edward Island flag is modeled after the coat of arms in rectangular shape and is bordered on the three sides away from the mast by alternative bands of red and white.
		The reddish-brown signifies the redness of the soil, the green represents the grass and the trees, the white for the caps on the waves, and the yellow is for the sun.
		The patriotic song of Prince Edward Island, which was written by Lucy Maud Montgomery in the spring of 1908.
	www.exploreprinceedwardisland.com /general-tourist-information.htm (896 words)

	Canada Flag Mart Prince Edward Island Flag - PEI
		Prince Edward Island was the seventh British Colony to join Confederation and it remains Canada's smallest province.
		The flag was bordered on the three sides away from the mast by alternative bands of red and white.
		The upper section of the shield featured the English heraldic lion that appeared both on the Coat of Arms of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, for whom the province is named, and on that of King Edward VII himself.
	www.canadaflagmart.com /-strse-16/Prince-Edward-Island-Flag/Detail.bok (301 words)

	Prince Edward Island (Canada)
		The flag was established by 'An Act Respecting the Provincial Flag, Chapter 11, Laws of Prince Edward Island' which received Royal Assent on 24 March 1964, with the schedule therein contained describing the flag as follows:
		Smaller or larger flags are to correspond with the above description in the proportions of 6, 4 and 1/4 the fly, the hoist and depth of the fringe".
		The Prince Edward Island badge according to Admiralty and Colonial Office papers, was not approved for use on a flag until 1878.
	flagspot.net /flags/ca-pe.html (571 words)

	Emblems of Prince Edward Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Island flag is rectangular in shape bordered on three sides away from the mast by alternative bands of red and white.
		The flag contains the coat of arms which was created in 1769 when the Island of St. John (known today as Prince Edward Island) was made a separate colony and required a government seal.
		The reddish-brown epitomizes the redness of the soil, the green characterizes the grass and trees, the white represents the caps on the waves, and the yellow depicts the sun.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /island/emblems2.htm (607 words)

	Canadian Flag - World Flags 101 - Prince Edward Island Flags
		The flag of Prince Edward Island consists of a golden lion on a red base in the upper third of the flag.
		The flag is a replication of the provincial coat of arms.
		The flag was adopted on Mar. 24, 1964.
	www.worldflags101.com /canada/pei.aspx (290 words)

	Prince Edward Island
		The island lies in the gulf of St.Lawrence which is a rich fishing area off the Atlantic coast of Canada.
		The greatest natural resource of the island is the fertile soil, the farms cover a greater percentage of the land than in any other province.
		The provincial flag, adopted in 1964, bears an adaption of the coat of arms.
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	Prince Edward Island
		His devotion and self-sacrifice sowed the seed of a goodly harvest, to be witnessed in the prosperity and steady increase of the church in Prince Edward Island.
		On the south end of the island of Barra was built the Catholic church; it was probably insufficient for the wants of the people, and its situation was somewhat inconvenient, as the greater part of the population lived at the north end and wished to have their church in that locality.
		The large and fertile property in Prince County known as Bedeque was originally the property of MacDonald of Rhetland a branch of the house of Morar founded by Raol MacAllan 0g.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/prince_edward.htm (3832 words)

	Prince Edward Island
		As Prince Edward Island did not enter Confederation on July 1, 1867, it was neither assigned arms with the original four provinces in 1868, nor assigned a flag for its lieutenant governor in 1870.
		This flag was clearly in the pattern of a lieutenant-governor's flag, and we can guess that it served that function for the rest of the century.
		With the granting of arms to Prince Edward Island on May 30, 1905, the badge on the flag of the lieutenant-governor would have been altered to reflect the new shield, but when the province dropped the crown and adopted the wreath of maple leaves is unclear for the change seems to have been made informally.
	fraser.cc /FlagsCan/Provinces/PEI.html (1071 words)

	KidZone Geography - Prince Edward Island
		Prince Edward Island is the smallest of Canada's ten provinces.
		Prince Edward Island’s flag was adopted on March 24, 1964.
		The Oak is known as the "Oak of England" the saplings represent the three counties of the province: King's, Queen's and Prince.
	www.kidzone.ws /geography/pei/index.htm (228 words)

	Montague, Prince Edward Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The green represents the lands of the town and the surrounding fields and is, also, a principal colour in the provincial coat of arms of Prince Edward Island.
		Both the fish and the plows are shown in white, the second major colour in the arms of Prince Edward Island.
		In conformity with heraldic traditions, the flag is a horizontal banner made up of the elements on the shield rebalanced to fill the rectangle.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-pe-mt.html (723 words)

	Welcome to Prince Edward Island, Canada
		In 1798, Great Britain changed the colony's name from St. John's Island to Prince Edward Island to distinguish it from similar names in the Atlantic area, such as the cities of Saint John and St. John's.
		Summerside is the second largest city and is located in Prince County, in the western part of the province.
		The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlottetown comprises the whole Island and is the second oldest English diocese in Canada.
	www.hometowncanada.com /pe (2254 words)

	ECOTRAVEL on Prince Edward Island
		The north shore of Canada's Prince Edward Island is "Anne's Land" marked on maps for the benefit of the thousands of visitors who come here every year and who want to go straight to the source.
		The field and sea vistas glowingly described by author Lucy Maud Montgomery a century ago are as much a magnet to the pristine island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence as the Grand Canyon to Arizona and the Pyramids to Egypt.
		By and large, the island was still at rest, and I would not have been too surprised to meet Anne or Emily walking briskly along the Confederation Trail or seen them sitting on a dune watching the clouds go by.
	www.goodmoney.com /pei.htm (983 words)

	Information about Canada FDC: 17¢ Prince Edward Island Flag: Flags of Canada Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Prince Edward Island is known as Canada's Garden Province, and with good reason.
		This small island, off the coast of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, is a rich agricultural land where farmers raise potatoes, wheat, oats, barley, and many other crops, in addition to meat and dairy cattle.
		The people of Prince Edward Island are about two-thirds Scotch and English, but immigrants from all over Europe give the Province the air of a melting pot.
	www.unicover.com /EA4NC66J.htm (474 words)

	Prince Edward Island - Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Beneath the lion is a single plot of grass representing PEI and England, both of which are islands.
		Upon the mound of grass stand a mature Oak tree (the official tree of Prince Edward Island) which represents England and three smaller saplings on the left, representing the 3 counties into which Prince Edward Island has been divided since 1767.
		Framing the flag on the three sides away from the mast are alternating bands of red and white, the official colours of Canada.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/flagPEI.htm (129 words)

	Anti Essays : : Prince Edward Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Prince Edward Island is the smallest but most thickly populated province of Cananda.
		The chief sources of employment and income for the people of the island are the service industries.
		----------------------------------------------------------------- THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FLAG -----------------------------------------------------------------The provincial flag, adopted in 1964, bears an adaption of the coat of arms.
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	Canadian Provinces - Prince Edward Island Flag
		The lion is from the coat of arms of Prince Edward for whom the Island was named.
		There is an island with one mature oak and three young oaks symbolizing Britain, as the mature oak, and the three counties of King’s, Queen’s and Prince as the three young oaks.
		The island represents both Britain and the province as islands.
	www.anyflag.com /country/canada/princeed.php (161 words)

	Roots Rock, Emily's Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1758 French occupation of the Island came to an end as the British claimed it.
		In 1764 Prince Edward Island was surveyed and divided into 67 townships or lots, each of which was supposed to contain 20,000 acres.
		In 1769, Prince Edward Island, which had been administered from Nova Scotia, was granted separate government.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~eemoore/maps.html (518 words)

	Library: Canada Facts: Prince Edward Island
		With a population of over 33 000 Charlottetown is the only urban centre on the island and is the capital of the province.
		Prince Edward Island is known for its moderate climate.
		Spring temperatures range from 8 to 22 degrees C. Summer is hot, but rarely humid with daytime temperatures usually in the mid 20 degrees C and highs up to 32 degrees C. Autumn is clear and bright with warm afternoons and cool evening temperatures ranging from 8 to 22 degrees C.
	library.educationworld.net /canadafacts/pe_qfacts.html (189 words)

	Canadian Flag - World Flags 101 - Saskatchewan Flags
		The provincial shield of arms is in the upper left side and the western red lily, which is the provincial flower, is on the right side of the flag.
		The flag was adopted on Mar. 1, 1969.
		The flag was based on a design by Anthony Drake and was chosen as a result of a provincial flag design competition.
	www.worldflags101.com /canada/saskatchewan.aspx (295 words)

	the emblems of PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (province of Canada)
		Prince Edward who was the father of Queen Victoria.
		The gold lion is from Prince Edward's coat of arms.
		The bottom of the shield is a green island with four oak trees.
	www.saskschools.ca /~gregory/canada/emblems/pei.html (148 words)

	politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first formalized government system introduced to Prince Edward Island was the colonial government imposed by Great Britain when that country won title to the Island in the mid-1700s.
		The Island colony obtained responsible government in 1851 and, in 1873, Prince Edward Island became Canada’s sixth province.
		As of 1999, Prince Edward Island’s First Minister and Executive Council (commonly referred to as the Premier and Cabinet) have divided the Province’s administrative responsibility among eight departments: Agriculture and Forestry; Community Services and Attorney General; Education; Development; Fisheries and Tourism; Health and Social Services; Provincial Treasury; Technology and Environment; and Transportation and Public Works.
	www.edu.pe.ca /eastwiltshire/grass01/Cult11a.htm (503 words)

	University of Maine at Fort Kent - Valley Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first painting in the series of six is entitled "A Patron Saint and a National Day for Acadie", and refers to both events in 1881, as well as the official proclamation by Pope Pius XI in 1938, declaring the "Notre Dame de L'Assumption" patron saint of the Acadians.
		Painting number two, entitled "An Insignia, a Motto and a National Flag for Acadie," represents the events of 1884, which saw the creation of the starred tricolor national flag of Acadians by Marie Agathe Babineau, and the national motto "In Unity There is Strength".
		It is followed by a fourth painting "First raising 'on land' of the National Flag of Acadie," which occurs in front of the church in Miscouche, the day after the flag is first unfurled.
	www.umfk.maine.edu /valleyvision/release/default.cfm?recordID=05142 (791 words)

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