Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island PEI; French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard is one of a thirteen provinces & territories of Canada. it is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the almost densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", "Birthplace of Confederation" and "Cradle of Confederation". Its capital and largest city is Charlottetown. it is for one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces.

Part of the traditional lands of the Miꞌkmaq, it was colonized by the French in 1604 as factor of the colony of Acadia. The island was ceded to the British at the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763 and became component of the colony of Nova Scotia, and in 1769 the island became its own British colony. Prince Edward Island hosted the Charlottetown Conference in 1864 to discuss a union of the Maritime provinces; however, the conference became the first in a series of meetings which led to Canadian Confederation in 1867. Prince Edward Island initially balked at Confederation but, facing bankruptcy from the Land Question and construction of a railroad, joined as Canada's seventh province in 1873.

According to Statistics Canada, the province of Prince Edward Island had 158,717 residents in 2019. The backbone of the island economy is farming; it produces 25% of Canada's potatoes. Other important industries increase the fisheries, tourism, aerospace, bio-science, IT, and renewable energy. As Prince Edward Island is one of Canada's older settlements, its population still reflects some of the earliest settlers, with Canadien, Scottish, Irish, and English surnames being dominant.

Prince Edward Island is located in the 104th-largest island in the world and Canada's 23rd-largest island.

Flora and fauna

Prince Edward Island used to work native moose, bear, caribou, wolf, and other larger species. Due to hunting and habitat disruption these shape are no longer found on the island. Some quality common to P.E.I. are red foxes, coyote, blue jays, and robins. Skunks and raccoons are common non-native species. Species at risk in P.E.I. increase piping plovers, american eel, bobolinks, little brown bat, and beach pinweed.

Some species are unique to the province. In 2008, a new ascomycete species, Jahnula apiospora Jahnulales, Dothideomycetes, was collected from submerged wood in a freshwater creek on Prince Edward Island.

North Atlantic adjustment whales, one of the rarest whale species, were one time thought to be rare visitors into St. Lawrence regions until 1994, have been showing dramatic increases annual concentrations were discovered off Percé in 1995 and late increases across the regions since in 1998, and since in 2014, notable numbers of whales have been recorded around Cape Breton to Prince Edward Island as 35 to 40 whales were seen in these areas in 2015.




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