The Island-of-Prince-Edouard or the I. - P. - E. (in English, Prince Edward Island or PEI) is smallest of the provinces of the Canada in surface and a population. In 1864, the Island-of-Prince-Edouard accommodated the conference which led to the Articles of Confederation and the creation of Canada in 1867. Nevertheless, I. - P. - E. became a Canadian province only in 1873.

Surface: 5  660 km ²

Population: 138  596 (2006) ( Prince-Edwardian ) - 62% rural and 38% urban
Capital: Charlottetown (pop: 33  000)

The island is also known as the place where the tales of Lucy Maud Montgomery of the series Anne… the house with the green pinions is held.

The province consists of the island of the same name, which is in the Golfe of the St. Lawrence in the North-East of the New Brunswick, of which it is separated by the Détroit from Northumberland. This strait is crossed by the Pont of the Confederation since 1997. According to the rules of the Typography, one writes island of the Prince-Edouard for the island, and Island-of-Prince-Edouard for the province.

History

The island knows itself in intrigue like Abegweit . Like part of the News-France, it was called the island Midsummer's Day . Nicolas Denis obtained the concession from it about 1653, but it dealt only with the fisheries and did not leave after him any establishment in the island. France colonized it only after the Traités of Utrecht (1713). In 1719, a new concession of the island and that of Miscou were done with a count named Saint-Pierre, the following year it sent a group of colonists. A census in 1735 gives a total of 81 families established in the island.

While passing from the France to the the United Kingdom in 1759, the British re-elected it the island of the Prince-Edouard in 1798 to distinguish it from other Midsummer's Day in the zone Atlantique, such Midsummer's Day (or Saint-John , with the New Brunswick) and Midsummer's Day (capital of Ground-New-and-Labrador). It was named in the honor of the son of the king Georges III, the prince Edouard (Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathearn) (1767 - 1820), who ordered then the troops with Halifax.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Official site Government of the tourist Island-of-Prince-Edouard
  • Official site of the tourist Island-of-Prince-Edouard
  • Information on the Island-of-Prince-Edouard

Source

History of Canada, by the Philéas-F Father. Middle-class man, c.s.c. 1913.

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