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News before 1996 is not available online.
Canada’s most successful and critically acclaimed new musical in recent memory is about a Prince Edward Island icon, and has a cast full of Islanders. Anne & Gilbert is based on the novels Anne of the Island and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery, both sequels to the classic Anne...
Dr. Bonnie Stewart is home in Prince Edward Island now, but she spent the first decade of her career travelling and working as an educator around the globe. She continues to work around the world, delivering keynote speeches at digital innovation conferences in the United States...
There’s a good chance that the next bag of Frito Lay potato chips you tear open will contain chips from Prince Edward Island-grown potatoes. Historic Freetown-based Monaghan Farms is Frito Lay’s largest supplier of raw product for export and were their top Canadian supplier in...
Many people who live in the Charlottetown area know Jennifer Evans. The general manager of Ocean 100 and Hot 105.5 radio stations can also be found chairing the Gold Cup Parade committee and serving on the boards of Junior Achievement, the Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce...
Their stock may be getting low as boating weather comes to a close for the year, but Mermaid Marine will be ready to supply North American boaters for the 2017 season. Staff at the successful wholesale marine distributor in Charlottetown are busy packing orders to ship to 1,000...
On Remembrance Day we honour Islanders who have fought in conflicts over the past two centuries. We understand a little more about the lives they led and the struggles they faced by looking at some of the war memorabilia they brought home. Lest we forget. In a brick building on...
It has been said that a just society ensures that its children have the proper care to experience childhood as it should be: a time of innocence, wonder, and discovery. Bobby Cameron believes this too, which is what appealed to him about the PEI Child Care Facilities Board. At...
A western PEI company is having great success sharing Prince Edward Island’s abundant wild blueberries with the rest of the world. PEI Juice Works General Manager Jackson Platts says they recognized the opportunity to juice in bulk with the explosion of the craft brew market...
Name a historic house on Prince Edward Island and chances are Carter Jeffrey can tell you all about it. He loves all things old: books, antiques, and especially architecture. His fascination was born when he was a boy and his father would drive the dirt roads from their Alma farm...
When PEI Bag Company Sales Manager Jerry MacDonald retired after 43 years, someone at his retirement party said, “when you deal with the sales team here, you think you’re dealing with the owners.” The way they treat their customers has been key to the 80-year-old Island company’s...