The PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation will be holding a variety of events for all ages over the next three weeks. Here is the schedule: July 30 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. – Queer Young Adult Historical Fiction Society reading and discussion at Beaconsfield Carriage House August 1 at 11...
Hon. Cory Deagle, Minister of Fisheries, Tourism, Sport and Culture issued the following statement: “Competing in the Olympic and Paralympic Games is a feat that only the most elite athletes achieve. I’d like to extend huge congratulations and wish the very best of luck to Hannah...
Information for the oyster industry on the presence of MSX in Bedeque Bay
Hon. Cory Deagle, Minister of Fisheries, Tourism, Sport and Culture issued the following statement: “Prince Edward Island has received confirmation of the presence of multinuclear sphere X (MSX) caused by Haplosporidium nelsoni in wild oyster samples collected in Bedeque Bay...
With production on a fifth season now underway, the hidden island podcast has come a long way since its beginnings in 2020. The podcast, which is released by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, has seen its number of listeners grow with each new season. “So far the podcast...
What to do if you find a potential fossil, artifact, ecofact, a shipwreck or a potential old dwelling? If you find what you believe to be a fossil (i.e. plant, foot print or faunal), artifact (i.e. stone tools, pottery/ceramic, coins and others), ecofact (old animal bones)...
With his lunch break barely started, a Grade 5 École François-Buote student grabs a rake and is ready to carry on making a garden bed. “Can we go back to work now?” he asks Jason MacNeil, who is the programming coordinator for the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. It turns out...