When Diane Griffin considered opportunities to get involved with any of nearly 70 government agencies, boards and commissions through Engage PEI, she knew exactly where she fit: the Museum and Heritage Foundation. Many people might not realize it but the Museum and Heritage...
Dream Weavers It would be hard to find a home or a cottage on Prince Edward Island that hasn’t had a MacAusland Blanket draped on a couch at some point. For more than 80 years the family owned and operated west prince business has been warming people with cozy 100% virgin wool...
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Seeing someone he loved suffer with chronic nerve pain that wasn’t responding to oral pain medication led Dr. Joseph Gabriele to invent Canada’s best selling topical pain relieving cream. With a PhD in molecular pharmacology...
New engineering grads get the kinks out of potato farming Inside Prince Edward Island’s sleek new engineering school, students are putting their heads together to save the spuds. Members of at University of Prince Edward Island’s School of Sustainable Design Engineering’s first...
Brian and Amber Craswell fed the cows on their South Rustico farm from the comfort of a Paris hotel room. Being one of the most automated dairy farms in North America has its advantages. Overhead video cameras monitor the barn as the high-tech machinery remotely feeds the herd...
A trade mission to India last February with Premier Wade MacLauchlan is paying off for Aspin Kemp CEO Jason Aspin. The engineering and manufacturing company, with corporate headquarters in PEI, provides power and control systems to marine and offshore industries. The company's...
Jill and Brian Burridge were working for a Western Canadian company in Alberta when their first child was born and the magnetic pull of the red Island soil got stronger and stronger. Jill (Cheverie) Burridge, a Holland College grad who got an engineering degree from UNB, wanted...
They are two Commonwealth Islands, separated by 3,700 kilometers of water, with one nearly at the Arctic Circle and the other close to the equator. But in an office in downtown Summerside, PEI, staff is busy helping a Barbados company manage and organize their employees’ vacation...
New steel fabrication facility in Hunter River Islanders like David Potts are vital to the success of our Island economy. Potts operates Island Steel Ltd. - his steel fabrication facility near Hunter River. Island Steel Ltd has grown from an start up staff of five in May 2016 to...