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Prince Edward Island   /prɪns ˈɛdwərd ˈaɪlənd/   Listen
Prince Edward Island

noun
1.
An island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada.






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"Prince Edward Island" Quotes from Famous Books



... tingling with delight in her plot. She hunted up Arnold Sherman, and told him what was required of him. Arnold Sherman listened and laughed. He was an elderly widower, an intimate friend of Stephen Irving, and had come down to spend part of the summer with him and his wife in Prince Edward Island. He was handsome in a mature style, and he had a dash of mischief in him still, so that he entered readily enough into Anne's plan. It amused him to think of hurrying Ludovic Speed, and he knew that Theodora Dix could be depended ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... sea are the maritime provinces—Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick—in area within sixty-seven square miles of the same size as England, and in climate not unlike the home land.[6] Your impression of their inhabitants is of a quiescent, romantic, pastoral and sea-faring people—sprung from the same stock as ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... through to Portland—by a more circuitous route than Poor had originally planned. From Fredericton a branch was built to meet this road, and a line to Woodstock, which in turn was connected with the old New Brunswick and Canada, still {103} pushing slowly north. In the meantime Prince Edward Island was building a narrow-gauge railway nearly two hundred miles long; in 1873 she was forced into Confederation to find aid in ...
— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton

... Victoria was not unwilling to help us on our journey, but if he could have had his way, we would have gone to a place on Prince Edward Island which used to be called Bedeque, but is now named Summerside, in the hope of attracting summer visitors. As to Cape Breton, he said the agent of the Intercolonial could tell us all about that, and put us on the route. We repaired to the ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner



Words linked to "Prince Edward Island" :   Charlottetown, Maritimes, Canadian province, Maritime Provinces, Canadian Maritime Provinces



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