With her natural gift for telling a good story, author Marian Bruce demonstrates how religion, politics, and blood ties all played a large role in the birth, life, and death of Prince of Wales College, from its beginning as the Central Academy to its conclusion with the formation of the University of Prince Edward Island. The book showcases many of the fascinating professors who taught at PWC, and the experiences of many of its alumni. Incorporating interviews of alumni, faculty, and staff, as well as drawing upon extensive archival material, Bruce has captured educational history that spans generations.
A Magnificent Gift Declined: The Dalton Sanatorium of Prince Edward Island 1913-1923 documents political and social issues surrounding the rise and demise of the first tuberculosis hospital in Prince Edward Island in the midst of a severe TB epidemic. Besides those wanting to read a good story, anyone concerned with a public policy or communicable disease can gain valuable insights from Leonard Cusack's socio-political history set in a small-scale society.
Food is the social jelly of our lives. We make new friends and consolidate existing ones around meals; we use food to mark events in our life; we share in our joys and sorrowings by breaking bread together. There is a connection between certain food and where it comes from. Can there be a North American thanksgiving without turkey and pumpkin pie? Or a Dragon Boat Festival in China without zhong-zi? Mexico without Tapas? India without curry?
Besides the standard information necessary to these 60 delicious recipes from islands all over the world - their ingredients and method of preparation - editors Anna and Godfrey Baldacchino elaborate on what each signature dish tells us about its island: its historical-anthropological story.
A World of Islands provides a global, research-based, comprehensive and pluri-disciplinary overview of the study of islands. The expertise and insights of 42 scholars and contributors offers a unique collection of theoretical principles, ideas, observations and policy proposals from, and for, the study of islands and island life.
Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada; Visiting Professor of Sociology and Labour Studies at the University of Malta, Malta; and the Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal.
An Introduction to Island Studies is an approachable look at this interdisiplinary field - from islands as biodiversity hotspots, their settlement, human migration and occupation through to the place of islands in the popular imagination. Featuring geopolitical, social and economic frameworks, Randall gives a bottom-up guide to this most modern area of study. From the struggles and concerns of the Anthropocene - climate change, vulnerability and resilience, sustainble development, through to policy making and local environments - island studies has the potential to change the debate.
Dr. James (Jim) Randall teaches at UPEI, where he leads the Institute of Island Studies and is the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability. A geographer by training, Jim developed a love of Island Studies later in his career. His research spans many aspects of this interdisciplinary field, with a special interest in development, quality-of-life, and islander-newcomer relationships on small islands.
In 1854 British travel write Isabella Lucy Bird visited Prince Edward Island for six weeks, and published an accountthat was both scathing and charming: Paris may be the gayest city in the world, she wrote, and London the richest; but... "Charlotte Town may bear away the palm for being themost gossiping." "The further you go from Charlotte Town, " she continued, "the more primitive and hospitable the people become; they warmly welcome a stranger, and seem happy, moral, and contented." Contemporary Island poet Jane Ledwell was both fascinated and exasperated by Bird's comments and she "wrote back" - 160 years later. Bird Calls weaves Ledwell's response poems and Bird's travel prose into this intriguing conversation that contrasts PEI then and now, and showcases the talents of the two accomplished writers - from very different generations.
In 1854 British travel write Isabella Lucy Bird visited Prince Edward Island for six weeks, and published an accountthat was both scathing and charming: Paris may be the gayest city in the world, she wrote, and London the richest; but... "Charlotte Town may bear away the palm for being themost gossiping." "The further you go from Charlotte Town, " she continued, "the more primitive and hospitable the people become; they warmly welcome a stranger, and seem happy, moral, and contented." Contemporary Island poet Jane Ledwell was both fascinated and exasperated by Bird's comments and she "wrote back" - 160 years later. Bird Calls weaves Ledwell's response poems and Bird's travel prose into this intriguing conversation that contrasts PEI then and now, and showcases the talents of the two accomplished writers - from very different generations.
Called to Serve details Pope's path to power through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th. It addresses the significance of her privileged and powerful lineage, the influence of her parents on her world view, and the inspiration of Florence Nightingale who invoked in Pope a "burning desire" to become an "army nurse" in a faraway land.
The story takes us from Georgie's sheltered life in Victorian Prince Edward Island to the "Boston States"; to the dangerous and primitive conditions she experienced as Superintendent of nurses in two South African Wars; to her work in the formative of the nursing component of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC); and to the battlefields of Europe during the First World War where she developed shell shock from the bombing and was invalided home, her career over.
Called to Serve details Pope's path to power through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th. It addresses the significance of her privileged and powerful lineage, the influence of her parents on her world view, and the inspiration of Florence Nightingale who invoked in Pope a "burning desire" to become an "army nurse" in a faraway land.
The story takes us from Georgie's sheltered life in Victorian Prince Edward Island to the "Boston States"; to the dangerous and primitive conditions she experienced as a Superintendent of nurses in two South African Wars; to her work in the formation of the nursing component of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC); and to the battlefields of Europe during the First World War where she developed shell shock from the bombing and was invalided home; her career over.
Caught in a Changing Society: St. Dunstan's University 1950-1969 chronicles the golden years of expansion at an esteemed Catholic university and what led to the creation of the University of Prince Edward Island. As Cusack (SDU'69) writes, campus life was tight knit, with students participating in sports teams, drama and music performances, social activities, and mandatory classes and religious services under the watchful eyes of the priests and sisters. With increased enrolment, more resources were needed to build new campus buildings and hire more lay teaching staff. As social mores changed and mini-skirts appeared on campus in the mid-1960s, students demanded freedoms and direct representation, while the administration fought for much needed govnerment subsidies and faced the challenges of an uncertain fugure.
With Prince of Wales College becoming a university, the province faced the daunting prospect of supporting two post-secondary institutions. To solve the financial crisis, Premier Alex Campbell mandated the creation of the University of Prince Edward Island. Caught in a Changing Society captures the ensuing debate that led to the closure of the 114-year-old St. Dunstan's University and the resolve that allowed the institution to evolve into a charitable foundation that has invested more than $32 million into education, infrastructure, and the diocese.
During his carrer, Cusack was a high school teacher and princpal, a public servant, and a sessional lecturer in history at UPEI. He is the author of three previous books, including Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy 1820-2016. Now retired, he and his wife, Catherine, reside in the beautiful community of Emyvale.
Caught in a Changing Society: St. Dunstan's University 1950-1969 chronicles the golden years of expansion at an esteemed Catholic university and what led to the creation of the University of Prince Edward Island. As Cusack (SDU'69) writes, campus life was tight knit, with students participating in sports teams, drama and music performances, social activities, and mandatory classes and religious services under the watchful eyes of the priests and sisters. With increased enrolment, more resources were needed to build new campus buildings and hire more lay teaching staff. As social mores changed and mini-skirts appeared on campus in the mid-1960s, students demanded freedoms and direct representation, while the administration fought for much needed govnerment subsidies and faced the challenges of an uncertain fugure.
With Prince of Wales College becoming a university, the province faced the daunting prospect of supporting two post-secondary institutions. To solve the financial crisis, Premier Alex Campbell mandated the creation of the University of Prince Edward Island. Caught in a Changing Society captures the ensuing debate that led to the closure of the 114-year-old St. Dunstan's University and the resolve that allowed the institution to evolve into a charitable foundation that has invested more than $32 million into education, infrastructure, and the diocese.
During his carrer, Cusack was a high school teacher and princpal, a public servant, and a sessional lecturer in history at UPEI. He is the author of three previous books, including Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy 1820-2016. Now retired, he and his wife, Catherine, reside in the beautiful community of Emyvale.
Most early settlers to Prince Edward Island landed on our shores having just crossed an ocean. Islanders grew up on their stories: the hardships they encountered, the severe weather. But when we think of the early Chinese settlers who crossed an ocean, then were faced with making their way across the vast country of Canada before reaching the Island, it is practically unimaginable.
That the parochialism ofearlier times offered a less than welcoming introduction tothis Island makes me sad. Our folded arms deprived both sides of cultural enrichment, love, and compassion. At the sametime, the success stories and cultural riches brought by somany first-generation Chinese Islanders today leave me encouraged. We have moved comfortably into the 21st century withnew citizens dedicated to making the Island a better place to live - weather and all.
Competing Strategiesoutlines development strategies for small islands within increasingly integrated regional and global economies. Islands provide intriguing lessons in the culture, economics, and management of a sustainable patter of development based on locally proven, home-grown ?good sense,? far removed from continental ?best practices.?
This volume considers two broad frameworks for critiquing small island economic development: internal economic organization and resource management and external integration and dependent development. Case studies focus on the disparate experiences of the Azores, Cape Breton, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and the Shetland and Orkney Islands in crafting innovative development approaches. On one hand these seek to maximize the competitive advantage afforded by exploitable resources, and on the other hand, the delicate mechanics of relating to larger, national,and supranational entities. Four other papers by scholars of international repute and a seminal introduction provide a broad overview of key topical debates.
This book is Volume 2 in the Island Living Series and consists of 16 papers,13 of which were originally presented at the international conference ?An Island Living: Patterns of Autonomy and Dependence in the Small Islands of the North Atlantic,? convened at Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island. Participants exchanged views on the social, political, and economic challenges facing 24 small island territories.
Accessing abortion services is challenging in many countries around the world. Barriers result from poor access to health care, geographic location, legal restrictions, abortion stigma, and moral conservatism. Repeated studies indicate that restricting access to abortion does not prevent it happening, but rather displaces it elsewhere and often results in unsafe abortion contributing to maternal mortality.
Those living on islands face particular challenges presented by their geographic isolation including travel to other jurisdictions, which is financially and emotionally burdensome. This book shines a light on two islands -- Ireland (North and South) and Prince Edward Island, Canada -- and considers for each island, the nature of the discourse of abortion on the island, the impacts that restrictions have had, ongoing efforts to improve access, and recent activist successes.
Accessing abortion services is challenging in many countries around the world. Barriers result from poor access to health care, geographic location, legal restrictions, abortion stigma, and moral conservatism. Repeated studies indicate that restricting access to abortion does not prevent it happening, but rather displaces it elsewhere and often results in unsafe abortion contributing to maternal mortality.
Those living on islands face particular challenges presented by their geographic isolation including travel to other jurisdictions, which is financially and emotionally burdensome. This book shines a light on two islands -- Ireland (North and South) and Prince Edward Island, Canada -- and considers for each island, the nature of the discourse of abortion on the island, the impacts that restrictions have had, ongoing efforts to improve access, and recent activist successes.
Conflicting and competing claims over the actual and imagined use of land and seascapes are exacerbated on islands with high population density. The management of culture and heritage is particularly tested in island environments where space is finite and the population struggles to preserve cultural and natural assets in the face of the demands of the construction industry, immigration, high tourism, and capitalinvestment.
Drawn from extreme island scenarios, the ten case studies in this volume review practices and policies for effective heritage management and offer rich descriptive and analytic material about land-use conflict. In addition, they point to interesting, new directions in which research, public policy and heritage management intersect.
The gap between the romance and reality of war was never greater than that experienced by the young men who fought in World War I, 1914-1918. Frank Walker of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island was a 20-year-old machinist with a literary bent when he enlisted as a stretcher bearer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914. Like other young men, he expectedan adventure. Over the next three years of serving in some of the worst battles of the war, including Ypres, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele, he charted his journey from innocence togrim reality in both prose and poetry. He compiled a vivid and revealing picture of a war that continues to haunt modern memory.
Upon his return to Charlottetown in 1918, he went on to become one of the Charlottetown's most respected newspaper editors until his retirement in 1969. He died in 1977. As time passes, and more and more people lose sight of the horrors of war, works such as From A Stretcher Handle serve as raw and powerful reminders of what so many fought and died for. At the sametime, Walker's words set Prince Edward Island firmly in thecanon of First World War literature.
This book celebrates and critiques the dynamics of innovation, governance, and culture in place. Case studies from both sides of the North Atlantic illustrate episodes of "turning around" ; evolution, transformation, and visionary strategy that breathe new life into the term "think global, act local." The studies explore how various dark horses including minorities, small towns, peripheries, Aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice, or political leverage can rise to the occasion and chart livable futures.
Tihs book celebrates and critiques the dynamics of innovation, governance, and culture in place. Case studies from both sides of North Atlantic illustrate episodes of "turning around" ; evolution, transformation, and visionary strategy that breathe new life into the term "think global, act local.' The studies explore how various dark horses including minorities, small towns, peripheries, Aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice, or political leverage can rise to the occasion and chart livable futures.
Hockeytown PEI first stepped onto the ice in the fall of 2014 to the cheers of hockey fans across PEI. This lavishly illustrated book looks at Canada's national obsession and how it defines and enhances life in the fiercely proud, spud-growing community of O'Leary, PEI. Written by award-winning author Wayne Wright, he covers a century of change down at the old country rink.
It takes you back to a tie when "farm team" meant a bunch of country kids battling around a "road apple" with their Red Dot wooden hockey sticks on an icy potato-patch - to the present day when teenage superstars bring their own massage therapists and contract lawyers, and their hockey sticks are made from 100% genuine space-age plastic. Yes, we said plastic.
A tale lit by kerosene lamp and woven from a hat trick of personal memories, scintillating statistics and bench-clearing humour, Hockeytown PEI is the perfect book for anyone who loves the Island, and who prefers their hockey served with a side order of rink fries. Whether you grew up on a family farm wishing for the little field by the wood lot to freeze over, or knew someone who did, you'll cherish this season's MVP award-winning amoung books ... Hockeytown PEI.
Born and raised in tumultuous times in East Asia, Hung-Min Chiang survived earthquakes, wars, foreign occupation, dictatorship, and illness before making is way to Prince Edward Island. While navigating his perilous journey, Chiang learned and practiced "The Way of Water," Daoist lessons for living drawn from Nature. Home is Where the Water Is examines the many critical turning points in a life and how these shaped the person he became.
Througout his memoir, Chiang reflects on the lessons of his mentor, American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) and his ancestor Chiang Taigong (1128-1015 BC), a wacky old fisherman whose outlandish techniques caught the attention of a king. His fascination with these enigmatic figures led to a lifetime of questions and a rewarding career in psychology. Home is Where the Water Is reveals how Dr. Chiang overcame adversity to find both his calling and happiness in North American with his wife Mei-chih and their three daughters.
Hung-Min Chiang received his PhD from Brandeis University, where he studied and worked with renowned psychologist Abraham H. Maslow. Together they co-edited The Healthy Personality: Readings. Dr. Chiang is also the award-winning author of Chinese Islanders: Making a Home in the New World. Dr Chiang taught Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island for many years. A humanist at heart, he is remembered fondly by his students as a dedicated, highly original, and inspiring professor with a self-deprecating sense of humour. He lives with his wife Mei-chih in a house overlooking the Charlottetown Harbour where three rivers meet.
Born and raised in tumultuous times in East Asia, Hung-Min Chiang survived earthquakes, wars, foreign occupation, dictatorship, and illness before making is way to Prince Edward Island. While navigating his perilous journey, Chiang learned and practiced "The Way of Water," Daoist lessons for living drawn from Nature. Home is Where the Water Is examines the many critical turning points in a life and how these shaped the person he became.
Througout his memoir, Chiang reflects on the lessons of his mentor, American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) and his ancestor Chiang Taigong (1128-1015 BC), a wacky old fisherman whose outlandish techniques caught the attention of a king. His fascination with these enigmatic figures led to a lifetime of questions and a rewarding career in psychology. Home is Where the Water Is reveals how Dr. Chiang overcame adversity to find both his calling and happiness in North American with his wife Mei-chih and their three daughters.
Hung-Min Chiang received his PhD from Brandeis University, where he studied and worked with renowned psychologist Abraham H. Maslow. Together they co-edited The Healthy Personality: Readings. Dr. Chiang is also the award-winning author of Chinese Islanders: Making a Home in the New World. Dr Chiang taught Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island for many years. A humanist at heart, he is remembered fondly by his students as a dedicated, highly original, and inspiring professor with a self-deprecating sense of humour. He lives with his wife Mei-chih in a house overlooking the Charlottetown Harbour where three rivers meet.
Inside the classroom: stories of curriculum and creativity / edited by
Sean Wiebe and Lori Gard with Kristopher Barnes.
Inside the classroom: stories of curriculum and creativity / edited by
Sean Wiebe and Lori Gard with Kristopher Barnes.
An Introduction to Island Studies is an approachable look at this interdisiplinary field - from islands as biodiversity hotspots, their settlement, human migration and occupation through to the place of islands in the popular imagination. Featuring geopolitical, social and economic frameworks, Randall gives a bottom-up guide to this most modern area of study. From the struggles and concerns of the Anthropocene - climate change, vulnerability and resilience, sustainble development, through to policy making and local environments - island studies has the potential to change the debate.
Dr. James (Jim) Randall teaches at UPEI, where he leads the Institute of Island Studies and is the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability. A geographer by training, Jim developed a love of Island Studies later in his career. His research spans many aspects of this interdisciplinary field, with a special interest in development, quality-of-life, and islander-newcomer relationships on small islands.
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Featuring 100 photographs borrowed from family collections, La Roche and Grand Ruisseau is a wonderful visual testimony to the rich Acadian heritage of Prince Edward Island. Most of the photos were taken between 1880 and 1980 and complemented by Georges Arsenault’s extended historical captions, they lovingly illustrate the family and community life of this most Francophone part of Prince Edward Island.
La Roche and Grand Ruisseau are the old names for the neighbouring parishes of Egmont Bay and Mont-Carmel, which make up almost all of the Evangeline Region of PEI. Renowned for its talented musicians and artisans, this region is also recognized as the stronghold of the co-operative movement on PEI.
As a native son of this region of the Island, historian and folklorist Georges Arsenault knows it well and holds it dear to his heart. This book celebrates the bicentennial of the arrival of the first settlers to this area in 1812.
The book focuses on the experience of six North Atlantic, cold-water islands boasting distinct constitutional arragements. These range from full sovereignty (Iceland) to federation (Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador), to federacy or home rule status (Faroe Islands; Isle of Man; Aland Islands) It explorse how different constitutional, political and cultural features of these islands are deployed in strategic economic thinking and planning, leading these jurisdictions to craft a real "political economy."
The comparative interplay of economic and juridical resources is taken up in relation to four major economic domains: the primary sector; small-scale manufacturing, export of knowledge based services and tourism. In the outcome, practical "best practice" proposals are suggested.
The bookshows the "gift of jurisdiction" as a strategy enabler, with law and public policy serving as the fuel for development in a decentralizing globalized world offering loopholes or a special arrangements to exploit.
"Well-written, superbly detailed, and delightfully witty ... I read this collection of letters in one gulp ... I gave this manuscript to my 86-year old mother who also read it in one sitting."
Dr. Margaret Conrad, Honorary Research Professor at the University of New Brunswick
FROM THE INTRODUCTION by folklorist John Cousins:
"There was a time, no further away than half a century, when Canadians were mainly a country of people, scattered in a network of village and farming communities, to the edges of Canada ... And, in thousands of these places, seeking to give spiritual unity to the ordinary people, laboured the Protestant clergyman and his wife.
They were a special breed, these churchman and women. We knew them from a distance, for they were in our place, but somehow not of it ... They did not attend dances nor did they discuss hockey. They had apparently no knowledge of the fight at the party down the road ... They did not Gossip, and They Did Not Take The Lord Their God in Vain. Some of them (the men) smoked, but most did not, and, surely, They Did Not Drink. Most important of all, They Did Not Talk Politics...
We knew also that Protestant clergy usually came in pairs, and that, too, was good ... thus, The United Church Couple.
Of course, we know now that our views of them were wrong, and that our picture was painted only in stark black and white ... we look in vain for a good description of what they thought of us, of themselves, of the immensely important work they did, and of the countryside in which they laboured ... Hence the importance of Joan Colborne's wonderful Letters from the Manse. For she paints in the vivid colours we knew were there, and illuminated the fascinating personal experience of two young, idealistic, and dynamic church people in the rural Canada of half a century ago ..."
Mysterious lights, howling dogs, ringing sounds in the ear: these omens of death are part of a treasury of supernatural beliefs transmitted through centuries and across the Atlantic Ocean. Part memoir, part oral history, the author reflects on stories about bad fairies, witch control, ghosts, second sight, divination, healing incantations, attitudes toward death, and other links between Prince Edward Island and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Mysterious lights, howling dogs, ringing sounds in the ear: these omens of death are part of a treasury of supernatural beliefs transmitted through centuries and across the Atlantic Ocean. Part memoir, part oral history, the author reflects on stories about bad fairies, witch control, ghosts, second sight, divination, healing incantations, attitudes toward death, and other links between Prince Edward Island and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
This long overdue book provides a comprehensive guide to the Island's terrestrial and marine mammals. Rooted in historical accounts and local research, this book illuminates the lives of PEI mammals large and small. From the Little Brown Bat to Sowerby's Beaked Whale, this book highlights each species in illustrated detail and outlines the continued need for conservation efforts in this province.
This long overdue book provides a comprehensive guide to the Island's terrestrial and marine mammals. Rooted in historical accounts and local research, this book illuminates the lives of PEI mammals large and small. From the Little Brown Bat to Sowerby's Beaked Whale, this book highlights each species in illustrated detail and outlines the continued need for conservation efforts in this province.
Small non-profit organizations achieve a great deal with limited resources, volunteer boards, and small staff. Each staff member quickly becomes ket, and succeeds by multi-tasking, and networking. The embedded knowledge of such staff gained over the years - who they know, what they know, and how they know it - is lost when that person retires or moves to another job. It may be months or years before someone new is hired, and he or she then has to recapture that embedded knowledge, or recreate it.
Author Barbara Groome Wynne offers ways to retain, manage and transfer that knowledge which is key to small non-profit organizations. Using research done with numerous such groups, she has created Toolkit sheets which can capture an organization's explicit knowledge, e.g. its documents, databases and processes, plus the organization's tacit knowledge, which is the experience, wisdom and intuition of its staff and board members.
This book will save years in unnecessary learning curves and duplicated efforts, and wil help new staff become effectived quickly and easily.
The Toolkit Sheets include:
Articulating Mission and Values - How-to Guide
Defining Organizational Roles - Template
Functional Job Description - Template
Program Descriptions - Template
Effective Documentation - Tip Sheet
Effective Filing Systems - Tip Sheet
Developing a Mentoring Program - Guidelines
Sudden Loss of Executive Plan - Template
and more helpful tools toward capturing and sharing corporated knowledge.
Small non-profit organizations achieve a great deal with limited resources, volunteer boards, and small staff. Each staff member quickly becomes key, and succeeds by multi-tasking, and networking. The embedded knowledge of such staff gained over the years - who they know, what they know, and how they know it - is lost when that person retires or moves to another job. It may be months or years before someone new is hired, and he or she then has to recapture that embedded knowledge, or re-create it.
Author Barbara Groome Wynne offers way to retain, manage and transfer that knowledge which is key to small non-profit organizations. Using research done with numerous such groups, she has created Toolkit sheets which can capture an organization's explicit knowledge, e.g. its documents, databases and processes, plus the organization's tacit knowledge, which is the experience, wisdom and intuition of its staff and board members.
This book will save years in unnecessary learning curves and duplicated efforts, and help new staff become effective quickly and easily.
The Toolkit Sheets include:
Articulating Mission and Values - How-to Guide
Defining Organizational Roles - Template
Functional Job Descriptions - Template
Program Descriptions - Template
Effective Documentation - Tip Sheet
Effective Filing Systems - Tip Sheet
Developing a Mentoring Program - Guidelines
Sudden Loss of Executive Plan - Template
and more helpful Tools toward capturing and sharing corporate knowledge
"Being and islander means that you aren't like everyone else," write Laurie Brinklow in her new book, My island's the house I sleep in at night. Bounded by water, you can live your life with certainty knowing where your edges are. Drawn from interviews with artists, writers, and musicians from Newfoundland, Tasmania, and Prince Edward Island, these poems capture what it means to be an islander. To know every rock and tickle, "the sea your road/the hole in the sky/your light to travel by."
In her highly anticipated second collection of poems, Brinklow weaves stories and images with her own poetic imaginings. These are poems steeped in community memory, about belonging to a place like nowhere else, a kitchen party full of islanders telling stories about the patch of rock they call home.
"Being and islander means that you aren't like everyone else," write Laurie Brinklow in her new book, My island's the house I sleep in at night. Bounded by water, you can live your life with certainty knowing where your edges are. Drawn from interviews with artists, writers, and musicians from Newfoundland, Tasmania, and Prince Edward Island, these poems capture what it means to be an islander. To know every rock and tickle, "the sea your road/the hole in the sky/your light to travel by."
In her highly anticipated second collection of poems, Brinklow weaves stories and images with her own poetic imaginings. These are poems steeped in community memory, about belonging to a place like nowhere else, a kitchen party full of islanders telling stories about the patch of rock they call home.
In 1773, a wealthy Quaker merchant from London, England named Robert Clark launched an ambitious, idealistic settlement at the entrance to New London Bay on Prince Edward Island, at what is today the end of the Cape Road, in French River. He brought skilled Quaker tradespeople and their families to the wilderness of the 1770's with the dream of building a bustling commercial outpost on the doorstep of the new world. Clark named this settlement "New" London, after the city he had left. For almost twenty years New London survived and occasionally thrived, despite the harsh weather and living conditions of P.E.I.'s north shore, before colliding headlong with the realities of political and economic life in an infant colony during a time of war.
Drawing upon fresh sources and squeezing insight from existing accounts, author John cousins delivers this remarkable piece of Island history, little known until now. He recreates the life - and death - of New London and its Quaker settlers, complete with heroes and villains, hope and disenchantment, miscalculationand ill fortune, and provides a fascinating portrait of early British settlement on Prince Edward Island.
In 1773, a wealthy Quaker merchant from London, England named Robert Clark launched an ambitious idealistic settlement at the entrance to New London Bay on Prince Edward Island, at what is today the end of the Cape Road, in French River. He brought skilled tradespeople and their families to the wilderness of PEI in the 1770's, with the dream of building a bustling commercial outpost on the doorstep of the new world. Clark named this settlement "New" London, after the city he had come from. For almost 20 years New London survived and occasionally thrived, despite the harsh weather and living conditions of PEI's north shore in winter, before colliding headlong with the realities of political and economic life in an infant colony during a time of war.
Drawing upon fresh sources and squeezing insight from existing accounts, author John Cousins deliversthis remarkable piece of Island history, virtually unknown until now. He recreates life - and death - of New London and its Quaker families, complete with heroes and villains, hope and disenchantment, miscalculation and ill fortune, and provides a fascinating portrait of early British settlement on Prince Edward Island.
From 1820 to 2016 on PEI, the Owen Connolly Estate has funded approximately $3 million to help thousands of Island students of Irish Catholic heritage gain a higher education and achieve career success. This is the remarkable rags-to-riches story of the man who created this legacy, and the people who protected it.
Owen Connolly was a young immigrant lad escaping poverty and repression in his homeland of Ireland when he first stepper onto the docks in Charlottetown, PEI in 1839. Armed with a little more than determination and grit and a brilliant financial mind, over the next forty years he rose from being a dirt-poor farmer in Watervale to one of the wealthiest men on Prince Edward Island.
Hardcover.
by Leonard Cusack
10 chapters with b/w photos, plus 8-page "Appreciations Gallery" colour insert
Endnotes, Bibliography, Index
From 1820 to 2016 on PEI, the Owen Connolly Estate has funded approximately $3 million to help thousands of Island students of Irish Catholic heritage gain a higher education, and achieve career success. This is the remarkable rags-to-riches story of the man who created his legacy, and the people who protected it.
Owen Connolly was a young immigrant lad escaping poverty and repression in his homeland of Ireland when he first stepped onto the docks in Charlottetown, PEI in 1839. Armed with little more than determination and grit and a brilliant financial mind, over the next forty years he rose from being a dirt-poor farmer in Watervale to one of the wealthiest men on Prince Edward Island.
Hardcover.
by Leonard Cusack
10 chapters with b/w photos, plus 8-page "Appreciation Gallery" colour insert
Endnotes, Bibliography, Index.
The story of the Atlantic Veterinary College goes back to the early 1970s, when veterinary staffing forecasts called for more veterinarians and more capacity to train them. But how to address that need- and, more importantly, where-turned into nearly two decades of wrangling, controversy, and negotiations among federal and provincial politicians, government officials, and academics. Finally, on June 3, 1983, thedeal to build the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island was signed.
With a cast of colourful characters featuring the Hon. Eugene Whelan, federal misiter of Agriculture; and several Atlantic premiers, including PEI's Alex Campbell and Jim Lee, Nova Scotia's John Buchanan, and New Brunswick's Richard Hartfield, Pets, Professors, and Politicians tells the story of the AVC, from it's earliest beginnings to the present day. Full of stories and photos of people- and of course, animals-the modern day David and Goliath story is sure to inform and entertain.
This book respresents the most local output of a major research project developed at the University of Prince Edward Island, and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Contributors were guided to look specifically at what lessons Prince Edward Island may care to scrutinize from a global review of over 100 islands that enjoy similar measures of policy autonomy: from Bermuda to Tasmania, from the Cook Islands to the Faroes. While respectful of diversity, this book collates policy papers that emerge as particularly salient in the development strategies of most sub-national (or no sovereign) island jurisdictions today, and locates them within Prince Edward Island's own context. The outcome, we hope, is a handy manual for reflection for all those engaged in, and concerned with, governance on PEI.
When viewed from the air, PEI?s landscape is fondly described as a patchwork quilt of green, red and gold, floating on a sea of blue. The province?s largest industry is agriculture and the sweat and toil and pride of farming is shared by generations of farm families. On such a small island, land is precious, and well cared for. For various reasons including historical, Islanders resent being told what to do with their land. Various provincial governments have avoided implementing the recommendations of land use commissions, knowing it would be political suicide. This book examines this politicalinertia around making decisions on land use on PEI, and delivers thoughtful recommendations on finally moving forward.
A book of Prince Edward Island farm horses and their people, Remembering Old Dan is a recepient of a Prince Edward Island Book Award, written by Marian Bruce, including pictures and stories from across the Province.
Return of the Wild Goose explores the life of writer and activist Katherine Hughes. Set against the intimate relief of a PEI landscape, these poems are inspired by what is known and unknown about her contradictory life as a Catholic teacher in Mohawk territory; a journalist working alongside Canada's first-wave feminists and suffragettes; the first public archivist of Alberta; and finally, as a zealous propagandist for the Irish cause. This (auto)biographical dialogue between Jane Ledwell and Katherine Hughes offers the reader a fierce remembrance of a PEI radical.
Return of the Wild Goose explores the life of writer and activist Katherine Hughes. Set against the intimate relief of a PEI landscape, these poems are inspired by what is known and unknown about her contradictory life as a Catholic teacher in Mohawk territory; a journalist working alongside Canada's first-wave feminists and suffragettes; the first public archivist of Alberta; and finally, as a zealous propagandist for the Irish cause. This (auto)biographical dialogue between Jane Ledwell and Katherine Hughes offers the reader a fierce remembrance of a PEI radical.
This book is a 'go-to' resource for anyone interested in islands. From tourist paradises to immigrant detention camps, from offshore finance centres to strategic military bases, islands offer distinct identities and spaces in an increasinglyhomogeneous and placeless world. The study of islands is important for its own sake and on its own terms. But so is thenotion that the island is a laboratory, a place for developing and testing ideas, and from which lessons can be learnedand applied elsewhere.
The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies is a global, research-based andpluri-disciplinary overview of the study of islands. Its chapters deal with the contribution of islands to literature, social science, and natural science, as well as other applied areas of inquiry. The collated expertise of interdisciplinary and international scholars offers unique insights: individual chapters dwell on geomorphology, zoology and evolutionary biology; the history, sociology, economics and politics of island communities; tourism, well-being and migration; aswell as island branding, resilience and "commoning." The text also offers pioneering forays into the study ofislands that are cities, along rivers, or artificial constructions.
This insightful Handbook will appeal to geographers, environmentalists, sociologists, political scientists, and, one hopes, some of the 600 million or so people who live on islands or are interested in the rich dynamics of islands and island life.
Featuring vintage and contemporary photos, Saltwater Road is a story about neighbours divided by, and connected by, water the eastern Northumberland Strait between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and about the often-heroic efforts made to maintain that waterborne connection.
Many of the people in this book are, in fact, unsung heroes from the brave ice boat crews of the eighteenth century to the businessmen who overcame great obstacles to start the modern ferry service, to the employees who have kept it running for more than seven decades.
You will also meet a few villains, some eccentric characters and dozens of ordinary, hard-working people who tell tales laced with romance, tragedy, hardship, love determination, the supernatural and laugh-out-loud humour.
Author Marian Bruce has had a lifelong love affair with the Woods Islands-Caribou ferries and theNorthumberland Strait. Marian Bruce is the author of Remembering Old Dan: Farm Horses and People of Prince Edward Island, and Making It Home, the memoir of Angus MacLean. For Island Studies Press, she has authored Pets, Professors and Politicians, The Founding and Early Years of the Atlantic Veterinary College, ACentury of Excellence, Prince of Wales College 1860-1969, and co-authored Working Together, Two Centuries of Cooperation on Prince Edward Island.
In 1765 surveyor Samuel Holland created the first accurate map of Prince Edward Island, dividing into three countiesand 67 townships and designating the county capitals. Holland's map has had an enormous impact on the evolution of Prince Edward Island, shaping its settlement, its patterns of land ownership, the place names that dot its landscape, and even the Island's status as a separate colony and province.
In Samuel Holland: His Work and Legacy on Prince Edward Island, Earle Lockerby and Douglas Sobey place Holland's survey within the context of the British policy for the settlement and governance of its territories in North America. They describe the stages of the year-long survey, including the names of the men who made up his survey teams. They explore the historical significance of Holland's work on the Island and assess his enduring legacy on its poitical and cultural geography.
Wayne Wright penned cartoons for The Journal Pioneer daily newspaper for 35 years and this collection reflects the best of his environmental, political, sports, and "Island way of life" cartoons in that time. In addition to making us laugh at ourselves, he occasionally stirs up a tempest. The former mayor of Montague, Pat McGowan, threatened to haul him up before the United Nations Human Rights Tribunal for his series of cartoons about her outlawing dogs riding in the back of pick-up trucks in Montague. Another reader thought Wayne should be publicly flogged for one of the many cartoons he's drawn about Summerside Mayor Basil Stewart.
Bu this cartoons also warm our hearts. Wayne reached his largest audience after 9/11 in New York, when late night TV host David Letterman held up Wayne's now-famous Twin Towers cartoon, in an attempt to cheer up a devastated America.
In his foreword, CBC Charlottetown radio host Matt Rainnie said that he relies on Wayne's cartoons to identify what Islanders are talking about each day at their kitchen tables and in the coffee shops, be it curious municipal by-laws, windmills, rock stars or roadwork.
The Lebanese in Prince Edward Island make up less than one percent of the population. Within the Canadian context that makes them a small fraction of a small fraction. But a group is not interesting or significant simply because of its numbers. Most Prince Edward Islanders understand this. It is the texture and genius of individual experience which is the real touchstone of human history, and the study of a few people can sometimes disclose more than the study of many. By looking carefully at the small number of Lebanese who have come to the Island, we are able to learn some important things about them, about ourselves, and also about the universal themes of emigration and acculturation.
How did a farm boy from Prince Edward Island become a successful businessman, mentor and community philanthropist? In 1970, Regis Duffy, then dean of science at UPEI, started a small chemical reagent company to create summer jobs for his students. Diagnostic Chemicals and its offspring, BioVectra, soon grew into global competitors in the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industry, employed hundreds of Islanders, and provided a model for entrepreneurship and economic development in Canada's smallest province. The key to his success? As Regis once said, "Innovate or die; the alternative is not that appealing."
Mo Duffy Cobb is the author of Unpacked: from PEI to Palawan (Pottersfield Press, 2017). She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is the founder and artistic director of Wild Threads Literary Festival. She lives in beautiful Prince Edward Island, where she is the executive director of the PEI Writers' Guild.
Lori Mayne is a writer, researcher, and editor, as well as a writing instructor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her research and editing projects have included Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy 1820-2016. A former journalist, she won the Island Literary Award for creative non-fiction for a personal essay in 2012.
How did a farm boy from Prince Edward Island become a successful businessman, mentor and community philanthropist? In 1970, Regis Duffy, then dean of science at UPEI, started a small chemical reagent company to create summer jobs for his students. Diagnostic Chemicals and its offspring, BioVectra, soon grew into global competitors in the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industry, employed hundreds of Islanders, and provided a model for entrepreneurship and economic development in Canada's smallest province. The key to his success? As Regis once said, "Innovate or die; the alternative is not that appealing."
Mo Duffy Cobb is the author of Unpacked: from PEI to Palawan (Pottersfield Press, 2017). She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is the founder and artistic director of Wild Threads Literary Festival. She lives in beautiful Prince Edward Island, where she is the executive director of the PEI Writers' Guild.
Lori Mayne is a writer, researcher, and editor, as well as a writing instructor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her research and editing projects have included Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy 1820-2016. A former journalist, she won the Island Literary Award for creative non-fiction for a personal essay in 2012.
Over the eight years of writing her popular monthly column for PEI's entertainment newspaper,The Buzz artist JoDee Samuelson captures the soft edges of rural life on the peaceful South Shore of Prince Edward Island.
The passing of seasons, the rise and fall of gardens, the friendship with neighbours, and simple daily lifeare all presented against the endearing backdrop of "The Cove." JoDee's expressive illustrations that accompany each chapter add the perfect touch.
Over the eight years of writing her popular monthly column for PEI's entertainment newspaper,The Buzz artist JoDee Samuelson captures the soft edges of rural life on thepeaceful South Shore of Prince Edward Island.
The passing of seasons, the rise and fall of gardens, the friendship with neighbours, and simple daily life are all presented against the endearing backdrop of "The Cove." JoDee's expressive illustrations that accompany each chapter add the perfect touch.
As both People's Poet and Governor General's award winner, Milton Acorn was the only Islander to achieve significant national recognition for the poetry and prevails as the very symbol of poetic expression on PEI.
"Now when I read Milton Acorn's poems and come across lines like 'I've tasted my blood too much / to love what I was born to?' or his marvelous jeu d'esprit, 'The National History of Elephants'... they take on deeper meaning for me, for I know they're intrinsically his, as much as the gravelly rasp, the cheeks' and dignity against those who would keep those from them." - Irving Layton, "Reminiscence by Irving Layton"
"Acorn is an affirmative voice, a gentleness masked with ferocity, the best of our traditional wisdom expressed in forceful up-to-date diction." - Fred Cogswell, "Three Arc-Light Groups"
In 1975, in the midst of the worldwide oil crisis, Prince Edward Island was facing the highest engery prices in Canada. But Canada's smallest province became the talk of the nation when the government of Alex B. Campbell took a bold step: it proposed to make the Island a veritable laboratory forrenewable energy. Thus was born the Institute of Man and Resources, whose mandate was to research, develop, and demonstrate systems for alternative energy and resource self-sufficiancy. Most often associated with the Ark, a "bioshelter" experiment in sustainable living, the IMR attracted a mix of back-to-the-landers, committed young engineers, scientists, and ordinary citizens interested in moving the world beyond oil. The IMR also attracted considerable attention in envirnomental circles, nationally and even internatioanlly.
However, within a decade, it was all over, and the Institute of Man and Resources was dead. Why did the collapse occur? How had the Institute made such a name for itself in the first place? And what is its legacy? This book chronicles the rise and fall of the institute of Man and Resources, an important Canadian environmental group of the 1970's,and contributes to the broader literature on the history ofenvironmentalism. Indeed, as the debate over global warmingsharpens public awareness once more about the repercussionsof fossil fuel use, this balanced and nuanced history seemsmore timely and relevant than ever.
Sir Andrew MacPhail (1864-1938) was the first professor of the history of medicine at McGill University, and a distinguished Canadian man-of-letters. The Master's Wife is a semi-autobiographical memoir of his early years in Orwell, Prince Edward Island.
The North Atlantic fisheries are in crisis. How did this come about, and what is to be done? This book examines five cold water islands: Prince Edward Island, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and the Faroe Islands, which have fishing as a main industry, and the consequences of that industry.
Comedic, satirical, and attimes solemn, The Philosopher showcases the range of human complexity from nonsense to wisdom. Murray's characters range from a philosopher in chains brought up from the basement to entertain guests to a psychologist who assists a traumatized patient to become more self-aware, only to result in greater angst. Provocative, perceptive, and rife with questionsabout the motives and morality of our everyday conduct, The Philosopher ultimately deals with the search for meaning and our need to believe. Murray writes, "Believe what though? Politics. Religion. Sports. It's obvious that content doesn't matter. It's just belief itself. What they fear most is not believing. No one can stand that."
Comedic, satirical, and attimes solemn, The Philosopher showcases the range of human complexity from nonsense to wisdom. Murray's characters range from a philosopher in chains brought up from the basement to entertain guests to a psychologist who assists a traumatized patient to become more self-aware, only to result in greater angst. Provocative, perceptive, and rife with questionsabout the motives and morality of our everyday conduct, The Philosopher ultimately deals with the search for meaning and our need to believe. Murray writes, "Believe what though? Politics. Religion. Sports. It's obvious that content doesn't matter. It's just belief itself. What they fear most is not believing. No one can stand that."
In their day, they didn't consider themselves herioc. But 100 years later, and knowing better the horrors they endured in the First World War, Those Splendid Girls salutes the courage of all Canadian nurses who served and redresses a century-old wrong: the absense in the historical narratives of P.E.I. - and of Canada - of the contribution of nurses to the First World War.
Over 115 women from Prince EdwardIsland answered the call to the war, and many of their names were unknown until now. Granted rare access to personal diaries, letters home, and wartime photo albums tucked away industy attics, Katherine Dewar has pieced together Island nurses' stories of hospitals, bombing, fear and friendships, to deliver this powerful new account of the Great War.
At war's end, many Island nurses were unwilling to swap their wartime autonomy and authority for housework and poorly paid nursing positions on P.E.I.; instead, they received senior appointments in nursing schools and in hospital administration, most often in the "Boston States" and in California, and through these, made lasting contributions to the profession of nursing in North America.
Presenting the latest research on canine Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, Tick-borne Disease in Dogs is an invaluable reference for veterinarians and dog owners. As geographic ranges of ticks and their associated vector-borne pathogens rapidly expand in Central, Eastern and Atlantic Canada, it is imperative to understand the complex relationships surrounding the incidence of disease in dogs to inform management and prevention.
Michelle Evason is an associate professor in small animal internal medicine at the Atlantic Veterinary College (Prince Edward Island, Canada), an adjunct professor at the University of Guelph, and also works as an independent medical and nutrition consultant. She has a range of clinical research interests, some of which include: infectious disease (with an emphasis on Lyme, tick-borne, and leptospirosis), antimicrobial stewardship, nutrition, and veterinary (and pet-owner) knowledge, attitudes and practices surrounding these topics.
With its long and well-documented history, Prince EdwardIsland makes a compelling case study for thousands of yearsof human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada's "garden province" are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the tides.
Bringing together experts from a multitude of disciplines, the essays in Time and a Place explore the island's marine and terrestrial environment from its prehistory to its recent past. Beginning with PEI's history as a blank slate - a land scraped by ice and then surrounded by rising seas - this mosaic of essays documents the arrival of flora, fauna, and humans, and the different ways these inhabitants have lived in this place over time. The collection offers policy insights for the province while also informing broader questions about the value of islands and other geographically bounded spaces for the study of environmental history and the crafting of global sustainability.
Putting PEI at the forefront of Canadian environmental history, Time and a Place is a remarkable work that illuminates the numerous forces that shape and change ecosystems.
With its long and well-documented history, Prince EdwardIsland makes a compelling case study for thousands of yearsof human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada's "garden province" are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the tides.
Bringing together experts from a multitude of disciplines, the essays in Time and a Place explore the island's marine and terrestrial environment from its prehistory to its recent past. Beginning with PEI's history as a blank slate - a land scraped by ice and then surrounded by rising seas - this mosaic of essays documents the arrival of flora, fauna, and humans, and the different ways these inhabitants have lived in this place over time. The collection offers policy insights for the province while also informing broader questions about the value of islands and other geographically bounded spaces for the study of environmental history and the crafting of global sustainability.
PuttingPEI at the forefront of Canadian environmental history, Time and a Place is a remarkable work that illuminates the numerous forces that shape and change ecosystems.
Time Flies offers an unprecedented view of one island province’s journey into modernity through a unique blend of aerial photography and historical synthesis. The book presents images of iconic landscapes on Prince Edward Island and traces how those communities and natural ecosystems have changed over 85 years (1935–2020). Each site history illustrates and reflects on the nature of modern land use and land cover change in one of four chapters organized around primary resource economies, rural communities, urban development, and islands and coastal change. Time Flies offers a visually rich discussion of one island as the world and offers lessons that we can learn from the social and ecological transformation of PEI.
Dr. Joshua MacFadyen is the Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities and an associate professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program at University of Prince Edward Island. His previous books include Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent and Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island.
We'll Meet Again shares the incredible stories of women from Prince Edward Island who served in the Second World War, from fire-watching during bombing raids in blacked-out London to surviving the sinking of a transport ship in the Mediterranean. Drawn from interviews, diaries, letters, community histories and archival research, Dewar demonstrates how the on- and off-duty experiences these women had in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Canadian Army Medical Corps, the South African Military Nursing Service, and Red Cross tested their stamina, their courage, and their compassion.
An appendix lists over 700 women from PEI who served in the Second World War, many of whom had never left the Island before attending basic training. They welcomed their new roles and responsibilities as cooks, drivers, nurses, writers, parachute packers, and entertainers. Many made lifelong friendships. A few of them even found love. After their return, many women continued to serve as public health nurses, dieticians, homemakers, and volunteers, making a lasting contribution to their communities.
Katherine Dewar is the author of Those Splendid Girls and Called to Serve, which chronicle the lives of the military women of PEI. Dewar has been honoured by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, the PEI Community Museums Association, the City of Summerside, and the Canadian Nurses Association for her contributions in recording PEI women's history.
We'll Meet Again shares the incredible stories of women from Prince Edward Island who served in the Second World War, from fire-watching during bombing raids in blacked-out London to surviving the sinking of a transport ship in the Mediterranean. Drawn from interviews, diaries, letters, community histories and archival research, Dewar demonstrates how the on- and off-duty experiences these women had in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Canadian Army Medical Corps, the South African Military Nursing Service, and Red Cross tested their stamina, their courage, and their compassion.
An appendix lists over 700 women from PEI who served in the Second World War, many of whom had never left the Island before attending basic training. They welcomed their new roles and responsibilities as cooks, drivers, nurses, writers, parachute packers, and entertainers. Many made lifelong friendships. A few of them even found love. After their return, many women continued to serve as public health nurses, dieticians, homemakers, and volunteers, making a lasting contribution to their communities.
Katherine Dewar is the author of Those Splendid Girls and Called to Serve, which chronicle the lives of the military women of PEI. Dewar has been honoured by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, the PEI Community Museums Association, the City of Summerside, and the Canadian Nurses Association for her contributions in recording PEI women's history.
Wayne Wright figures he's drawn the faces of ten thousand Islanders over the years. Most of them appear on the editorial page of Summerside's Journal Pioneer - he's been drawing that newpaper's daily cartoon since 1979. Other faces showup on posters promoting celebrity roast fundraisers, and asportraits marking special occasions in our Island lives. "I love faces," says Wayne. "They may be the greatest ornament God bestows upon us. Happily, most Islander have faces - politicans sometimes own two. In an Islander's face one can read the story of that man or woman's life, dreams and heartbreaks." This is not your usual Who's Who of the rich and famous. There are a few politicans and premiers, business leaders and sports heros, but Wayne's favourite faces belong to salt-of-the-earth Islanders "who live by the side of the road and are a friend to man."
Throughout the years, everywhere in the world, people have adopted co-operative models as an effective way to do business. Working together is a tangible expression of a philosophy that gives ordinary people control over their lives.
Prince Edward Islanders have long been engaged in co-operation, consistently putting their own stamp on co-operative ideas they saw elsewhere, and shaping them to fit their own distinct needs. Where no models existed, Islanders created their own: institutions such as farmer's banks and fishermen's unions, which in turn inspired others.
Working Together tells the story of the co-op movement in Prince Edward Island from its beginnings in the 19th century to its prospects for the 21st. Based on exhaustive research and dozens of oral interviews, and written in a journalistic style, it bursts with portraits of individuals and communities working together to create better conditions in challenging times. The book highlights a part of PEI's history that has shaped its working landscape, and which continues to offer relevant lessons on how it might shape its future.
A World of Islands provides a global, research-based, comprehensive and pluri-disciplinary overview of the study of islands. The expertise and insights of 42 scholars and contributors offers a unique collection of theoretical principles, ideas, observations and policy proposals from, and for, the study of islands and island life.
Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada; Visiting Professor of Sociology and Labour Studies at the University of Malta, Malta; and the Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal.
The Bridge Effect features bridged islands-both physical and metaphorical-from around the globe. Bridging an island is often a polarizing subject. A permanent link allows for the transport of people and goods on-and off-island and can even allow an island to remain a viable place to live. At the same time, it changes the character of an island as bounded and set apart from the mainland. Not all bridges are physical. In recent years, access to broadband is allowing islanders to be part of the global world but still make a living on their islands. From the economic effects resulting from these links to how islanders feel about themselves once they've been joined to a mainland or another island, the book explores if and how "islandness"--and, ultimately, island identiy has changed on these small islands.
Laurie Brinklow is a writor, editor, Assistant Professor, and the Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) program at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her research focus on islandness and island identity, including the power of place and story. She is the author of My island's the house I sleep in at night and Here for the Music.
Anderw Jennings lives in Shetland, Scotland's most northernly islands, famous for their Nordic cultural inheritance that inspires his research and teaching. He is an Associate Professor of Island Studies based at UHI Shetland, where he works with the Institute for Nothern Studies.
Inclusive Education: A Global Perspective provides an overview of the legislation, policies, and challenges to inclusive practices and offers recommendations for the improvement of inclusive education across many global jurisdictions. This scholarly survey of international approaches focuses not only on disability as a separate entity but recognizes that it is closely intertwined with cultural, sociological, and economic realities of daily human life. “Best” practices cannot be transplanted but need to arise from an understanding of local contexts and resources to be successful.
Dr. Carla DiGiorgio teaches sociology and research methods at UPEI. She has been a professor and researcher for over twenty years and specializes in social systems. Her interests lie at the intersection of ability, society, and culture in educational environments. She is the author of four books, including Inclusive Education: The interaction of identity, power and practice and Field and Habitus in the 21st Century.
Inclusive Education: A Global Perspective provides an overview of the legislation, policies, and challenges to inclusive practices and offers recommendations for the improvement of inclusive education across many global jurisdictions. This scholarly survey of international approaches focuses not only on disability as a separate entity but recognizes that it is closely intertwined with cultural, sociological, and economic realities of daily human life. “Best” practices cannot be transplanted but need to arise from an understanding of local contexts and resources to be successful.
Dr. Carla DiGiorgio teaches sociology and research methods at UPEI. She has been a professor and researcher for over twenty years and specializes in social systems. Her interests lie at the intersection of ability, society, and culture in educational environments. She is the author of four books, including Inclusive Education: The interaction of identity, power and practice and Field and Habitus in the 21st Century.
A frequent summer visitor to PEI, Barbara Palmer Rousseau experienced its true beauty when she moved from Ontario to the Island. At her cottage in St. Peters Harbour on the northeast shore, she learned the seasonal rhythms of spring peepers and barefoot beah walks, fall hurricanes and winter freeze-up. Her creativity returned as she began to sketch her fox family neighbours, the nearby dunes and the sand-locked lighthouse. Her essays reflect on the fluid nature of the shore and tell a story of adapation and hope.
Author bio: Barbara Palmer Rousseau moved to Prince Edward Island in 2020 to return to school after a thirty-year career in Ottawa's software development industry. She is currenly completing a Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) at UPEI, studying the environmental history of the north shore dunes and the resulting implications for the future of the Island.
On March 1, 1847, Prince Edward Island experienced the second-worst election riot in Canadian history. During the Belfast Riot, about 200 Scottish Protestants and 300 Irish Catholics got into a brawl, resulting in at least three men dead and up to 100 others injured. This event set the stage for the hardening of the sectarian conflict between Protestants and Catholics on Prince Edward Islan for the next 125 years. The Belfast Riot of 1847 examines the social and political conditions that led to the riot, introduces us to the major players on both sides, provides a detailed account of its unfolding, and takes a nuanced look at who was to blame.
Author Bio: Callum Beck was born and raised in Charlottetown, PEI. He completed a BA in Philosophy at UPEI, a Master of Arts in Religion at Emmanuel School of Religion in Tennessee, and a PhD at Open University in the UK. He has served as a pastor and as sessional faculty at UPEI. He is married to Lorraine Beck, and they have three children and six grandchildren.
In The Geography of Home, MacDonald traces the rural Prince Edward Island that he grew up in from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, a landscape on the cusp of far-reaching change. The depiction of an era offered here is a mixed-media portrait, combining prose and poetry, history and memory. MacDonald writes that while history attempts to trace changes over time, “memories are the little, coloured stones that we collect to assemble a mosaic of our lived past"
The author bio:
Dr. Ed MacDonald is a professor emeritus from the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of If You’re Strong-hearted: Prince Edward Island in the Twentieth Century and co-author of The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island and has written, compiled, or co-edited 9 other books. In 2023-24 he was appointed to the Order of Canada and then the Order of Prince Edward Island for his work as an Island historian and teacher.
This collection of essays from islanders around the globe offers a complex understanding of the intersections of climate change and social change on islands. How are the effects of climate change and catastrophic weather experienced and narrated by islanders? What stories need to be told? How do local, traditional, and Indigenous knowledge practices facilitate the capacity to improvise, innovate, and to adapt to volatile weather events? How do social relations on climate-stressed islands continue to flourish? How do governance structures and issues of sovereignty support and\or inhibit climate and social justice? This interdisciplinary approach foregrounds island storytellers as they convey worldviews, knowledge, and cultural values, beliefs, and emotions that are often missing from climate change discourses.
Author bios
Jean Mitchell is a professor in Anthropology and the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability at the University of Prince Edward Island. Laurie Brinklow is a poet and assistant professor of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. Eric Mijts is a researcher, educator, and manager at the University of Aruba who focuses on sustainable development in small island states. Anouk Mertens is the former project manager of the EU-funded SISSTEM Project, who has a great interest in the intersection between sustainability and islandness.
