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Matthew McRae looking at artifacts

Excavate and educate: Exhibit showcases Mi’kmaq and Acadian archaeological artifacts

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/excavate-and-educate-exhibit-showcases-mikmaq-and-acadian-archaeological-artifacts
2022-06-15
You never know what you can learn until you go digging. Literally. “Archaeology isn’t about what you find. It’s about what you find out,” says Matthew McRae, Executive Director of PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation (PEIMHF). This week, PEIMHF will officially launch its exhibit ‘Unearthing the Past...
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Meet PEI’s first business navigator

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/meet-peis-first-business-navigator
2022-02-23
Islanders may know Alicia Birt from Innovation PEI, where she worked with various divisions for over 15 years. Now, Alicia is working as PEI’s first business navigator, a role she started early last year, where she provides one-on-one support to Island business owners. “It’s simple. If you’re...
Artists Greg Webster and Sandy Carruthers

Drawing superpowered space-age stories of Prince Edward Island

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/drawing-superpowered-space-age-stories-of-prince-edward-island
2019-09-25
In the first edition of Sandstone Comics, readers see Prince Edward Island populated by super-powered humans, brooding cops, hyper-intelligent apes and extraterrestrial travelers. Artists and storytellers Greg Webster, Sandy Carruthers and Robert Doan have each created graphics tales of heroism and...
Zaneta Ambassa

A window on Zaneta's Life

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/a-window-on-zanetas-life
2019-02-22
Island filmmaker and musician Zaneta Ambassa says she would like to see the school curriculum expanded to teach Island students more of PEI's Black history. The 14-year-old Grade 9 Stonepark student says a lot of her classmates ask her questions about being black, black islanders and her...
Daniel Ikechukwu Ohaegbu

Studying and celebrating strong, diverse communities

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/studying-and-celebrating-strong-diverse-communities
2019-02-14
Island entrepreneur Daniel Ikechukwu Ohaegbu is working hard to build the Island’s multicultural community while researching some of the barriers that make it difficult for newcomers. Ikechukwu Ohaegbu immigrated from Nigeria five years ago to study psychology at UPEI. After graduation he began...
Tamara Steele

This lady's got soul - blues singer makes life on PEI

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/this-ladys-got-soul-blues-singer-makes-life-on-pei
2019-02-12
For the past two decades Tamara Steele has watched Prince Edward Island’s black community grow. The 37-year-old, originally from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, moved to PEI at age 17 to get a UPEI music degree. When she graduated in 2004, she decided to stay.  Wrapped in a worn crocheted shawl handmade...
Adam Perry

Drawing their own future - PEI cartoonists earn a living from home

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/drawing-their-own-future-pei-cartoonists-earn-living-home
2019-02-01
Government investments in the Island film industry are enabling filmmakers up to play on a national stage, says Adam Perry. Perry, a self-taught writer and filmmaker, says one of the first questions he is asked when pitching his projects to off-island industry partners is 'is your province on...
Student participant in choir for "O Kanata" athem project, PEI

Oh Kanata - Learning Canada's national anthem in Mi’kmaq

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/oh-kanata-learning-canadas-national-anthem-mikmaq
2019-01-16
Generations after residential schools eroded many indigenous languages, the Mi’kmaq version of our national anthem is ringing through Prince Edward Island schools, sung by Island children. It is a beautiful and poignant example of reconciliation efforts and Island filmmaker Harmony Wagner was...
Joel MacDonald and Kyle Simpson

Who says you can’t do it here

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/who-says-you-cant-do-it-here
2019-01-11
At Confound Films’ office, atop Receiver Coffee on Charlottetown’s historic Victoria Row, there is a unique piece of furniture. It’s a coffee table made from the trunk of a 100-year-old maple tree that filmmaker Kyle Simpson remembers playing under in his grandparent’s Walthen Drive home. It's...
Christina MacLeod

A passion for PEI

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/a-passion-for-pei
2019-01-10
Growing up in Charlottetown, Christina MacLeod felt a sense of responsibility for the planet, and she also knew she wanted to see lots of it. Community involvement started at age nine when Christina got fellow students at Spring Park Elementary and other Charlottetown schools to sign a petition to...
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