Many people who live in the Charlottetown area know Jennifer Evans. The general manager of Ocean 100 and Hot 105.5 radio stations can also be found chairing the Gold Cup Parade committee and serving on the boards of Junior Achievement, the Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce...
One of the planet’s top dog trainers runs his business in a place you might not expect. At an industrial park in Stratford, Duke Ferguson operates Unleashed Potential®, where dog trainers are trained and dogs from around the world learn to sniff out everything from bed bugs to...
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...
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...
Like many Islanders, Summerside business person Cora Lee Dunbar spends a lot of time at the rink. Whether she’s cheering on her son or her daughter or playing hockey herself, the single mother says keeping active is part of their family routine. Cora Lee is a committee member of...
Everyone loves their pets, but do you love yours enough to make a scarf or sweater out of its hair? That’s just one of the things Belfast Mini Mills customers are doing with unique – and sometimes rare – animal fibres like bison, muskox, camel, and alpaca. They’ll turn almost any...
The fibreglass fishing boats built by Kensington-based Provincial Boat and Marine Ltd are known worldwide for their speed, comfort, and durability. Owner Gordon Campbell jokes that the durability can be both a blessing and a curse. “The first one we ever built 42 years ago is...
At the largest folk festival in Australia that draws crowds of 120,000, a guitar-toting troubadour, Irish Mythen, sang Prince Edward Island’s praises. Two weeks later, an Australian couple Mythen met at her merchandise table e-mailed her photos of three Sydney-to-Charlottetown...
Their stock may be getting low as boating weather comes to a close for the year, but Mermaid Marine will be ready to supply North American boaters for the 2017 season. Staff at the successful wholesale marine distributor in Charlottetown are busy packing orders to ship to 1,000...
From his brick walled office in Charlottetown’s historic Connolly Building, Keir Pollard is helping a small town on the opposite end of the continent save water during one of the worst droughts in its history. Pollard, who hails from Murray Harbour and runs SpryPoint Solutions...