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Prince Edward Island: Provinces
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All of Prince Edward Island is part of the Maritime Plain, which ... covers parts of nearby New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The island is situated almost entirely at a low elevation, and the landscape is generally level to gently undulating, with few steep hills. The province is covered with a thick, mostly stone-free mantle of glacial deposits. Iron in the underlying rock has given much of the fertile surface soil a reddish color. Nearly all the rivers of Prince Edward Island are tidal; the tidal Hillsborough R. almost bisects the province. No freshwater lakes of significant size occur.
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While Prince Edward Island is the most densely populated province in Canada, there are 32 cities and towns with a larger population than Prince Edward Island. According to the 2001 Canadian Census,[10] the largest ethnic group consists of people of Scottish descent (38.0%), followed by English (28.7%), Irish (27.9%), French (21.3%), German (4.0%), and Dutch (3.1%) descent. Almost half of all respondents ... identified their ethnicity as "Canadian."
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Compared with the other Canadian provinces, Prince Edward Island has a very small forest-products industry. Its total annual production in the late 1980s was only about 460,000 cu m (about 16.2 million cu ft).
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Following the rejection of the latest union offer, Prince Edward Island embarked on a period of railway construction. James Pope believed that a railway network would generate employment, and provide an efficient means of transporting goods throughout the Island. As well, he believed it would benefit tourism. With wide public support, construction began in 1871. However, concerns soon arose over the mounting cost of the project. A provincial election in 1872 failed to resolve the economic problems; within the year, the government realized that the province faced imminent financial collapse unless help was found.
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In the 1890s an economic depression, or slowdown, hit the province hard, and many of Prince Edward Island's residents moved to the United States, where employment opportunities were more plentiful. Boston, Massachusetts, was the destination for most people who left the Island during this period. In 1896, Charles Dalton and Robert Oulton began to breed silver-black foxes on the Island. This quickly became an important industry, and as breeding spread and fur prices rose, some of the local fox ranchers became very wealthy. But the Great Depression of the 1930s brought the industry to a grinding halt.
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In the late 1980s Prince Edward Island was served by four commercial radio stations, three AM and one FM. The province had three daily newspapers—the Guardian and the Patriot, published in Charlottetown, and the Journal-Pioneer, published in Summerside—with a total daily circulation of about 35,200.
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