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Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Summerside hospital's ICU will be back up and running this summer, province says • Apr. 11, 2025, 2:08 AM ET (CBC)
New program at Summerside theatre aims to make young Islanders performing arts fans for life • Apr. 5, 2025, 4:49 AM ET (CBC)
Planned training and child-care centre next to Summerside hospital gets federal funding boost • Mar. 25, 2025, 4:53 AM ET (CBC)
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Summerside, city, seat (1876) of Prince county, on the southern coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The city lies along Bedeque Bay and Northumberland Strait, 38 miles (61 km) west of Charlottetown. Settled in 1780 as Green’s Shore by Daniel Green (a Quaker loyalist from Pennsylvania, U.S.), it was renamed for an inn, Summerside House, established there in 1840 by Joseph Green, the youngest son of the founder. Now a fishing port and summer resort, the city was long the centre of a silver fox- and mink-farming region and of the Malpeque Bay oyster industry. The city’s Acadian Museum has early 19th-century farm implements. Nearby is an airport. Inc. town, 1877; city, 1995. Pop. (2006) 14,500; (2011) 14,751.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.