[PHOTO] Photos from the east of Prince Edward Island

Yesterday, my first full day in Prince Edward Island, was a quiet day spent with family down east. We drove east on the St. Peters Road (Prince Edward Island Route 2), visited Rick's Fish'n'Chips in St. Peter's Bay to pick up lunch, and spent time with various much-loved relatives (two uncles, one aunt, one cousin) in Rollo Bay. My uncle Edwin, in particular, is a wonderful gardened.







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[URBAN NOTE] Toronto, Prince Edward Island

On this year's visit, I definitely wanted to at least pass by the community of Toronto, to at least photograph some street signs. Why not? Toronto is just one of many seemingly misplaced communities on the map of Prince Edward Island--New Zealand, Norway, and Brooklyn all come to mind. Of all of these communities, though, Toronto may well be the most noticeable owing to its location just south of the resort destination of Cavendish.



The Prince Edward Island PlaceFinder doesn't say much about Toronto.

Toronto, an unincorporated area, is located in Queens County in the central portion of Prince Edward Island, SW. of North Rustico. Its precise location is N 46°27', W 63°23'.

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Martin (NOT Toronto)(Sett.) was adopted in Place names of PEI, 1925. Name changed to Toronto (Sett.) 22 November 1966 on 11L/6.Status changed to Locality 23 October 1989 on 203-8.

Where did Toronto get its name? I can't easily discover this on the Internet, owing to the sheer number of Google hits for "Toronto" and "Prince Edward Island" combined. Perhaps the name was changed to attract visitors?

Regardless of the reason for the community's name, Toronto PE is very different from Toronto ON. The archived 2006 census data for the region of Lot 23 that Toronto belongs to describes a community very different from the Toronto I've gotten to know over the past decade, with a falling and rural population composed entirely of Anglophones living overwhelmingly in single-family detached houses. The total population of Toronto PE would be much smaller still.