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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2019-06-10 04:58 pm

[ISL] Five #PEI links: Airbnb, Charlottetown Mall, Crapaud, Région Évangéline, seaweed pie


  • CBC Prince Edward Island notes the proportionally extreme impact of Airbnb on the very tight housing market in Charlottetown.

  • The Guardian notes the redevelopment of the Charlottetown Mall will see new stores and several hundred new housing units.

  • Peter Rukavina reports on his successful electronic mapping of every building in the community of Crapaud.

  • CBC Prince Edward Island notes that a move to amalgamate the predominantly Francophone and Acadian west-end Région Évangéline into a single municipality has halted.

  • Atlas Obscura reports on the PEI dish of seaweed pie, made from Irish moss, once in the community of Miminegash and now available at the Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary.