The Lebanese in Prince Edward Island make up less than one percent of the population. Within the Canadian context that makes them a small fraction of a small fraction. But a group is not interesting or significant simply because of its numbers. By looking carefully at the small number of Lebanese who have come to the Island, we are able to learn some important things about them, about ourselves, and also about the universal themes of emigration and acculturation.

A Stream Out of Lebanon: An Introduction to the Coming of Syrian/Lebanese Emigrants to Prince Edward Island

History

Hornby, Jim

Americas

Univ of Prince Edwards Island

The Bonshaw Hills is a collection of 25 stories, anecdotes, reflections, and observations by a life-long resident of Prince Edward Island. The author has an ear for the vernacular of Islanders and an eye for the extraordinary in everyday life. Illustrated thorughtout by Island artist P. John Burden, this work is a unique contribution to Canadian literature.

The Bonshaw Hills

MacQuarrie, Ian

<p>Within living memory a revolution has occurred in the green and gentle countryside of Prince Edward Island. Over the past few decades the changes have been so profound that the recent past is now referred to by many as "them times." Based on the popular local CBC Radio series of the same name, Them Times is a collection of historical vignettes depicting Prince Edward Island before and after what some folklorists call "the break," that early post-World War II period when the twentieth century seemed to hit the Island all at once. David Weale combines anecdotal reminiscences of Islanders with some of his own musings and observations of a way of life that has all but disappeared.</p>

Them Times

Literature & Fiction

Weale, David

History & Criticism

Outlining development strategies for small islands within increasingly integrated regional and global economies, this book offers intriguing lessons in the culture, economics, and management of a sustainable pattern of development based on an island's locally proven, home-grown "good sense." Considered from the frameworks of internal economic organization and resource management and external integration and dependent development, Competing Strategies uses case studies on many islands in crafting innovative development approaches.

Competing Strategies of Socio-Economic Development for Small Islands (An Island Living)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

The North Atlantic fisheries are in crisis: witness the devastation of stocks, boundary disputes among nations, the destruction of livelihoods, and, in some places, the disappearance of a way of life. How did this come about? And what is to be done? The North Atlantic Fisheries looks at five important North Atlantic Islands that derive much of their economic livelihood and cultural identity from the cold waters that surround them. They are the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. This book examines the various ways in which each has attempted to use the resources of the sea -- principally fish -- to ensure human survival.

The North Atlantic Fisheries: Successes, Failures and Challenges (An Island Living)

University of Prince Edward Island Institute of Island Studies

Economics

At the height of the oil crisis of the 1970s, Canada's smallest province made a bold attempt to counter escalating energy costs. In 1975, facing the highest oil prices in the country, the government of Alex B. Campbell created the Institute of Man and Resources. With a mandate to research, develop, and demonstrate systems for alternative energy and resource self-sufficiency, the IMR turned Prince Edward Island into a veritable laboratory for renewable energy. Most often associated with the Ark "bioshelter" experiment in sustainable living, the Institute of Man and Resources attracted an eclectic mix of engineers and scientists, back-to-the-landers, and concerned citizens. It garnered considerable attention internationally as well as here in Canada, yet within a decade the Institute was gone. Why did the IMR collapse? And how did it stimulate so much excitement in the first place? This timely history chronicles one of Canada's most promising environmental initiatives, contributing at the same time to the broader debate over global warming and the repercussions of fossil-fuel use.

The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable

Science & Math

MacEachern, Alan

Nature & Ecology

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