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Recent updates to our website.
Check out the new road camera website of the PEI Department of Transportation and Public Works.
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Charlottetown was named capital of the colony in 1765.
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On December 9 in Island history...
1818 Henry Smith, the lieutenant governor's son, underscores his father's demand that the Assembly adjourn by putting his fist through one of the windows in the Assembly room. "I ups with my fist and slashed it through the window," he confesses. He is unrepentant, but then, so is the governor.
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From the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation
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Moon's Illumination for 12/09/2006
Calculated using software from Sky & Telescope
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Information for: 12/9/2006
Sunrise: 07:43
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Sunset: 16:26
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| Environment Tip of the Day |
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Plastic debris is hazardous to wildlife. According to the World Society for the Protection of Animals, each year more than two million birds, turtles, whales, dolphins and seals become entangled in floating plastic debris, or mistake it for food.
From Environment & Energy.
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