Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...
, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.
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Milton Acorn
Milton James Rhode Acorn (March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986), nicknamed ''The People's Poet'' by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.
Early life
He was born in Prince Edward Island, and grew up in Charlottetown. He joined the ...
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Angèle Arsenault
Angèle Arsenault, (October 1, 1943 – February 25, 2014) was a Canadian- Acadian singer, songwriter and media host.
Early life
Arsenault was born to Acadian parents Arthur and Joséphine in Abrams Village, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1 ...
Carolyn Bertram
Carolyn Bertram (born 21 April 1976) is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral districts of Crapaud-Hazel Grove and Rustico-Emerald in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2003 to 2015. She was a member of the Lib ...
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Paula Biggar
Paula Jean Biggar (born 9 May 1955) is a Canadian politician.
She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Tyne Valley-Linkletter and is a member ...
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Lorne Bonnell
Mark Lorne Bonnell (January 4, 1923 – October 9, 2006) was a Canadian physician, provincial politician and senator.
Born in Hopefield, Prince Edward Island, the son of Lottie and Harry Bonnell, he received his Doctor of Medicine from Dalh ...
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Billy Bridges
Billy Bridges (born 22 March 1984) is a Canadian ice sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball player. Born in Summerside, he has spina bifida. On July 1, 2011, Bridges married former Olympic women's ice hockey player Sami Jo Small. He competed at ...
, Olympic para-athlete
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Betty Jean Brown
Betty Jean Brown (born October 31, 1937) is a registered nurse and former political figure in Prince Edward Island. She represented 3rd Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1986 to 1993 as a Prince Edward Island Liberal ...
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Catherine Callbeck
Catherine Sophia Callbeck (born July 25, 1939) is a Canadian retired politician and the current and ninth Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island.
She was the 28th premier of Prince Edward Island from 1993 to 1996, the third fema ...
George Coles George Coles may refer to:
* George Coles (Cambridge University cricketer) (1798–1865), English amateur cricketer
* George Coles (politician) (1810–1875), Canadian politician; first Premier of Prince Edward Island
* George Coles (Kent cricket ...
Josh Currie
Josh Currie (born October 29, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward currently playing under contract with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Peng ...
, hockey player
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Tanya Davis
Tanya Davis is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her style is marked primarily by spoken word poetry set to music.
Background
Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, she moved to Ottawa for a time after h ...
, musician and poet
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Noah Dobson
Noah Dobson (born January 7, 2000) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 12th overall by the Islanders in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
Playing career
Dobson ...
Mike Duffy
Michael Dennis Duffy (born May 27, 1946) is a former Canadian senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house in 2008, he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel. In turning 75 on May 27, 2021, ...
, journalist and politician
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Gordie Dwyer
Gordon Rick Dwyer (born January 25, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played five seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens. He last served as ...
California state legislature
The California State Legislature is a bicameral state legislature consisting of a lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members; and an upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members. Both houses of the Legisla ...
Grant Macdonald
Grant Macdonald is a silversmith and goldsmith company based in London.
History
Founded in 1969 by Grant Macdonald, Grant Macdonald began as a silversmith workshop and became a limited company in 1977. By the early 1980s Grant Macdonald produ ...
Millie Gamble
Millie Gamble (1887–1986) was an amateur photographer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her photographs from 1905 to 1920 record life in the Tyron area.
Biography
Gamble was born in Cascumpec, Prince Edward Island on January 17, 1887. She ...
Dylan Mohan Gray
Dylan Mohan Gray is an Indian and Canadian filmmaker. His documentary feature film '' Fire in the Blood'',http://fireintheblood.com premiered in competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and went on to enjoy the longest theatrical run of ...
, filmmaker/documentarian
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Vern Handrahan
James Vernon Handrahan (November 27, 1936 – November 2, 2016) was a Canadian professional baseball pitcher who played for the Kansas City Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1964 and 1966. He is noted for being one of only three major- ...
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Francis Longworth Haszard
Francis Longworth Haszard (November 20, 1849 – July 25, 1938) was a Prince Edward Island politician and jurist, the tenth premier of Prince Edward Island. Haszard's family had been United Empire Loyalists moving to PEI from the United States af ...
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Wally Hennessey
Walter J. "Wally" Hennessey (born October 4, 1956) is a Hall of Fame harness racing driver. He was inducted into the Prince Edward Island Sports Hall of Fame in 2006, the United States Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Canadian Horse Racin ...
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Harness racing
Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, or spider, or chariot occupied by a driver. In Europe, and less frequently in Australi ...
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Libbe Hubley
Elizabeth M. "Libbe" Hubley (born September 8, 1942) is a Canadian politician who sat in the Senate of Canada representing Prince Edward Island from 2001 until her retirement in 2017.
In 1989 she was elected to Prince Edward Island's legislati ...
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Hangman Hughes
Mike Hughes (born November 17, 1974) is a Canadian professional wrestling, professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Hangman Hughes. Hughes has competed on the North American independent promotions throughout the late 1990s and early 2 ...
, wrestler
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Ross Johnston
Ross Johnston (born February 18, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the New York Islanders.
Playing career
The undrafted Johnston played junior ...
Forbes Kennedy
Forbes Taylor Kennedy (born August 18, 1935) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played 603 games National Hockey League (NHL) with five teams between 1956 and 1969, recording 70 goals and 108 assists for 178 points and 888 p ...
, former ice hockey player
* Michael Kennedy, film and television director
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Joey Kitson
Joey Kitson (born ) is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead singer of the Celtic rock band Rawlins Cross. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Kitson is also a stage performer, with notable performances in the Charlottetown Festiva ...
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* David Laird, framer of the Indian Act and first resident Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories
* Daniel Ledwell, musician
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Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur (born 27 June 1976) is a Canadian television and netcasting personality, bestselling author of two books, and keynote speaker. MacArthur (aka Amber Mac) is the former co-host of BNN's ''App Central'' and ''Bloomberg Brink'', ...
, broadcasting personality and author
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Zack MacEwen
Zack MacEwen (born July 8, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks and the Philadelphia Flyers.
Career
Junior
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Tara MacLean
Tara Margaret Charity MacLean (born October 25, 1973) is a Canadian musician, singer and composer.
Her hit songs as a solo artist include "Evidence", " If I Fall", and a cover of the Christmas song " Light of the Stable". She was a member of At ...
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Catherine MacLellan
Catherine MacLellan is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, based in Prince Edward Island.
Early life
The daughter of Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan, MacLellan was born in Burlington, Ontario but raised in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
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John Alexander Mathieson
John Alexander Mathieson (May 19, 1863 – January 7, 1947) was a Prince Edward Island politician and jurist, the 12th premier.
Mathieson was born in Harrington and was a graduate of Prince of Wales College. He was a schoolmaster and lawyer be ...
, educator, politician, jurist
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David MacEachern
David "Eli" MacEachern (born November 4, 1967) was a two-sport athlete from Canada. He was a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he and Pierre Lueders won the gold medal in the two-man event (shared ...
Heather Moyse
Heather Moyse (born July 23, 1978) is a Canadian athlete and two-time Olympic gold medalist, representing Canada in international competition as a bobsledder, rugby union player, and track cyclist and competing at the Canadian intercollegiate le ...
Harness racing
Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, or spider, or chariot occupied by a driver. In Europe, and less frequently in Australi ...
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Steve Ott
''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen
Notable people with the name include:
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* Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people
* Steve Adams (disambiguation), several people
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Lemuel Cambridge Owen
Lemuel Cambridge Owen (November 1, 1822 – November 26, 1912) was a Prince Edward Island shipbuilder, banker, merchant and politician, the second premier of Prince Edward Island.
He was born in Charlottetown to Thomas Owen, who was Postmaster G ...
James Colledge Pope
James Colledge Pope, (June 11, 1826 – May 8, 1885) was a land proprietor and politician on Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. He served as premier of the colony from 1865 to 1867, and from 1870 to 1873. He was premier of PEI in 1873 when ...
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William Henry Pope William, Willie, Will or Bill Pope may refer to:
* William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe (1573–1631)
* William Pope (naturalist) (1811–1903), English-born naturalist and painter
* William Burt Pope (1822–1903), English Christian theologian
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Claire Rankin
Claire Rankin is a Canadian actress. She was raised in Prince Edward Island.
Career
In the 1990s, Rankin performed in Shakespeare's plays ''Love's Labour's Lost'', ''Romeo and Juliet'' and '' The Tempest''.
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Brad Richards
Bradley Glen Richards (born May 2, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. Richards was drafted in the third round, 64th overall, by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and played for the Lightning, New York Ra ...
Whitney Rose
Whitney Rose (born May 9, 1986) is a Canadian-American country musician from Prince Edward Island, Canada. She has released four studio albums through Cameron House Records and Six Shooter Records. Her self-titled debut album ''Whitney Rose'' was ...
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Jacob Gould Schurman
Jacob Gould Schurman (May 2, 1854 – August 12, 1942) was a Canadian-born American educator and diplomat, who served as President of Cornell University and United States Ambassador to Germany.
Early life
Schurman was born at Freetown, Prince Ed ...
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Gail Shea
Gail A. Shea (born April 6, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Egmont from 2008 to 2015. She was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007, representing the ...
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* Michael Smith, chef and television host
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Kent Stetson
Kent Stetson, (born July 5, 1948) is a Canadian playwright and novelist.
Stetson is best known for the plays ''Warm Wind in China'' (1988), one of the first and most prominent AIDS-themed plays produced in Canada; ''As I Am'' (1986), a noted ...
Jonathan Torrens
Jonathan Ormond Torrens (born October 2, 1972) is a Canadian actor and television personality best known for his co-hosting of '' Street Cents'', his talk show ''Jonovision'', and his role as "J-Roc" in the popular Canadian mockumentary ''Trailer ...
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Wes Trainor
Thomas Weston "Bucko" Trainor (September 11, 1922 – November 21, 1991) was a Canadian ice hockey player. He played 17 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers during the 1948–49 season. The rest of his career, which last ...
Alexander Bannerman Warburton
Alexander Bannerman Warburton (April 5, 1852 – January 14, 1929) was a politician, jurist and author, who served as the seventh premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Alexander was born in Summerside, the son of James Warburton, who was ...
, former premier
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Nathan Wiley
Nathan Wiley (born ) is a musician and singer from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, whose music blends modern rock and blues.
History
Wiley started out as a guitarist in a handful of local independent projects, including Electric Deadhe ...
, musician
* George Wood, professional baseball player
John Yeo
John Yeo (29 June 1837 – 14 December 1924) was a Canadian farmer, ship builder and parliamentarian.
Yeo was born in Port Hill, Prince Edward Island, the son of James Yeo and Damaris Sargent, and educated in England.Johnny Young, politician
* Ross Young, politician
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