Time in Prince Edward Island (Canada)

What is the Time in Prince Edward Island (Canada)

The analog clock above is running the current local time in Prince Edward Island (Canada). The province of Prince Edward Island also follows DST or Daylight Saving Time. The analog clock is actually showing you the DST in force now. The real zone time in Prince Edward Island is UTC-4:00 hours. But when the DST was enforced in March, the time was advanced on the clock by one hour to UTC-3:00 hours. In November, DST will go out and the clocks will be set back by one hour to its original zone time of UTC-4:00 hours. Once again this procedure will be repeated in March and November next year.
 

Land Water Areas at this time in Prince Edward Island

At this time Prince Edward Island is ranked 13th in its area, in the entire Canada. Prince Edward Island has a total land area of 5,660 square kilometers. Almost the entire area happens to be land only and there is no water covered areas in Prince Edward Island at all. At this time the area of Prince Edward Island is just about 0.1% of the land in the entire Canada.
 

Population at this Time in Prince Edward Island

At this time in Prince Edward Island, there are about 146,933 people estimated to be living. The census in 2011 came up with a figure of just 140,204 people in Prince Edward Island at that time. The population desnsity in Prince Edward Island in 2011 was estimated to be 24.77 people per square kilometer. It is a small island with small population. To get an idea of the population growth in Prince Edward Island, the Census of 1851 accounted the population at 62,678. This became 103,259 in 1901.
 

Although one would expect an increase in the population, the next 50 years actually saw a reduction of pupulation in Prince Edward Island. In 1951 the population reduced to 98,429 which is about 5000 lower than the population 50 years ago. The population in Prince Edward Island further reduced to 88,038 by 1931 and only thereafter the population started to increase again. In 2001 the population bounced back to 135,294. and it is estimated that by 2016 it will be about 147,000 people in Prince Edward Island. Even though, the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island is very small in size, the population density of the island is the highest in the entire Canada.
 

Prince Edward Island Capital

The Capital of Prince Edward Island at this time is Charlottetown. The capital city of Charlottetown also happens to be the largest city as well as the largest metro in Prince Edward Island.
 

Languages at this time in Prince Edward Island

At this time in Prince Edward Island of Canada 93.8% (125,265) people speak English as their mother tongue. French is spoken by a mere 4% people. Rest of the languages are spoken by less than a 1000  people are Dutch, German, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hungarian, Mi'kmaq, Japanese, Polish and Korean. This data was obtained during the 2006 census in Prince Edward Island.
 

Climate at this time in Prince Edward Island

At this time in Prince Edward Island the climate is considerted to be fairly moderate which is influenced very strongly by the surrounding seas, because of the warm waters flowing from the Gulf of St Lawrence. The weather is characterised by changeable weather through out the entire year. The weather is most variable even day to day weather in the entire Canada. A certain type of weather will hardly last long and changes quickly. The daytime temperatures averages at about 23 deg C or 73 deg F in July to August, but can exceed 30 deg C at times.
 

The mercury dips to minus 3.3 deg C or 26 deg F by day in the Winter months of January and February. The average yearly rainfall in the Prince Edward Island at this time is roughly 85 cm and and an average snowfall of 28 cm is very normal. The winters are moderately cold and lasts long but are milder in the inland locations. The climate is considered as very continental rather than oceanic because the Gulf of St Lawrence just freezes in winter and thus not much scope of moderatoin exists. This gives rise to many storms and blizzards in the winter months at this time in Prince Edward Island. Autumn season is very pleasant as the Gulf waters moderate the temperatures and the onset of frost even though some storms can be expected.
 

Tourism at this time in Prince Edward Island

At this time in Prince Edward Island tourism is becoming quite popular and is one of the strong points of its economy. The Prince Edward Island lush landscape and its culture inspires the land from the Victorian Era which is highly enjoyable to tourists throughout the year. Unlike other provinces, Prince Edward Island offers the tourists a lot of long beaches, various golf courses, eco tourism adventures, touring the country side and most of all they can enjoy the cultural evens in the local communities all around the island giving an old world flavour making the tourists very relaxed and stress busting experience. The beaches are long and offers good walk which gives a uniqueness to the tourist because the sand grains make a scrubbing noise as the tourists walk on it, because the sand grains are made of white silica which rub against each other to produce this sound. The sound gives the sand in Prince Edward Island a name "Singing Sands".
 

Government at this time in Prince Edward Island

At this time in Prince Edward Island, the government is a parliamentary type within the construct of constitutional monarchy. The monarchy at this time in Prince Edward Island province of Canada is the foundation of the executive legislative as well the judicial branches of the government. Queen Elizabeth II is still the sovereign who incidentally also happens to be the head of the state of fifteen other Commonwealth Countries, all the nine provinces of Canada and the Canadian federal realm. The queen however resides in the United Kingdom.
 

At this time in Prince Edward Island, the Lieutenent Governor carries out all the royal duties in the island being the Queen's representative. However, to ensure the stability of the elected government, the Lieutenant Governor will appoint the current leader of the political party as the Premier, who can obtain the confidence of a plurality in the Legislative Assembly. The Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition will be the leader of the party with the second most seats who will become an adversarial parliamentary system created to keep the government in check. There are 27 members in the Legislative Assembly at this time in Prince Edward Island government. Elections are held every four years in the month of October as a standard practice.
 

Why Named Prince Edward Island?

The island was named after Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767 to 1820) who was the fourth son of King Geroge III and the father of Queen Victoria. Prince Edward was also called the "Father of the Canadian crown"Although known as Prince Edward Island at this time, the island was also called the "Garden of the Gulf" because of its pastoral scenery and lush green agricultural lands through out the province. Prince Edward Island is also known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" or the Cradle of Confederation" because of reference to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864. In 1873 Prince Edward Island became the seventh province of Canada.