Borden-Carleton-Summerside IPE 1/14
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- Distance
- 29.24 mi
- Elevation gain
- 135 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 131 ft
- Max elevation
- 217 ft
- TrailRank
- 64
- Min elevation
- 20 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 5 hours 57 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3927
- Uploaded
- July 27, 2016
- Recorded
- July 2016
near Borden, Illa del Príncep Eduard (Canada)
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Prince Edward Island or PEI (English: Prince Edward Island or PEI, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a 'Phrionnsa, Mi'kmaq: Epekwitk (Francis-Smith)) is the smallest of Canada's provinces in terms of area and population. In 1864, Prince Edward Island hosted the Charlottetown Conference that led to Canadian Confederation in 1867. Nevertheless, it did not become a Canadian province until 1873. In the 2011 census, one it has a population of 140,204. At 24.7 people per square kilometer, it is the most densely populated province in Canada.
Climate
The climate of Prince Edward Island is humid continental that is, there is a big temperature difference between the cold months and the hot months. During the winter, the temperature can go down to -28 ° C.
Fauna and flora
The forest covers 50% of the area but the primary forest, consisting mainly of spruce, balsam fir and red maple, occupies only 290,000 hectares. Three centuries of colonization, along with forest diseases and fires, have almost wiped out the original forest of beech, yellow birch, maple, oak and American white pine1.
Prince Edward Island has a wide variety of wildlife including beaver, muskrat, mink, red fox, squirrel, snowshoe hare, striped skunks and coyotes. The territory is also rich in marine species.
Conservation of the environment has become an important issue. The removal of hedgerows, the use of chemical fertilizers, mechanization and agricultural overproduction in general are causing significant erosion of arable land leading to the silting up of ports and watercourses1. Some reforestation activities have been carried out1.
The North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whale species, was considered a rare visitor to the St. Lawrence until 1994. Since then, there has been a dramatic increase in numbers: off Perce in 1995, a progressive increase in all regions since 19984, around Cape Breton5 since 2014 and in Prince Edward Island, 35 to 40 whales were observed in 20156.
Natural Resources, Industry and Services
The island is poor in natural resources. No significant deposits of ore have yet been discovered but there are traces of coal, uranium and vanadium1. Natural gas is present in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northeast of the Island, but is not large enough to be exploited1. Only sand and gravel are mined, but poor low quality production does not even meet provincial needs1. The forest is little exploited1.
Half of the island is very fertile land while arable land covers 90% of the area1. Until the 1950s, most farmers used horses, but the end of this practice freed up vast land previously used for fodder cultivation. From 1951 to 1996, the number of farms increased from 10,137 to 2,217 while the area under cultivation decreased by 39%. The average farm size has increased from 44 hectares to 119 hectares, while farmers' profit margins have dropped from 50% to 25% due to the increased cost of the equipment1. Governments are trying to curb the rural exodus while farms are becoming more expensive to start. Although agricultural production is declining, clearing continues. Agricultural production was valued at $ 317 million in 2000, of which $ 154 million was from potatoes1. The island has indeed a climate and a soil well adapted to this culture, and in particular for the production of seed potatoes. Three-quarters of the harvest is exported to 15 countries and the remainder is sold as is in North America or processed into frozen products such as french fries1. Tobacco, planted since 1959, is the second most important crop, despite the high cost and complexity of its production1. The province has 330 dairy farms and a herd of 16,000 cows producing 90 million liters of milk annually, 90% of which is processed into by-products, such as evaporated milk, generally for export1. 30,000 cattle are also sent to the slaughterhouse annually, although the price of meat fluctuates and production is down1. Pig farming is almost as important.
Fishing is the second primary industry on the Island. There were 6,500 fishermen and fish harvesters in 1994, working on 1,500 boats and creating 2,000 direct jobs in factories that processed fish valued at $ 139 million in 2000.1 The fishery is mostly coastal and the lobster is the most lucrative species1. Other molluscs are also caught, including scallops, oysters, clams and mussels. Oysters, whose production is concentrated in Malpeque Bay, are reputed1. Harvesting Irish moss, from which carrageenan is extracted, is an important industry west of the island1.
The manufacturing industry is mainly focused on the processing of fishery and agricultural products. This sector of the economy provided 4,800 jobs in 1997 while the value of production was valued at $ 1.1 billion in 20001. Major manufacturers include Cavendish Farms, DME International and McCain Foods. The government is trying to attract other types of industries, without any real success1. Some companies are still worthy of note include JD Irving, who operates a shipyard in Georgetown.
More and more people are working in services; governments employed 6,000 people in 19991.
Energy
Islanders are the most expensive to pay for electricity in Canada1. Summerside has a municipal distribution network while Maritime Energy distributes electricity to the rest of the island. Most of the electricity is imported from NB Power (New Brunswick) or Emera Energy Systems (Nova Scotia) via submarine cable. However, Maritime Energy has two thermal generating stations, one in Charlottetown and one in Borden-Carleton, operating at peak hours or in the event of a power outage and having an installed capacity of 104 megawatts (MW). Up to 54 MW can also be purchased from wind farms at Cape North or Eastern Kings Wind Farm.
Fuel oil is also very expensive, which encourages more and more people to heat their homes with wood. Although forests are not as exploited as in the nineteenth century, this industry creates more than 400 jobs.
Transport
Charlottetown Airport.
Main article: Transportation to Prince Edward Island.
The Confederation Bridge connects the island to the mainland. 12.9 km long, it is the longest bridge in the world to cross a stretch of frozen water in winter1. One ferry connects the island to Nova Scotia and another to the Îles de la Madeleine (Quebec).
An intercity bus service connects major cities, while Charlottetown has a public transit system, the Charlottetown Public Transit, consisting of 7 bus lines.
Charlottetown Airport offers scheduled flights to Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit and Boston. A second, smaller airport is in Summerside.
The railway was dismantled in 1989, after 114 years of existence. It has been converted into a bicycle path, the Confederation Trail, which consists of a portion of the Trans Canada Trail.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-Edouard Island)
Borden-Carleton (Officially Borden) is a community in Prince Edward Island, Canada. In the 2006 census, there was a population of 7861. At the 2011 census, the population had gone down to 7502 inhabitants.
The village was created by the merger, on April 12, 1995, of the original village of Borden (an incorporated village) and the farming community of Carleton. Borden Village opted to demote its village status to reduce its tax base with the completion of the Confederation Bridge and the closure of the Atlantic Marine ferries.
Geography
The community of Borden-Carleton is located on the edge of the Northumberland Strait, where the Confederation Bridge ends.
Demography
The village had 786 inhabitants in 2006 against 829 in 1996, a decrease of 5% in 10 years1.
Confederation Bridge Project [edit | change the code]
The project was named the Confederation Bridge and when it opened on June 1, 1997, ferry service closed after 70 years of daily service; ships were transferred to other locations or sold and wharves, terminals and other facilities were dismantled.
After the completion of the Confederation Bridge, Borden's economy dimmed as the labor influx left the village and the province and some licensed and retired ferry workers relocated. The federal government is providing a Fixed Link Adjustment Fund that has helped develop a commercial complex for tourists on the former locomotive depot, now known as the Gateway Village.
The fund also paid for the development of the village industrial park to have new manufactures and today, the majority of residents of Borden are employed in a local factory or the tertiary sector or in the tourism sector. The major employers are McCain Foods (a potato factory opened in 1992 in the northern part of Carleton), Master Packaging (subdivision of JD Irving Limited), Silliker Glass (a glass supplier and aluminum manufacturer Kawneer), an abattoir for oxen (operated by Co-op Atlantique) and Transcontinental Printing (division of Transcontinental Media).
There is a government effort to find a use for the old factory built in Amherst Head abandoned by SCI since the completion of the construction of the Confederation Bridge.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden-Carleton)
Summerside is a city in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The city is located in the West Island, on the edge of the Northumberland Strait. According to Statistics Canada, there were 14,715 people in 2006. The city is the only urban center in Charlottetown with Charlottetown. It is a medium-sized port, but it is one of the largest cities in Atlantic Canada with Halifax, Saint John, Moncton and Charlottetown. Lobsters are the main fish caught in Summerside. It is a very important commercial center on Prince Edward Island, and there is also an experimental fur farm and refinery, mainly coal from the north of the province.
It is in Summerside that La Voix acadienne is published, the only French-language newspaper in the province.
A coastal defense vessel, HMCS Summerside (MM 711), bears her name.
Economy
The largest employer in the city is the Canada Revenue Agency, which administers the Summerside Tax Center Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Slemon Park (formerly Canadian Forces Base Summerside) is home to several aerospace and transportation companies in former military buildings; Vector Atlantic Aerospace Engine Services (already Atlantic Turbines) repairs and changes gear turbine aircraft, Testori Americas manufactures interior planes and public transport vehicles and Honeywell manufactures and repairs aircraft parts.
The surrounding New Annan community is home to Cavendish Farms, Prince Edward Island's largest private sector employer. Cavendish Farms maintains two large frozen food plants in New Annan. The Borden-Carleton Perimeter Community has several major employers for residents of Summerside, including McCain Foods which has a processing center for frozen products.
Since the closing of Canadian Forces Base Summerside in 1990, the city has been aggressive in attracting new companies and has created an economic development office to encourage investment in the city.
The Summerside area already had the largest concentration of silver fox farms in the world. This is highlighted in the Silver Fox Museum3.
Education
Summerside has seven public English schools: four elementary, two middle and one high school. The Western School Board is the school board that sits in the city.
The city also has a public French school run by the French-language school board of Prince Edward Island.
Holland College, a community college in Prince Edward Island, maintains several facilities in Summerside.
• East Prince Center
• Navy Training Center
• Aerospace Center
• Atlantic Police Academy
• Center of driving force
Energy
The city of Summerside is the only place in Prince Edward Island to maintain its own power grid. After purchasing Charlottetown Light & Power in 1918, Maritime Electric consolidated power distribution on the island. The company offered to take control of the operations in Summerside, but resigned after the citizens refused several offers. The Summerside Grid has been linked to the Marine Power System since 1961.
Traditionally, most electricity is purchased from an electric utility in a neighboring province (New Brunswick), NB Power. In 2008, 76.5% of its power was acquired from NB Power. Although the Summerside Power Commission has its own diesel turbines at the generator station at Harvard Street that can operate for several days independently of the New Brunswick grid, it is only used in exceptional circumstances such as when a power outage with the New Brunswick or a power failure Maritime Electric that provides the city.
In 2007, the city signed a 20-year contract with a private wind energy company to supply about 23 percent of the electricity required from a wind farm in western PEI7.
Construction began on the wind farm in 2009 with four wind turbines, each capable of producing 3 megawatts of electricity. The wind farm became fully operational at the end of 2009 and was immediately linked to the city grid. It is the first wind farm in Canada owned and maintained by a municipality. On an average day, the wind farm produces about 25% of the electricity required by the city. As the use of electricity in the city is low and the winds are strong, the windmill has enough wind power to supply the entire city.
Medical Services
The Prince County Hospital, located in the north of the city, is the main hospital in the west of the province.
(Cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerside)
Climate
The climate of Prince Edward Island is humid continental that is, there is a big temperature difference between the cold months and the hot months. During the winter, the temperature can go down to -28 ° C.
Fauna and flora
The forest covers 50% of the area but the primary forest, consisting mainly of spruce, balsam fir and red maple, occupies only 290,000 hectares. Three centuries of colonization, along with forest diseases and fires, have almost wiped out the original forest of beech, yellow birch, maple, oak and American white pine1.
Prince Edward Island has a wide variety of wildlife including beaver, muskrat, mink, red fox, squirrel, snowshoe hare, striped skunks and coyotes. The territory is also rich in marine species.
Conservation of the environment has become an important issue. The removal of hedgerows, the use of chemical fertilizers, mechanization and agricultural overproduction in general are causing significant erosion of arable land leading to the silting up of ports and watercourses1. Some reforestation activities have been carried out1.
The North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whale species, was considered a rare visitor to the St. Lawrence until 1994. Since then, there has been a dramatic increase in numbers: off Perce in 1995, a progressive increase in all regions since 19984, around Cape Breton5 since 2014 and in Prince Edward Island, 35 to 40 whales were observed in 20156.
Natural Resources, Industry and Services
The island is poor in natural resources. No significant deposits of ore have yet been discovered but there are traces of coal, uranium and vanadium1. Natural gas is present in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northeast of the Island, but is not large enough to be exploited1. Only sand and gravel are mined, but poor low quality production does not even meet provincial needs1. The forest is little exploited1.
Half of the island is very fertile land while arable land covers 90% of the area1. Until the 1950s, most farmers used horses, but the end of this practice freed up vast land previously used for fodder cultivation. From 1951 to 1996, the number of farms increased from 10,137 to 2,217 while the area under cultivation decreased by 39%. The average farm size has increased from 44 hectares to 119 hectares, while farmers' profit margins have dropped from 50% to 25% due to the increased cost of the equipment1. Governments are trying to curb the rural exodus while farms are becoming more expensive to start. Although agricultural production is declining, clearing continues. Agricultural production was valued at $ 317 million in 2000, of which $ 154 million was from potatoes1. The island has indeed a climate and a soil well adapted to this culture, and in particular for the production of seed potatoes. Three-quarters of the harvest is exported to 15 countries and the remainder is sold as is in North America or processed into frozen products such as french fries1. Tobacco, planted since 1959, is the second most important crop, despite the high cost and complexity of its production1. The province has 330 dairy farms and a herd of 16,000 cows producing 90 million liters of milk annually, 90% of which is processed into by-products, such as evaporated milk, generally for export1. 30,000 cattle are also sent to the slaughterhouse annually, although the price of meat fluctuates and production is down1. Pig farming is almost as important.
Fishing is the second primary industry on the Island. There were 6,500 fishermen and fish harvesters in 1994, working on 1,500 boats and creating 2,000 direct jobs in factories that processed fish valued at $ 139 million in 2000.1 The fishery is mostly coastal and the lobster is the most lucrative species1. Other molluscs are also caught, including scallops, oysters, clams and mussels. Oysters, whose production is concentrated in Malpeque Bay, are reputed1. Harvesting Irish moss, from which carrageenan is extracted, is an important industry west of the island1.
The manufacturing industry is mainly focused on the processing of fishery and agricultural products. This sector of the economy provided 4,800 jobs in 1997 while the value of production was valued at $ 1.1 billion in 20001. Major manufacturers include Cavendish Farms, DME International and McCain Foods. The government is trying to attract other types of industries, without any real success1. Some companies are still worthy of note include JD Irving, who operates a shipyard in Georgetown.
More and more people are working in services; governments employed 6,000 people in 19991.
Energy
Islanders are the most expensive to pay for electricity in Canada1. Summerside has a municipal distribution network while Maritime Energy distributes electricity to the rest of the island. Most of the electricity is imported from NB Power (New Brunswick) or Emera Energy Systems (Nova Scotia) via submarine cable. However, Maritime Energy has two thermal generating stations, one in Charlottetown and one in Borden-Carleton, operating at peak hours or in the event of a power outage and having an installed capacity of 104 megawatts (MW). Up to 54 MW can also be purchased from wind farms at Cape North or Eastern Kings Wind Farm.
Fuel oil is also very expensive, which encourages more and more people to heat their homes with wood. Although forests are not as exploited as in the nineteenth century, this industry creates more than 400 jobs.
Transport
Charlottetown Airport.
Main article: Transportation to Prince Edward Island.
The Confederation Bridge connects the island to the mainland. 12.9 km long, it is the longest bridge in the world to cross a stretch of frozen water in winter1. One ferry connects the island to Nova Scotia and another to the Îles de la Madeleine (Quebec).
An intercity bus service connects major cities, while Charlottetown has a public transit system, the Charlottetown Public Transit, consisting of 7 bus lines.
Charlottetown Airport offers scheduled flights to Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit and Boston. A second, smaller airport is in Summerside.
The railway was dismantled in 1989, after 114 years of existence. It has been converted into a bicycle path, the Confederation Trail, which consists of a portion of the Trans Canada Trail.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-Edouard Island)
Borden-Carleton (Officially Borden) is a community in Prince Edward Island, Canada. In the 2006 census, there was a population of 7861. At the 2011 census, the population had gone down to 7502 inhabitants.
The village was created by the merger, on April 12, 1995, of the original village of Borden (an incorporated village) and the farming community of Carleton. Borden Village opted to demote its village status to reduce its tax base with the completion of the Confederation Bridge and the closure of the Atlantic Marine ferries.
Geography
The community of Borden-Carleton is located on the edge of the Northumberland Strait, where the Confederation Bridge ends.
Demography
The village had 786 inhabitants in 2006 against 829 in 1996, a decrease of 5% in 10 years1.
Confederation Bridge Project [edit | change the code]
The project was named the Confederation Bridge and when it opened on June 1, 1997, ferry service closed after 70 years of daily service; ships were transferred to other locations or sold and wharves, terminals and other facilities were dismantled.
After the completion of the Confederation Bridge, Borden's economy dimmed as the labor influx left the village and the province and some licensed and retired ferry workers relocated. The federal government is providing a Fixed Link Adjustment Fund that has helped develop a commercial complex for tourists on the former locomotive depot, now known as the Gateway Village.
The fund also paid for the development of the village industrial park to have new manufactures and today, the majority of residents of Borden are employed in a local factory or the tertiary sector or in the tourism sector. The major employers are McCain Foods (a potato factory opened in 1992 in the northern part of Carleton), Master Packaging (subdivision of JD Irving Limited), Silliker Glass (a glass supplier and aluminum manufacturer Kawneer), an abattoir for oxen (operated by Co-op Atlantique) and Transcontinental Printing (division of Transcontinental Media).
There is a government effort to find a use for the old factory built in Amherst Head abandoned by SCI since the completion of the construction of the Confederation Bridge.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden-Carleton)
Summerside is a city in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The city is located in the West Island, on the edge of the Northumberland Strait. According to Statistics Canada, there were 14,715 people in 2006. The city is the only urban center in Charlottetown with Charlottetown. It is a medium-sized port, but it is one of the largest cities in Atlantic Canada with Halifax, Saint John, Moncton and Charlottetown. Lobsters are the main fish caught in Summerside. It is a very important commercial center on Prince Edward Island, and there is also an experimental fur farm and refinery, mainly coal from the north of the province.
It is in Summerside that La Voix acadienne is published, the only French-language newspaper in the province.
A coastal defense vessel, HMCS Summerside (MM 711), bears her name.
Economy
The largest employer in the city is the Canada Revenue Agency, which administers the Summerside Tax Center Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Slemon Park (formerly Canadian Forces Base Summerside) is home to several aerospace and transportation companies in former military buildings; Vector Atlantic Aerospace Engine Services (already Atlantic Turbines) repairs and changes gear turbine aircraft, Testori Americas manufactures interior planes and public transport vehicles and Honeywell manufactures and repairs aircraft parts.
The surrounding New Annan community is home to Cavendish Farms, Prince Edward Island's largest private sector employer. Cavendish Farms maintains two large frozen food plants in New Annan. The Borden-Carleton Perimeter Community has several major employers for residents of Summerside, including McCain Foods which has a processing center for frozen products.
Since the closing of Canadian Forces Base Summerside in 1990, the city has been aggressive in attracting new companies and has created an economic development office to encourage investment in the city.
The Summerside area already had the largest concentration of silver fox farms in the world. This is highlighted in the Silver Fox Museum3.
Education
Summerside has seven public English schools: four elementary, two middle and one high school. The Western School Board is the school board that sits in the city.
The city also has a public French school run by the French-language school board of Prince Edward Island.
Holland College, a community college in Prince Edward Island, maintains several facilities in Summerside.
• East Prince Center
• Navy Training Center
• Aerospace Center
• Atlantic Police Academy
• Center of driving force
Energy
The city of Summerside is the only place in Prince Edward Island to maintain its own power grid. After purchasing Charlottetown Light & Power in 1918, Maritime Electric consolidated power distribution on the island. The company offered to take control of the operations in Summerside, but resigned after the citizens refused several offers. The Summerside Grid has been linked to the Marine Power System since 1961.
Traditionally, most electricity is purchased from an electric utility in a neighboring province (New Brunswick), NB Power. In 2008, 76.5% of its power was acquired from NB Power. Although the Summerside Power Commission has its own diesel turbines at the generator station at Harvard Street that can operate for several days independently of the New Brunswick grid, it is only used in exceptional circumstances such as when a power outage with the New Brunswick or a power failure Maritime Electric that provides the city.
In 2007, the city signed a 20-year contract with a private wind energy company to supply about 23 percent of the electricity required from a wind farm in western PEI7.
Construction began on the wind farm in 2009 with four wind turbines, each capable of producing 3 megawatts of electricity. The wind farm became fully operational at the end of 2009 and was immediately linked to the city grid. It is the first wind farm in Canada owned and maintained by a municipality. On an average day, the wind farm produces about 25% of the electricity required by the city. As the use of electricity in the city is low and the winds are strong, the windmill has enough wind power to supply the entire city.
Medical Services
The Prince County Hospital, located in the north of the city, is the main hospital in the west of the province.
(Cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerside)
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