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There's more recent census data. I can't make sense of how to make it nice like they have there but if someone could update that'd be nice! There have been changing demographics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dodobood (talkcontribs) 19:33, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

You can see in the link here that the 2016 census data will start to be released on February 8, 2017. I'm not sure what it is that you have seen? Air.light (talk) 19:52, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

This article disagrees with itself concerning the Province of Prince Edward Island![edit]

This article disagrees with itself concerning the Province of Prince Edward Island!
In one place it says the 7th province of Canada, and in another place it says the 8th.
Naming some of the definitely earlier ones, we have Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba (5th).
Going in the opposite direction in order, the newest ones are Newfoundland & Labrador (10th), Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia (1871). Canada was once a discontiguous country, just like the U.S.A., with British Columbia, California (1850), Oregon (1859), and Nevada (1864) separated from the rest - until Saskatchewan and Alberta were admitted in 1905.
Thus, Prince Edward Island is the only province left over, joining the Confederation in 1873, and apparently in 6th or 7th place. (The three youngest provinces are definitely "Newfoundland & Labrador", Alberta, and Saskatchewan, and so PEI definitely cannot be the 8th.)
I was born in Tennessee, most definitely the 16th State of the U.S.A. in 1796, no question about it. Tennessee was preceded by Vermont (1791) & Kentucky (1792) and followed by Ohio (1805) and Louisiana (1812). 47.215.188.197 (talk) 04:51, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Probably a definition question[edit]

Consider the sentence "It is the only subnational jurisdiction of North America outside the Caribbean to have no mainland territory, and the only such jurisdiction to have no land boundary."

This probably hinges of what "subnational jurisdiction of North America" means. What about [Saint Pierre and Miquelon]? It must also be restricted to first level (state, province, or similar) and not smaller subdivisions (such as counties, parishes or the like) or their would likely be many. Ferritecore (talk) 01:47, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

  • My guess is that the person who wrote "subnational" meant "at the level directly below national" and not "at all levels below national", though I agree that the current wording can be construed different ways. This is one of those "so fix it" moments. Do you think you can improve the article? Do you think you can phrase this better? Go ahead and give it a try! KDS4444 (talk) 16:32, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

"adventurous Victorian families" quote[edit]

User Curly Turkey tagged this text as needing attribution:

During the 19th century the colony of Prince Edward Island began to attract "adventurous Victorian families looking for elegance on the sea. Prince Edward Island became a fashionable retreat in the nineteenth century for British nobility".

The source provided for the quote was the old Collections Canada website which was shut down in 2007 (thanks Harper), but the archived version linked was broken and just redirected to the old landing page. I did find an older archive here, but it's not useful, the quote is not in that source, so I've removed it from the article. It should be noted that this quote cannot be attributed to Samuel Holland as he died in 1801.

The archived source provides a citation to a book, Canada's Smallest Province: A History of PEI, published in 1973/1991 by Francis W.P. Bolger. I don't see the text available online but the Confed Centre Library has 14 copies. I'll go down there some time in the next couple weeks and see if I can find the quote, or anything else useful. In the meantime please leave this out of the article as it may be a copyright violation. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Puffery.[edit]

PEI is the only subnational jurisdiction of North America outside the Caribbean to have no mainland territory, and the only such jurisdiction to have no land boundary, as the U.S. state of Hawaii is a part of Oceania, not North America." This bit of puffery consists of pointless trivia, constrained by arbitrary limitations and irrelevant side-facts. It's really not noteworthy that someone can come up with aimless puffery to promote a province and some ridiculous minutiae. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B032:6E36:AD92:2EF:F3F7:FA75 (talk) 23:04, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Removed as unsourced trivia. Vsmith (talk) 23:13, 29 August 2018 (UTC)