Three small oak trees representing the three counties of the province (Prince, Queens and Kings) are shown under the protection of a great oak tree which originally represented Britain. The symbolism takes up the provincial motto, Parva sub ingenti (the small under the protection of the great).
The island's namesake is PrinceEdward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820), the father of Queen Victoria.
PrinceEdwardIsland is the first province in Canada to elect a Premier of non-European descent (Joseph Atallah Ghiz) in 1986.
PrinceEdwardIsland has a high level of political representation, with 4 Members of Parliament, 4 Senators, 27 Members of the Legislative Assembly, 2 cities, 7 towns and 60 incorporated rural communities (having over 500 municipal councillors and mayors) to give a total of 566 elected officials for a population of 138,307 (as of 2006).
PrinceEdwardIsland (simply PEI or P.E.I. French, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Scottish Gaelic, Eilean a’ Phrionns or Eilean Eòin) is a Canadian province situated in the Maritimes.
Known as the "Garden Province", the island is located in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, east of New Brunswick and north of Nova Scotia from which it is separated by the Northumberland Strait.
PrinceEdwardIsland is home to one provincial university, the University of PrinceEdwardIsland, located in Charlottetown.
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