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PO Box 405
Kensington,
Prince Edward Island
C0B 1M0
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Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Green Gables Shore
Description From Owner:
- Derived from Micmac Mak paak, 'big bay', Guérard 1631 Marpet; Jumeau 1685 R. S. Philippe; Bellin 1744 Magpec.
- Named by Samuel Holland 1765 Richmond Bay, a name commonly used in the 1800s and still used for the western side of the bay. Holland also shows Bay of Malpeck as a secondary name.
- Curtis 1775 Malpeck bay, Bayfield 1851 and Meacham 1880 have only Richmond Bay.
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Oysters Made Great Fertilizer
Gourmands are bound to groan when they learn the world's finest oysters used to be used as fertilizer on PEI because they and the mud in which they lived was rich in lime which helped produce bumper crops.
The Island government banned the practice in 1832.
At the Paris Exhibition in 1900, the PEI Malpeque oyster was judged to be the tastiest in the world. The demand that judgement created hasn't lessened since.
Today there are a thousand Islanders engaged in harvesting Crassotrea virginica, the oyster, 3,000 metric tons of which are collected from Island waters each year.
Oysters bring in $7.4 million a year and in the last decade (2000-'10) their value has risen 245%.
With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011
The Blue Mussel is PEI's most important aquaculture species and the industry has grown from 9.2 million pounds in 1992 to more than 45 million pounds today (2011).
PEI supplies about 80% of North America's Mytilus edulis market. Most of the mussels are now grown on farms and never touch the ocean floor so they contain no grit, are more plump and tender with thinner shells and a sweeter taste.
About 150 growers and eight processing companies provide about 700 full-time jobs and produce more than $100 million in sales.
With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011
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