PEI – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:55:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg PEI – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Missing the Island: An Exhibition of Maps without PEI https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/06/missing-the-island-an-exhibition-of-maps-without-pei/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:55:30 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785741 More]]> Prince Edward Island is to maps of Canada what New Zealand is to world maps: it’s left off them an awful lot, and the residents are sore about it. Now, CBC News reports that there’s an exhibition about it: Missing the Island, “[a] light-hearted look at a small selection of maps and graphics that have omitted P.E.I.,” runs until October 7 at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. [WMS]

Previously: The Omitted Island; ‘Potato Drop’.

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The CBC comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes has a sketch on the matter of Prince Edward Island being left off maps of Canada.

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