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Wood Islands Provincial Park is a provincial park in Prince Edward Island, Canada, situated immediately south of Wood Islands and 55 km (34 mi) from Charlottetown, the provincial capital. The park has a surface of 0.1 km 2 (0.039 sq mi).
Prince Edward Island National Park (French: Parc national de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a National Park of Canada located in the province of Prince Edward Island.Situated along the island's north shore, fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the park measures approximately 60 km (37 mi) in length and ranges from several hundred metres to several kilometres in width.
Buffaloland Provincial Park is a provincial park in Prince Edward Island, Canada. [1] It is home to a bison sanctuary. In 1973, the province of Alberta gifted the province of Prince Edward Island a herd of 15 bison. [2] The bison have served as a tourist attraction for Prince Edward Island since then.
A 13-hectare (32-acre) remnant of the 200-hectare (490-acre) estate of Robert Bruce Stewart, a nineteenth-century landowner; illustrative of the land tenure system that dominated Prince Edward Island until the passage of the Land Purchase Act of 1875 Tryon United Church [45] [46] 1881 (completed) 1990 Tryon
Ontario Parks and protected areas statistics Type Number Area % land area Hectares Acres Provincial parks 341 8,278,063 20,455,540 7.69% Conservation reserves
Prince Edward Island: Prince Edward Island: 1937 27 km 2 (10 sq mi) - Maritime plain Sensitive sand beaches and dunes on the island's north shore provide nesting habitat for the endangered piping plover and are designated an Important Bird Area.
Chelton Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in Prince Edward Island, Canada. [1] Located on the once farm of Louis Pearson of the aforementioned province, Chelton Beach is the chief tourism center of the community of Chelton. The surrounding area is heavily populated with cottages of which most, if not all, are for seasonal use only.
The Ontario Parks system began in 1893 with the creation of Algonquin Park, originally designed to protect loggers' interests from settlement. The management and creation of provincial parks came under the Department of Lands and Forests in 1954 and led to a period of accelerated park creation: a ninefold increase in the number of parks over the next six years.