Summerside

Summerside is the second-largest city on Prince Edward Island. The Summerside area was at one time home to the world's largest concentration of Tame Silver Fox farms. This is highlighted at the International Fox Museum.

Understand
This article covers a large rural area comprising most of western PEI, centred on Summerside (pop 14,750) as the second-largest community on the island.

Summerside was host to a Royal Canadian Air Force base from 1942-1991; the land is now an industrial park and the airfield used only for general aviation.

By car

 * From the Trans-Canada Highway, take PEI Route 1A (near Borden-Carleton) for north-northwest to Route 11 and Summerside.
 * From Charlottetown, Summerside is west on Route 2.

By bus

 * Operates a bus route between Summerside and Borden. Travel time to Summerside from Borden is 30 minutes.
 * Travel to Summerside from the following destinations involving same day transfers is as follows:
 * From Amherst and Charlottetown with a transfer in Borden.
 * From Moncton and Halifax, with a transfers in Amherst and Borden.
 * From Bathurst, Campbellton, Edmundston, Fredericton, Miramichi, and Saint John with transfers in Moncton, Amherst, and Borden
 * From Antigonish, North Sydney, Sydney with transfers in Amherst, and Borden

See

 * The city has redeveloped several waterfront industrial sites, abandoned by the railway and marine terminal during the 1990s, into new parkland. A major reconstruction of the west end seawall has resulted in a new waterfront boardwalk for residents and visitors.
 * The former post office on Summer Street was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1983. The former railway station, designed by architect Charles Benjamin Chappell and built in 1927, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007.
 * The city has redeveloped several waterfront industrial sites, abandoned by the railway and marine terminal during the 1990s, into new parkland. A major reconstruction of the west end seawall has resulted in a new waterfront boardwalk for residents and visitors.
 * The former post office on Summer Street was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1983. The former railway station, designed by architect Charles Benjamin Chappell and built in 1927, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007.
 * The city has redeveloped several waterfront industrial sites, abandoned by the railway and marine terminal during the 1990s, into new parkland. A major reconstruction of the west end seawall has resulted in a new waterfront boardwalk for residents and visitors.
 * The former post office on Summer Street was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1983. The former railway station, designed by architect Charles Benjamin Chappell and built in 1927, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007.

Do

 * The Summerside Raceway is a standardbred harness racing track which is believed to be the oldest operating racing track in Canada, having opened in 1886.
 * Credit Union Place, the largest indoor sports facility in the province, has a large hockey arena seating 4000, a bowling alley, a 25-metre swimming pool and other fitness facilities.

Miscouche
An Acadian village west of Summerside on Route 2 or 11.



O'Leary
About northwest on Route 2, in the westernmost part of the province.



Wellington
About west on Route 2.



Go next

 * Cavendish
 * Charlottetown