The first people to live on the Island were the Micmac. They moved from place
to place living in huts of skin and bark. In the winter they hunted deer, in the
summer they fished.
Jacques Cartier discovered the island in 1534, and in 1719 a French colony was
formed. The English eventually took over the island and drove the French farmers
out.
P.E.I. was named for Queen Victoria's father, and became the seventh Canadian
Province in 1873.
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