Events in Charlottetown:
The city has many different events throughout the year, some are cultural and some are just for the entertainment. Some of the most favourite ones are the Charlottetown festival, P.E.I. Fall Flavors, The New Festival of Wine, and Old Home Week-P.E.I. Family Fun Fair. The Charlottetown festival is an event that celebrates Charlottetown with the promotion of “Anne of Green Gables” with a live theatre production, activities, games, and shopping. The P.E.I. Fall Festival is an island wide food festival where chefs from food network and local chefs in the community work together to create dishes for the whole island to sample. The New Festival of Wine are the people ages 19 and older. In this festival, people get to sample wines from all over the world and while they do this try food that complement you selection. And lastly the Old Home Week-P.E.I. Family Fun Fair is when people celebrate agriculture by doing activities fun for the whole family as well as learning about life in the olden days.
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Industries:
In the city of Charlottetown they have many industries but most of them are mainly primary based jobs due to the large amount of natural landscape. In the primary industry, they mostly do fishing and agriculture. In the Secondary industry they have manufacturing and construction. In the Tertiary industry they have tourism and restaurants, anything that has to with the entertainment of people. And in quaternary, they have the university of Charlottetown and real estate appraisers. The industries that appear mostly in Charlottetown are agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, and fishing. In agriculture, they supply Canada with one third of their potatoes, which makes this province the leading suppliers and also they grow many other products but potatoes makes their most income. In tourism, many locals who are shop owners are business workers depend on tourism for their income. In manufacturing, due to the strict laws put up by the government and the lack of raw materials (minerals), they mainly process food. And in fishing, many residents of the fishing community rely on the shellfish harvest for their income and their daily food. But the fishing stocks have decreased substantially, because of this, Prince Edward Island has an unemployed rate of 10% which makes it the second highest unemployment rate province in Canada.