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City in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Photo: Nicole Bratt from San Francisco, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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.
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Regional history and art gallery, including permanent collection of paintings by late Island artist Georgie Read Barton.
Prince Edward Island fox farming history museum on the first level of the former Summerside Armoury (1911-1992) describes the growth, decline and legacy of the rare Silver Black Fox, once farmed commercially; Gallery 33 seasonal exhibit space upstairs.
1867 heritage house with thousands of artefacts collected and used by the Wyatt family.
Le Musée acadien de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Photographs, storyboards and a 15-min film that explain the history of Acadians in PEI.
Parade and events, second week of July.
Summerside’s waterfront marketplace was designed on a fishing village theme. Its shops and artisanal studios feature souvenirs, clothing, antiques, jewellery, local art, and Celtic giftware. It has an ice cream shop, and restaurants featuring local seafood, pub fare, and barbecue.
Historical museum with a genealogical research/documentation centre retracing Acadian history after 1720; art gallery adjacent.
Interactive Potato Hall of Fame and an array of farming tools and equipment on display; canteen menu includes potato maple-butter tarts, potato fudge and even a potato hot dog.
A formerly-manned light house (built in 1875, automated in 1963) serves as an observation platform, restaurant and inn at Cedar Dunes Provincial Park.
Acadian brick church (1896) overlooking Northumberland Strait just east of Cap-Egmont.
A project of Édouard Arsenault and his daughter, Réjeanne Arsenault, three buildings constructed of glass bottles are surrounded by beautiful gardens.
Full-service casual, catering, pub menu available for lunch & dinner. Bar with extensive wine, beer & custom cocktail menu.
Dinner theatre.
Lakeview Summerside Resort
Crown & Anchor Tavern on-site, restaurant, indoor pool, sauna.
Historic B&B house; each room has A/C, ensuite bath, flatscreen IPTV, flat-rate long-distance phone.
24 rooms; housekeeping cottages and efficiency units available. Wi-fi in motel portion. CATV, A/C, phone, coffee makers and fridges in rooms; coin laundrette, pay phones, BBQs, trailer hook-ups and playground on-site. Bicycles available.
The Briarcliffe Inn is a bed and breakfast in Salutation Cove with a beautiful view overlooking the Confederation Bridge.
Artisan and craft products, farm produce, bakery and prepared foods. On Facebook.
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