Churchill, Prince Edward Island

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Churchill is a community in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The community was named for Winston Churchill. [1] It is located in the township of Lot 65, Queens County immediately west of New Haven.

Canada Country in North America

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with over 80 percent of its inhabitants concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. Canada's climate varies widely across its vast area, ranging from arctic weather in the north, to hot summers in the southern regions, with four distinct seasons.

Prince Edward Island Province of Canada

Prince Edward Island is a province of Canada consisting of the Atlantic island of the same name along with several much smaller islands nearby. PEI is one of the three Maritime Provinces. It is the smallest province of Canada in both land area and population, but it is the most densely populated. Part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, it became a British colony in the 1700s and was federated into Canada as a province in 1873. Its capital is Charlottetown. According to the 2016 census, the province of PEI has 142,907 residents.

Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was instead a member of the Liberal Party.

Churchill is located in the Bonshaw Hills, a high land in the centre of the province. Strathgartney Hill separates the community from Bonshaw to the west.

Bonshaw is a municipality that holds community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located near the province's south shore on the Northumberland Strait.

Transmitters

The Strathgartney Hill is the location of several radio and television broadcasters, which serve the portion of central Prince Edward Island that includes Charlottetown and Summerside.

Broadcasting distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio or visual mass communications medium

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum, in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers. Before this, all forms of electronic communication were one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term broadcasting evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about. It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials or by telegraph. Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as early as 1898.

Charlottetown Provincial capital city in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom, Charlottetown was originally an unincorporated town that incorporated as a city in 1855.

Summerside, Prince Edward Island City in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Summerside is a Canadian city in Prince County, Prince Edward Island. It is the second largest city in the province and the primary service centre for the western part of the island.

These are mounted on the province's largest transmitting tower, which is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and include:

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Public television
Public radio
CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent of Canadians and overseas through Radio Canada International, over the Internet, and through mobile apps.

CBCT-FM radio station (96.1 FM) licensed to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

CBCT-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One affiliate for all of Prince Edward Island, with studios in Charlottetown, broadcasting at 96.1 MHz (FM).

CBH-FM

CBH-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting in Halifax, Nova Scotia at 102.7 MHz. The station was launched on June 1, 1976 and is the CBC Music outlet for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. CBH-FM's studios are located on 7067 Chebucto Road in Halifax, while its transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive in Clayton Park.

Commercial radio (as of 2006)

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Queens County, Prince Edward Island Place

Queens County is a county in the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is the largest county in the province by population with 82,017 (2016), land area, and highest average income. Charlottetown is the county seat of Queens County, and is the largest city and the capital of Prince Edward Island.

CBAT-DT

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CBCT-DT

CBCT-DT is a CBC Television owned-and-operated television station located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, broadcasting on terrestrial channel 13 and local cable channel 11. Owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is the only full-fledged television station based in Prince Edward Island. All other television service in the province is provided by repeaters of stations from New Brunswick.

Cavendish, Prince Edward Island unincorporated rural area in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Cavendish is an unincorporated rural community in the township of Lot 23, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Route 1 is a 120-kilometre (75 mi) long provincial highway that serves as the Prince Edward Island section of the Trans-Canada Highway. Route 1 traverses the southern shores of Prince Edward Island, from the Confederation Bridge in Borden-Carleton to the Wood Islands ferry dock. It is an uncontrolled access 2-lane highway with a maximum speed limit of 90 km/h (55 mph), except within some towns and the city of Charlottetown.

Strathgartney Provincial Park

Strathgartney Provincial Park is a provincial park in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Bonshaw Provincial Park

Bonshaw Provincial Park is a provincial park in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Belmont is a Canadian rural farming community located in the larger community of Lot 16 in central Prince County, Prince Edward Island. Lot 16 is actually three communities: Belmont, Central, and Southwest Lot 16, and is one of the last communities on Prince Edward Island to continue using their lot designation from the original Island survey by Samuel Holland in the 18th century.

CKQK-FM

CKQK-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 105.5 FM in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island with a Top 40 format branded on-air as Hot 105.5. The station is owned by Stingray Digital which also owns sister station CHTN-FM. CKQK's studios & offices are located at 176 Great George street in the downtown Charlottetown area.

CFCY-FM radio station

CFCY-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 95.1 FM in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island with a country music format branded on-air as 95.1 CFCY. The station is owned & operated by the Maritime Broadcasting System.

CJRW-FM

CJRW-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 102.1 FM in Summerside, Prince Edward Island owned & operated by the Maritime Broadcasting System. The station plays an adult contemporary format branded on-air as Spud 102 FM. CJRW-FM is the only MBS radio station in Prince Edward Island that is not being licensed to Charlottetown.

Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island human settlement in Canada

Tyne Valley is a municipality that holds community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located in Prince County. Incorporated in 1966, the community is located in the township of Lot 13 at the intersection of Routes 12 and 167.

Elmira, Prince Edward Island Place in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Elmira is a community in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, located in Lot 47 of Kings County, northeast of Souris.

St. Edward is a community in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, located in Lot 2 of Prince County, northwest of Alberton.

Kingston, Prince Edward Island community in Prince Edward Island

Kingston is a municipality that holds community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located within Queens County to the west of Charlottetown. The community is mainly farms with a small residential area around Willys Lane.

Tryon, Prince Edward Island Place in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Tryon is an unincorporated area in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Situated on Route 1 and Route 10, it lies within the township of Lot 28 which in 2006 had a population of 880 people. Tryon is not far from Crapaud, Prince Edward Island.

References

  1. "Village is named after Churchill". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Jan 21, 1965. p. 7. Retrieved 26 May 2015.

Coordinates: 46°13′0.4″N63°20′7.9″W / 46.216778°N 63.335528°W / 46.216778; -63.335528

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