{"id":1785741,"date":"2018-06-04T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785741"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:55:30","slug":"missing-the-island-an-exhibition-of-maps-without-pei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/06\/missing-the-island-an-exhibition-of-maps-without-pei\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing the Island: An Exhibition of Maps without PEI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Edward Island is to maps of Canada what New Zealand is to world maps<\/a>: it’s left off them an awful lot, and the residents are sore about it. Now, CBC News reports<\/a> that there’s an exhibition about it: Missing the Island<\/a><\/em>, “[a] light-hearted look at a small selection of maps and graphics that have omitted P.E.I.,” runs until October 7 at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: The Omitted Island<\/a>; ‘Potato Drop’<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince Edward Island is to maps of Canada what New Zealand is to world maps: it’s left off them an awful lot, and the residents are sore about it. Now, CBC News reports that there’s… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[131,50,785],"class_list":["post-1785741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","tag-canada","tag-exhibitions","tag-pei","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4014,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/the-omitted-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785741,"position":0},"title":"The Omitted Island","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Canada is apparently suffering from an outbreak of maps that omit Prince Edward Island, and islanders are upset about it: culprits include a map at Vancouver's airport, and a t-shirt sold by Hudson's Bay Company. To be sure, in neither case are the maps meant for navigation, but\u00a0this is\u00a0a country\u00a0where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Map Errors"","block_context":{"text":"Map Errors","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/map-errors\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4098,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/potato-drop\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785741,"position":1},"title":"‘Potato Drop’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2017","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/22Minutes\/videos\/10154460474038339\/ The CBC comedy show\u00a0This Hour Has 22 Minutes has a sketch on the matter of Prince Edward Island being\u00a0left off maps of Canada.","rel":"","context":"In "Map Errors"","block_context":{"text":"Map Errors","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/map-errors\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1791987,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/the-indigenous-peoples-atlas-of-canadas-giant-floor-map-comes-to-pei\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785741,"position":2},"title":"The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada’s Giant Floor Map Comes to PEI","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 November 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Remember the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada\u2019s giant floor map? 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