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Definition: The province of Prince Edward Island is one of the ten provinces and three territories that make up Canada. Prince Edward Island is the smallest province in Canada and one of the three provinces in the Canadian Maritimes.

The province of Prince Edward Island was named after Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathern, the father of Queen Victoria.

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