Premiers of Prince Edward Island - Albert Charles Saunders, Alexander Wallace Matheson, Alexander Warburton, Alex Campbell, Angus MacLean, Arthur Peter (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Albert Charles Saunders, Alexander Wallace Matheson, Alexander Warburton, Alex Campbell, Angus MacLean, Arthur Peters, Aubin-Edmond Arsenault, Bennett Campbell, Catherine Callbeck, Donald Farquharson (politician), Francis Haszard, Frederick Peters, George Coles (politician), Herbert James Palmer, James Colledge Pope, James David Stewart, James Lee (Canadian politician), Joe Ghiz, John Alexander Mathieson, John Hamilton Gray (Prince Edward Island politician), John Holl, John Howatt Bell, John Walter Jones, Joseph Hensley, Keith Milligan, Lemuel Owen, List of premiers of Prince Edward Island, Louis Henry Davies, Neil McLeod (politician), Pat Binns, Premier of Prince Edward Island, Robert Ghiz, Robert Haythorne, Thane Campbell, Walter Lea, Walter Russell Shaw, William J. P. MacMillan, William Wilfred Sullivan. Excerpt: The Canadian province of Prince Edward Island was a British crown colony before it joined Canadian Confederation in 1873. It has had a system of responsible government since 1851, and the province kept its own legislature to deal with provincial matters after joining Confederation. Prince Edward Island has a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the Premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. The Premier is Prince Edward Island's head of government, and the Queen of Canada is its head of state and is represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island. The Premier picks a cabinet from the elected members to form the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island, and presides over that body. Members are first elected to the legislature during general elections. General elections must be conducted every five years from the date of the last election, but the Premier may ask for early dissolution of the Legislative Assembly. An election may also take place if the governing party loses the confidence of the legislature by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion. Prince Edward Island has had 44 government leaders since it became a colony in 1851. The province had 11 Premiers while a colony and 33 Premiers after Confederation, of which 18 were from the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party and 26 were from the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party. Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party Prince Edward Island Liberal Party As of November 2012, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being Alex Campbell (1966-1978, born 1933). The most recent former premier to die was Bennett Campbell (1978-1979), on September 11, 2008. The most recently-serving premier to die was Joe Ghiz (1986-1993), on November 9, 1996. General Specific Patrick George Binns (born October 8, 1948), is a Canadian diplomat who was named Ambassador to Ireland on August 30, 2007; s