Charting a Course: The Study of Heritage on P.E.I.

The study conducted for the Province of PEI recently called Charting a Course: The Study of Heritage on P.E.I. is posted on-line. One can only hope that the important recommendations that it makes will not languish in cyberspace for too much longer.

Clearly this is the time for action on things like the Natural History mandate of our provincial museum system. The consultants put the issue into perspective when they wrote:

Related to the lack of a lead facility, and again recognized by most of the museum consultants, has been the neglect of the ‘natural heritage’ part of the provincial museum’s mandate. In response to Dr. Lemieux’s recommendation for the creation of a natural history museum, in 1987 Barbara MacDonald and the Natural History Museum Advisory Committee made fourteen recommendations on the subject to the PEIMHF. None was realized, and today the state of our natural heritage remains a major concern.