Starting up in Summerside and Prince County
PEI’s second city sits on the harbour in the heart of Prince County farm country. Here’s what local entrepreneurs start, and how to get online before the season.
What gets started in Summerside
Summerside is the service centre for western PEI, and agriculture is never far away. Potato and dairy farms, fishing, and the businesses around them, like equipment repair, trucking, farm-gate sales, preserves and baking, are part of the local economy.
The waterfront and boardwalk draw summer visitors, and the nearby Evangeline region adds an Acadian, French-speaking community to the mix. Together they make room for tours, crafts, music, cafés, bike and kayak rentals and small lodgings that live on July and August.
As elsewhere on the Island, many new businesses here start as side projects: someone fixing small engines in the garage, baking for the market, cleaning cottages in summer or doing books for neighbours, who decides it’s time to make it official.
Local help for new entrepreneurs
Island-wide and local help for Summerside entrepreneurs:
- Innovation PEI — The province’s business development agency and the first stop for Island funding programs.
- CBDC Prince Edward Island — Community Business Development Corporations: Island-based loans, advice and training for new entrepreneurs. CBDCs have offices across the Island, including in Prince County.
- Summerside Chamber of Commerce — The local chamber for Summerside and the surrounding area.
- Holland College — PEI’s community college, with business, culinary and trades programs.
- Futurpreneur — Start-up financing paired with a volunteer business mentor, for entrepreneurs aged 18 to 39.
- BDC — The Business Development Bank of Canada: financing, plus free guides and templates for people starting out.
Your first step online
In Prince County, people know who does good work, but newcomers and summer visitors don’t. A website gives the cottage renter from Ontario, the family that just moved to Kensington and the farmer looking for a mechanic one place to find you, with a phone number they can tap and an email at your own domain.
WebNewBee makes it quick: choose one of 30 designs, answer a few questions, and your site is built in about a minute, in English, French or both.
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CA$6.99/month · plus applicable taxes
- Website with up to 6 pages, written by our AI from your facts
- Up to 3 email addresses on your own domain
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Tips for getting started in Summerside
- Seasonal businesses: publish by early spring, with your dates and hours at the top.
- If you serve Acadian customers in the Evangeline region, add a French version.
- Name the communities you cover: Kensington, Wellington, Tyne Valley, O’Leary.
- Ask your best customers for a review on your Google Business Profile.
A design to start from
Every design is a starting point. Our AI writes the words from your answers, and you can change everything.
- Handmade — Crafts & handmade goodshandmade.webnewbee.page
- Evergreen — Landscaping & snow removallandscaping.webnewbee.page
- Crumb — Home bakeries & pastrybakery.webnewbee.page
Questions
Can my site be in English and French?
Yes. Write it in one language and add the other in one click. Every word stays editable.
Is CA$6.99 a month the full price?
It’s CA$6.99 a month plus applicable taxes for your site, hosting and the builder. A domain of your own, if you want one, is billed yearly; a webnewbee.page address is free.
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