New Annan, Prince Edward Island

New Annan is a outlying community within the city of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is named after Annan, Dumfries-shire, Scotland.^[1]

Cavendish Farms, Prince Edward Island's largest private sector employer, maintains two large frozen foods processing plants in New Annan.

An 1875 gazetteer refers to New Annan Mills as a "small village in Prince co. [County], 6 miles from Summerside. Pop.[Population] 80."^[2]

November 2011 homicide

On November 13, 2011, two people died in suspicious circumstances in New Annan. A car parked at the roadside with a man and a woman in it was found on Prince Edward Island Route 2 in New Annan, between Routes 110 and 120. The woman was dead; the man later died in hospital.^[3]

References

1. ^ Hamilton, William B. (1996). "New Annan, PEI". Place names of Atlantic Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 467. ISBN 0802004717. http://books.google.ca/books?id=UAvyE0pN5akC&lpg=PA426&dq=%22New%20Annan%22%20PEI&pg=PA467#v=onepage&q=%22New%20Annan%22%20%20&f=false. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
2. ^ "New Annan Mills". Lovell's Gazetteer of British North America. Containing the Latest and Most Authentic Descriptions of Over Six Thousand Cities. 1875. p. 209. http://books.google.ca/books?id=PGn05J_gd70C&lpg=PA209&dq=%22New%20Annan%22%20PEI&pg=PA209#v=onepage&q=%22New%20Annan%22%20PEI&f=false. Retrieved November 13, 2011. 
3. ^ "UPDATE - Police investigating homicide". The Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island). November 13, 2011. http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-11-13/article-2803788/UPDATE--Two-dead-in-New-Annan,-police-say-it-may-be-murder/1=. Retrieved November 13, 2011.