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Prince Edward County has consulted with many experts in their fields to guide economic and community development. The resulting reports, strategies and agendas are included here for your reference.
- Agri-food Market Report
- Building Creative Rural Economies
- Canada's Creative Corridor
- Cultural planning as an instrument for locating Ontario provincial parks within the valuable landscape of a community
- Culture in the Countryside
- Growing the Creative Rural Economy in Prince Edward County
- Market Readiness Study & Strategic Economic Development Plan
- Milford and South Marysburgh Action Agenda
- PEC Tourism Strategy: Sustaining & Managing Growth
- Picton Main Street: Towards Urban Design Guidelines
- Premier Ranked Tourist Destination Report for PEC
- Prince Edward County Agri-Food Study
- Prince Edward County Culinary Tourism Study
- Report on Economic Development in Consecon
- Strategic Action Plan for Downtown Picton
- Strategic Municipal Cultural Plan
- The Picton Charette
Agri-food Market Report
Research shows that up to 70 per cent of consumers would prefer to purchase regional food products, this lends itself to enabling producers to capture greater end-value from the market. Regional marketing can lead to increased profitability from opportunities to differentiate products in order to secure a larger market share, a reduction in transport costs, and, potentially capture premiums from the marketplace. Suited to perishable products in particular, regional markets offer produce suppliers a market opportunity that they should not overlook.
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Report produced by:
Martin Gooch, George Morris Centre, e: martin(at)georgemorris.org, ph:519.822.3929 ext 216
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Building Creative Rural Economies
On March 17th 2008, local Economic Development Officer, Dan Taylor and Authenticity Principle Greg Baeker, made a presentation, on Prince Edward County’s Creative Rural Economy (CRE). This case study was chosen by the Conference Board of Canada for their International Forum on the Creative Economy, held in Gatineau, Quebec. This presentation was an opportunity to share Prince Edward County’s experience in developing it’s Creative Economy, including the role that Municipal Culture Planning plays in developing a CRE and to illustrate that creative economies are not just urban phenomena’s but the practices and principles can also apply to rural areas.
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Contact Information:
The Conference Board of Canada, 255 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8M7 phone: 613-526-3280 toll free:1-866-711-2262
Case Study Produced by:
Dan Taylor, Prince Edward County, e:dtaylor(at)pecounty.on.ca, ph: 613.476.2148 extn:246
Dr. Greg Baeker, AuthentiCity, e:gbaeker(at)navltd.com, ph: 416.642.7428
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Canada's Creative Corridor
Connecting Creative Urban & Rural Economies within Eastern Ontario & The Mega Region
Funded by The Eastern Ontario CFDC Network Inc, Fednor and The Government of Canada, 2009.
Eastern Ontario is located in the triangle formed by Canada’s three creative economy engines - Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. It is also in the heart of the Mega Region running from Quebec City to London including the economies of Upper New York State that generates approximately $530 Billion or roughly 50% of Canada’s GDP and includes a market of 22 million people. Our location gives us unprecedented opportunity to reach markets and attract investment.
We know that creative people put value on quality of life; they will trade wages for amenities.Eastern Ontario offers a different lifestyle from larger centres, one with a slower pace and greater opportunity for interaction and community. We offer: affordable and available housing; safe neighbourhoods; strong cultural and recreational amenities; picturesque landscapes and natural beauty; a unique rich history and culture, and more.
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Report produced by:
Dr. Greg Baeker, AuthentiCity, e: gbaeker(at)navltd.com, ph: 416.642.7428
Martin Prosperity Institute
Lauren Millier, Millier Dickinson Blais e: lmillier(at)millierdickinsonblais.com, ph: 416.367.3535
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Cultural planning as an instrument for locating Ontario provincial parks within the valuable landscape of a community.
A case study of Sandbanks Provincial Park in Prince Edward County, Ontario by Anne Fitzpatrick
This research will examine two major subjects: Ontario Parks and cultural planning. The purpose of this research is to illustrate the interconnectivity between the two subjects and to determine if they can be beneficial to each other.
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Thesis presented by Anne Fitzpatrick to the University of Waterloo in fulfilment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in Planning.
Growing the Creative Rural Economy in Prince Edward County
"Geography 337" visited Prince Edward County on a fact finding tour in February 2008 as part of the research for their report - Growing the Creative Rural Economy in Prince Edward County. Prince Edward County (PEC) is at a critical point in its history. In recent years there has been an explosion of investment in The County as it has emerged as Ontario’s newest wine region, as a tourist centre offering a unique mix of culinary, artistic, and heritage amenities, and as a potential site for a knowledge-intensive creative rural economy. Strategies must be implemented to ensure PEC capitalizes on its unique quality of place while maximizing economic growth. This report describes PEC's current situation, highlighting its inherent strengths and identifying its areas of weakness in order to offer constructive solutions to grow the Creative Rural Economy in PEC.
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See photos from the tour on Flickr
Contact Information:
Queen's University,Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D201,Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6 Dr. Betsy Donald, email: betsydonald(at)queensu.ca, phone: 613.533.6040 http://geog.queensu.ca/
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Market Readiness Study & Strategic Economic Development Plan
The County of Prince Edward has achieved economic development success in the fields of agriculture, cultural industries, tourism and some varied industrial sectors. The County wishes to implement an economic strategy that will build upon existing successes and expand the economic development base of the County. The current foundation for the economic development strategy of the County is ‘lifestyle attraction’. That is, given reasonably competitive jurisdictional economic factors in the County, the edge in investment attraction is based upon creating an attractive location in which to live.
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Plan produced by:
George Schrijver, WCM Consulting Inc., e: george(at)wcmconsulting.com, ph: 905.478.8523 Back to top
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Milford and South Marysburgh Action Agenda
Sponsored by the Economic Development Office of the County of Prince Edward and the Prince Edward Lennox Addington Community Futures Corporation (PELA), a community-based process was followed to to design an action agenda for the ongoing development of the Milford/South Marysburgh economy. The Action Agenda was developed through two facilitated Community Workshops (November 17 and December 1, 2007), held in Milford, involving 42 community participants, an examination of relevant documents from the County, and 14 key informant interviews conducted in and outside of the area with residents and former residents.
Read the Action Agenda
Agenda produced by:
David J.A. Douglas & Associates, Ltd., e: djdougla(at)uoguelph.ca, ph: 519.824.4120 extn:56785
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PEC Tourism Strategy: Sustaining & Managing Growth
This report was commissioned in 2006 to provide strategic direction for the destination marketing and development of “the County’s” tourism industry through 2010. It provides recommendations on strategic initiatives to be undertaken, an industry alliance structure to allow all of the tourism industry stakeholders to work cooperatively and an approach to raising the necessary funds to implement the strategy.
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Strategy produced by:
Darcy McKittrick, The Tourism Company, e: darcy(at)tourismco.com, ph: 705.876.7711
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Picton Main Street: Towards Urban Design Guidelines
The ultimate goal of the Urban Design Guideline process is to assist the County in ensuring that future development on the Main Street results in high quality, comprehensive and appropriate built form and open space design. This ‘Towards Urban Design Guidelines’
document builds on the Strategic Action Plan for Downtown Picton. It is intended to be expanded upon to create detailed Urban Design Guidelines that will shape future development for Main Street Picton.
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Produced by:
Anne McIlroy, Brook McIlroy Inc., e: amcilroy(at)brookmcilroy.com, p: 416.504.5997
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Premier Ranked Tourist Destination Report for PEC
The Premier Ranked Tourist Destination (PRTD) was developed by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism & Recreation (MTR) to provide a framework for tourism destinations across Ontario to define their competitive position within the tourism marketplace on domestic and international levels. Prince Edward County undertook the PRTD process in 2005.
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Report produced by:
Richard Innes, Brain Trust Marketing & Communications
e: richard.innes(a)sympatico.ca, ph: 905.274.4184
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Prince Edward County Agri-Food Study
Using survey data from five separate questionnaires, three major components of the foodshed are examined in this study. These consist of the producers and processors of agricultural and animal products, the commercial businesses including lodging, foodservice and retail that integrate these products into their consumer offerings and lastly residents and visitors who purchase local produce at the County farm gates.
Read the Agri-Food Study
Contact Information:
Ryerson University,350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3,Canada
Richard Wade, email: rwade(at)ryerson.ca, phone: 416-979-5000 Ext.6702
http://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/htm/#
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Prince Edward County Culinary Tourism Study
The emergence of Prince Edward County (PEC) as a culinary tourism destination has provided an opportunity to study the transition of a largely rural region in Ontario from a resource and manufacturing based economy to a service economy. Ryerson University and the Economic Development Office funded a visitor survey during July and August 2006 to consider whether significant investment has bolstered culinary tourism.
Read the Culinary Tourism Study
Contact Information:
Ryerson University,350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3,Canada
Richard Wade, email: rwade(at)ryerson.ca, phone: 416-979-5000 Ext.6702
http://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/htm/#
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Report on Economic Development in Consecon
The Report on Economic Development in Consecon, Prince Edward County is a present socio-economic and economic development snapshot of the Village, and the potential that lies therein for future community economic development. It includes recommendations and suggests next steps that can help guide future community economic development in Consecon.
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Contact Information:
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
David J. A. Douglas, email: djdougla(at)uoguelph.ca, phone: 519.824.4120 ext 56785
http://www.uoguelph.ca/sedrd/RPD/
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Strategic Action Plan for Downtown Picton
In 2005 The Economic Development Office and the Picton BIA commissioned a Strategic Action Plan for Picton with an emphasis on commercial, social, and physical elements. The recommendations of this plan are being now implemented as part of the work of the B.I.A.
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Plan produced by:
Anne McIlroy, Brook McIlroy Inc., e: amcilroy(at)brookmcilroy.com, ph: 416.504.5997
John Archer, Urban Marketing Collaborative, e: jarcher(at)jcwg.com, ph: 416.921.4181
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Strategic Municipal Cultural Plan
In 2005 Prince Edward County Council adopted the Cultural Strategic Plan (CSP). This plan, which includes a working group, the Cultural Round Table, won in the Strategic Plans category at the Economic Developer’s Council of Ontario’s annual conference, and has positioned Prince Edward County as a leader in Municipal Cultural Planning.
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Plan produced by:
Dr. Greg Baeker, AuthentiCity, e: gbaeker(a)navltd.com, ph: 416.642.6428
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The Picton Charette
In 2003 Ryerson University conducted research with the community to produce the Picton Charette containing recommendations for downtown Picton.
Read the Picton Charette
Contact Information:
Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario,M5B 2K3, Canada
Masha Etkin, email: metkind(at)ryerson.ca phone:416 979-5000 Ext.6503 http://www.ryerson.ca/arch/fac.htm
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