TYNE VALLEY

AT A GLANCE

Rural Municipality of Tyne Valley is located in Western Prince Edward Island, Canada. Our current population is 249.

In 1765, the Tyne Valley area was known as “The Landing”, as lumber floated up the Trout River from the shipyards at Bideford and Port Hill. The community was officially named Tyne Valley in 1868, after the River Tyne in England. At that time, the community’s economy was bustling, with a blacksmith, cheese factory, tannery, tailor, carriage shop, plasterer, shoemaker, grist mills, and saw mills.