Access P.E.I. opening another office Monday, this time in Cornwall

Delaney Kelly · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: March 8

People surviving successful the Town of Cornwall are getting their ain Access P.E.I. determination to service the municipality's increasing population.

Opening Monday morning, it volition beryllium located astatine 638 Main St., beside the Murphy's Pharmacy successful Cornwall. 

Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Ernie Hudson said the colonisation of Cornwall is expanding quickly, truthful overmuch truthful that it is present the 14th astir rapidly increasing assemblage successful Canada.  

"It was deemed that it was necessary," Hudson said of the caller office, which volition fto Islanders use for driver's licences, gathering permits, wellness cards and matrimony licences, among astir 420 in-person and online services. 

The curate said the Cornwall determination should pb to hold times astatine different Access P.E.I. locations going down. 

The astir caller determination added earlier the Cornwall bureau was a tract astatine Royalty Crossing promenade successful Charlottetown, astir 2 years ago. 

"That did certainly... instrumentality a definite magnitude of hold times distant from the determination connected Riverside Drive," Hudson said.

Islanders requested services from Access P.E.I. astir 186,000 times past year, which Hudson said was a large summation of 42,000 compared to 2 years earlier.