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

People living in the Town of Cornwall are getting their own Access P.E.I. location to serve the municipality's growing population.

Opening Monday morning, it will be located at 638 Main St., beside the Murphy's Pharmacy in Cornwall. 

Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Ernie Hudson said the population of Cornwall is increasing quickly, so much so that it is now the 14th most rapidly growing community in Canada.  

"It was deemed that it was necessary," Hudson said of the new office, which will let Islanders apply for driver's licences, building permits, health cards and marriage licences, among about 420 in-person and online services. 

The minister said the Cornwall location should lead to wait times at other Access P.E.I. locations going down. 

The most recent location added before the Cornwall office was a site at Royalty Crossing mall in Charlottetown, about two years ago. 

"That did certainly... take a certain amount of wait times away from the location on Riverside Drive," Hudson said.

Islanders requested services from Access P.E.I. roughly 186,000 times last year, which Hudson said was a major increase of 42,000 compared to two years earlier.