08/12/2026
Marie was a true light in our community and a valued part of the VRC’s history. Her presence, passion, and kindness will be deeply missed.
Our heartfelt condolences go to Marie’s loved ones and to all who had the privilege of knowing her. ❤️
ACIC extends its condolences to the loved ones and community of Marie Burge, who passed on 10 August 2026 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Marie exemplifies everything the not-for-profit sector works and inspires towards: passionate, engaged, dynamic, and above all, caring and fair. Marie’s enthusiasm for her community and her love of justice took her to volunteer and advocacy work in food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, environmental rights, reproductive justice, women’s rights, migrant workers’ rights, universal basic income, proportional representation and democratic structuring, and so much more through her work with the Cooper Institute, the Latin American Mission Program, the Working Group for a Livable Income, the Coalition for the Protection of PEI Lands, Save Our Seas and Shores, Islanders for Proportional Representation, and many others.
She bettered the lives of not just her friends and family, but all who live on PEI. But her scope goes so much further: Marie Burge was one of ACIC’s founding members fifty years ago, and her ground work set our course for the five decades since. The not-for-profit sector of Atlantic Canada wouldn’t be what it is without her work, and all she has done reverberates on the national and international stage.
Marie has been recognized several times over, including the 1998 Medal of Merit from the Order of PEI, the Leo Cheverie Lifetime Achievement Award from the Voluntary Resource Council in 2025, and also received the King Charles III Coronation Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2025.
We extend our condolences to all of Marie Burge’s loved ones and with the PEI not-for-profit community.
