Prince Edward Island Travel Guide
The freckly face and pert pigtails of Anne of Green Gables are emblazoned
on much of PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 's publicity material, and her creator, local-born
novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery, was the island's most gushing propagandist, depicting the
place floating "on the waves of the blue gulf, a green seclusion and haunt of ancient
peace ? invested with a kind of fairy grace and charm". Radical William Cobbett, who
soldiered here in the 1780s, was not so dewy-eyed, and saw instead "a rascally heap
of sand, rock and swamp ? a lump of worthlessness [that] bears nothing but potatoes".
Each had a point. The economy may not be quite as uniform as Cobbett suggested, but PEI
does remain thoroughly agricultural - Million-Acre Farm, as it's sometimes called. On the
other hand, the country's smallest province - a crescent-shaped slice of land separated
from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by the Northumberland Strait - can be beguiling. The
island's long and complicated shoreline is banded by sandy beaches in the north and
serrated by dozens of bays and estuaries, where the ruddy soils and grassy tones of the
rolling countryside are set beautifully against the blue of the sea.
Charlottetown , the capital and only significant settlement, sits on the south coast
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