Prince Edward Island -- Beautiful!

The Gentle Island.
Thats how Tourism PEI describes it.
Canada's smallest province.
About the size of Delaware, with a population less than Delaware's least populous county.

I love to go there when I'm in Atlantic Canada!

Located in eastern Canada, about a day's drive from Boston, Prince Edward Island is the place to come for a gentle vacation. No professional sports teams. No skyscrapers. No commuter traffic. Charlottetown, the largest "city", has a population of about 32,000 persons.

But if you like beaches, P.E.I. is a great summer destination. If you like country roads and ocean, this is the place to come. It's great for golfing and beach-combing and dining. If you like friendly, laid-back people who will engage you in leisurely conversation, this is your place. If you like folk music, you'll find plenty of it here.

The province's main industries are agriculture, tourism and fishing. You'll see plenty of Japanese tourists if you go to Green Gables in July. (Green Gables is the beautiful old house that provided the setting for Lucy Maud Montgomery's literary classic Anne of Green Gables. The Green Gables theme permeates P.E.I. tourism.) Cavendish Beach is perhaps the most tourist-y place you'll find, but Atlantic City it ain't. (There is a nudist colony near there somewhere, I've read.)

Since 1997, the Confederation Bridge connects P.E.I. to the rest of North America. Nearly 13 kilometers long, this toll bridge itself will become one of your vacation memories.

Maybe this summer, maybe next. Or maybe by 2015. But whenever you finally get to P.E.I., it will be a gentle vacation that you'll remember fondly.

This first (short) video gives you the flavour of the Islanders. The second video reveals the beauty of the Island itself.