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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND seems too good to be true, with its crisply painted farmhouses, manicured green fields rolling down to sandy beaches, the warmest ocean water north of Florida, lobster boats in trim little harbours, and a vest-pocket capital city packed with architectural heritage.

When you experience PEI, you'll understand instantly that it was no accident that Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel of youth and innocence, Anne of Green Gables, was framed against this land. What may have been unexpected, however, was how the story burst on the world in 1908 and is still selling untold thousands of copies every year. After potatoes and lobsters, Anne is the island's most important product.

Anne is everywhere on the island: At the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown you can often peruse Montgomery's original hand-written manuscript; even on cars throughout the province you'll see the freckled redhead, as the government stamped her face on the province's plates. But Anne's fame stretches beyond PEI and Cavendish- fondly referred to as Anne's land. She attracts international attention, especially from the Japanese, with whom she is hugely popular.

Outside the tourist mecca of Cavendish, the island seems like an oasis of peace in a world of turmoil. Here you'll find fishing ports, crossroads villages, small family farms. PEI is ringed by beaches, and few of them are heavily used.


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