From: Travel Video TV News

Year-Long Festivities Honor Canada’s Green Gables Heroine
ATLANTIC CANADA, February, 2008 – A pastoral island in the Canadian Maritimes is celebrating a cherished heroine on her 100th “birthday.” Lucy Maud Montgomery’s red-haired orphan, Anne of Green Gables has charmed millions of readers all over the world for almost a century. In her honor, Prince Edward Island (PEI) is hosting a year-long series of ceilidhs and kitchen parties, country fairs and concerts, picnics, barn dances and firelight story-telling sessions. Read more…

From: CBC

Plans to create a Crown corporation to manage tourism for the province of P.E.I. and reduce the size of the Tourism Advisory Council have led to some friction between government and the industry.

As part of her plan, new Tourism Minister Valerie Docherty intends to cut the TAC, an industry group that advises government, from 40 members to between 12 and 15. read more…

From: The Star

By: Daphne GordonLucy

Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, in 1874.Her mother died two years later and her father moved west, leaving Maud, as she was known in girlhood, to be cared for by her grandparents in Cavendish, P.E.I. An enthusiastic student and an avid writer, Montgomery published her first poem when she was 17, went on to become a teacher, and studied for a year at Dalhousie University – a rare achievement for a woman of her era. more…

From: The Guardian…

By: Editorials

The sale of the Rodd hotel chain means a big transition for P.E.I.’s most important publicly owned tourism properties…

From: The Guardian

By: MARY MACKAY

When it comes to creativity, Garfield “Gar” Gillis of Point Prim doesn’t keep his enthusiasm bottled up inside.

Instead, he heads straight to the great outdoors to add to the structural integrity of the growing bottle town in the backyard of his Point Prim home.

“The light makes all the difference in the world,” Gillis says of the warm glow cast by the sun shining through the bottles to the interior of his latest bottle building, a 14-foot-tall lighthouse made with nearly 3,400 bottles. Read more…

From: CBC News 

Ten years ago Friday, tourists making a weekend visit to P.E.I. were coming via the Confederation Bridge for the first time, and the impact of the span has been given mixed reviews.

‘A phenomenon like the bridge only comes around once in a lifetime.’— Don Cudmore, TIAPEI

In its first year, the increase in tourism from the Confederation Bridge was beyond anyone’s expectations. A 40 per cent jump in visits put the Island over a million visitors for the first time.

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From: The Guardian

By: NANCY WILLIS 
Ten years of Conservative government have failed to solve the shortage of physicians, and time is running out on planning to meet the needs of an increasingly aging population,”. read more

From: The Guardian

By: MARY MACKAY

After more than a century in relative limbo, the writings of one Island priest detailing the history of P.E.I. Roman Catholic parishes up to 1885 have come to life in a new book

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PEI has its own cross-province cycling trail: Confederation trail. It runs 350km, from tip to tip of the island. The trail is PEI’s part of the Trans Canada trail. Another great cycling destination.

From: The Guardian

By: KATIE SMITH

At last count, more than 20,000 tickets were sold, he said.

“I’m expecting that on July 21, Aerosmith is going to be playing to a sold-out audience.’’

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