As Sue mentioned in Oh, Canada, we had to leave a Pleasure Way RV Owners Rally because Joe contracted COVID. However, in the 10 days before illness forced us back to the US to quarantine, we visited a number of interesting and beautiful areas in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that are worth mentioning.

After we saw the Tidal Bore in Moncton, NB we traveled to Plage Murray Provincial Park (Murray Beach) for three nights to relax. We didn’t move our motorhome for the entire time we were there, which is unusual for us. The park is on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, just a twenty minute drive to the Confederation Bridge which connects NB to PEI. We were rewarded with beautiful camping weather, walks along the bay and wonderful sunsets. Since it was still early in the season, the park was sparsely occupied.

We visited Charlottetown, the largest city and capital of PEI and enjoyed shopping and dining there. We were very fortunate to visit on a weekend and find parking for our motorhome at the Confederation Park near the harbor. Charlottetown is a lovely, small town with lots to explore.

Charlottetown was the site of a conference in 1864 of representatives from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI to discuss a proposed union of these Maritime Provinces. The Province of Canada also attended this conference. In the end the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada entered confederation on July 1, 1867 and PEI stayed independent. Eventually economic debt caused by the failure of a railway project, and better terms offered by the Confederation of Provinces, persuaded PEI to join on July 1, 1873.

Orwell Historic Village is a small agricultural town established in the 1890’s. The town went out of existence in the mid 1960’s.  The Provincial Centennial Commission and the Provincial and Federal governments restored the town to late nineteenth century condition. There is still a working farm in Orwell as well as a preserved School, General Store, community hall and blacksmith’s shop.

We visited numerous lighthouses during our anti-clockwise tour of the southern and eastern shores of PEI. PEI has 61 light houses and Range Lights. We spent a lovely night camping just off the Atlantic Ocean in Brudenell.

We also made our way to the Saint Margaret of Scotland Pioneer Cemetery. The graves of many Scottish setters from the 1803 to 1900 are buried on this cliff overlooking the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. We were the only visitors to this beautiful and remote cemetery and were especially touched by the many children’s graves.

We camped in PEI National Park. The park is divided into three sections. We stayed in the Cavendish-North Rustico section of the Park. There were miles of red PEI beach and fun bike paths along the water.

Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908, was the first of 40 books written by L.M. Montgomery. Neither of us had read Anne of Green Gables but the home of her relatives, where the author had spent much of her time and which served as inspiration for her books, was certainly a big tourist attraction so we decided to stop and check it out. We were glad to learn more about this PEI author and were surprised to find that she had originally written Anne of Greene Gables for adults. Her birth place, a short distance away, is also open to the public.

In the future, we look forward to visiting the western and south western shores of PEI along with Quebec City, both of which we had to miss on this trip.

We stayed in two new states (New Hampshire and Vermont) and two Canadian Provinces (New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) on this trip. Prior to this, all Canadian Provinces were new to us! That leaves only 14 more of the lower 48 states, and eight more Canadian Provinces to visit.

We are a week into a three-month trip focusing on Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas. But first we plan to visit a dear 97-year-old uncle in Columbus, Ohio and a dear nephew in Mitchell, Indiana. We are excited to see them both!

Thanks, as always, for following along.