PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Trout River, Charlottetown

From tip to tip of Prince Edward Island is about 130 miles, while the width varies from two to more than thirty miles. In the two thousand and odd square miles of country embraced in these varying widths the island has more good land, in proportion to its size, than any part of the Maritime Privinces. It grows amazingly large potatoes and surprisingly heavy oats, while the farmers raise hundreds of the best horses and thousands of the fattest of sheep, every year of their lives. The eggs shipped away each season are counted by the million. The people raise enough food to supply all their own wants and have as much more to sell to outsiders. Its coast fisheries are of very great value. It is altogether a flourishing country, and withal, fair to look upon, and as pleasant and inexpensive a place in which to live as one can find in a year ’s journey.

The island is reached in summer either from Point du Chene, N.B., or Pictou, N .S., on the fast and finely equipped steamers of the Charlottetown Steam Navigation Company. Going by the first named route the landing is made at Summerside, and Charlottetown is reached by a journey of forty— nine miles on the Prince Edward Island Railway, a railway owned and oper- ated by the Dominion Government in connection with the Intercolonial. Leaving Pictou the trip is direct to Charlottetown. Theft Is a daily service on each route. In the winter the government steamers “Earl Grey" and “Minto” run between Pictou, Charlottetown and Georgetown.

The run across the Strait of Northumberland on a fine day in summer is a most enjoyable trip. There are times when the water is as calm as that