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hedges and small—~but all dividing the country into a bright checkerboard of red and green. The hedges, the red soil, and the hills remind one of county Devon. Indeed, if there were only a few thatched roofs in sight a “ Devonian, ” transplanted to Prince Edward Island, might wake up in the morning and never notice the difference, until, perhaps, he asked for his early— morning cup of tea, and later for his Devonshire cream.

Roads! And names, too, are as intriguing. Take the Island names, for instance— Has any other district in the world acquired so many descriptive names?

Prince Edward Island

St. John’s Island

Isle St. Jean

Spud Island

The Island

Canada’s Garden Province The Cradle of Confederation The Million Acre Farm

The Home of the Silver Fox Industry Epagweit

Minegoo

P.E.I.

The Garden of the Gulf.

But, perhaps, the earliest is still the best—Epagweit, “ Cradled on the Wave. ” For that word is a picture of the Island itself. When twilight spreads over the land it is then that its Indian name is particularly appropriate. Then the Island really looks as if it were cradled on the wave ready to float away.

What stories are behind those Island names! Here the Indian, Scots, French, and Irish met, fought, and gradually intermingled. At first, the newly conquered French, distrustful of the new settlers, avoided them