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Beaconsfield Mansion in Charlottetown dates from 1877 as the archetype of Victorian architectural splendour.
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Province House in Charlottetown has been the provincial seat of government since 1847, also being a National Historic Site.
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The waterfront and city centre of Charlottetown.
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A serpentine stream drifts southward to the Northumberland Strait.
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Delvay-by-the-Sea caters to the well-heeled north of Charlottetown.
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The house of “Anne of Green Gables” is a major tourist attraction on the island, particularly with the Japanese. The novel places Anne’s home here in the late 1800s, the 11 year-old orphan girl mistakenly living with middle-aged siblings due to an orphanage mix-up. A melodrama ensues.
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At Green Gables it was hoped that the orphan Anne would pitch in on the siblings’ farm chores and the thriving veg garden.
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Red silt drifts seaward northeast of the capitol.
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A surfer heads shoreward on the tidal flats at Keppoch.
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Families enjoy a low-tide sandbar at Keppoch on the south shore.
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Red sand tidal flats undulate shoreward at St. Peters Island about four kliks off the main island’s south coast.
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Generally the white sand beaches line the north coast and
the red sand beaches the south coast.
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A borardwalk winds through the coastal wetlands near Greenwich.
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Sunbathers soak in the rays at an endless white sand beach
on the north shore near Greenwich.
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A mother and son have ample beach to wander and explore.
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Sand dunes fringe the wetlands at the National Park.
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At French River on the north shore the fishboats and lobster traps are briefly idle.
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Lobster traps line a wharf at Covehead Bay, the traps being iconic
of all four Maritime provinces.
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Confederation Bridge stretches almost 13 kliks across Northumberland Strait to mainland New Brunswick, the only land link to the island.
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