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Owen Connolly

A Postcard from Prince Edward Island

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2004

October 1, 2004 by Leave a Comment

The unique Irish / Scottish heritage of PEI, off the coast of Nova Scotia, is preserved in music and dance and in the faces of the people. ℘℘℘ "An always but never known place" is how Australian writer Thomas Keneally described his first visit to Ireland. That about describes how I felt a few hours after landing on Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada's smallest province (about … [Read more...] about A Postcard from Prince Edward Island

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