Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Prince Edward Island is the ideal setting for the strange and incredible, even the supernatural.  Islanders have handed down, from one generation to the next, legends and ghost stories; tales of phantom ships and shipwrecks, Indian curses, buried pirate treasure, sea serpents, and ghostly apparitions.   

On the flip side, “The Island,” along with its neighbours, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick offers up a multitude of fascinating facts and fascinating anecdotes. Canada’s earliest history is here, in the region of Atlantic Canada known as ‘The Maritimes’. Dinosaurs roamed this land before the first Europeans stepped foot on our shores. Fascinating facts and unforgettable anecdotes provide a window to this unique land and its exceptional people. 

With a perceptive eye and generous wit, Julie V. Watson revels in the region’s diversity of customs and traditions, history and folklore, tales of daring do and cowardly flight, ships that wrecked and ghosts that roamed, not to mention achievers, heroes and heroines.

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