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For a bit of web fun, I’ve been nominated for a Blogger’s Choice Award. If you’d like to vote for my little obsession, click on the badge. I think you can vote once every 24 hours. Voting closes Oct 19. Thanks for stopping by!

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Last bastion of bottled pop

To Americans, it’s soda. To us Canadians, it’s pop. And to people who live on Prince Edward Island, it’s available only in bottles.

It’s been that way since 1984. Canned beer has not been sold on the island since 1973. The province banned cans to protect jobs at the island’s only bottling plant.

I like it. [...]

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Lobster supper

The very first time I went to Prince Edward Island, I did the natural tourist thing and went straight to Cavendish to visit the site that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic novel, Anne of Green Gables.

But I really should have done the OTHER thing P.E.I. is famous for – the lobster supper.

The very first [...]

ST. STEPHEN: Sweet chicken bones

Ganong is Canada’s oldest candy company, started in 1873 by the Ganong family in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Today, it’s run by the family’s fourth generation and the town is still home to the head office and manufacturing plant on One Chocolate Drive.

St. Stephen is known as Canada’s chocolate town and naturally has a chocolate [...]

A stuffed vacation

Back from our vacation. Lots of new things and places to blog about in the coming weeks. Here’s a hint as to where I went. Can you guess?