About Queens County, PE

"The Guardian" newspaper in Prince Edward Island, Canada, announces that Reba McEntire and Tim McGraw are coming to PEI this July to headline a big concert. This huge event will take place in Cavendish, PEI.

Cavendish, PEI is one of the most active tourist areas, and is famous for its beautiful white sand ocean beaches for great swimming and summer fun.

This event will add a great deal of money to the PEI economy and especially businesses in the immediate area of Cavendish.

This will also be good for the PEI Real Estate Market as there will be many newcomers to PEI who will want to own a part of this great island paradise.

That's it for now,

George, Red Soil Real Estate Inc., 902-962-2050, http://www.buysellpei.com

Mr. "Las Vegas" himself, Wayne Newton and his 10 piece orchestra is coming to Prince Edward Island, Canada, on March 14, 2009, and will play at the great Confederation Centre Of The Arts in the capital city of Charlottetown, PEI. It will be great for the citizens of PEI to see this seasoned entertainer perform his many hit songs.

The Confederation Centre Of The Arts in Charlottetown is a PEI cultural landmark well known for its many live plays, especially the world famous "Anne Of Green Gables".

That's it for now,

George, Red Soil Real Estate Inc., 902-962-2050, http://www.buysellpei.com

Anne Shirley of Green Gables is 100

Yes that's right. Anne turned 100 this year.

2008 marked Lucy Maude Montgomery's Maritime classic series about the orphan girl with an enormous independant indomitable spirit always on the lookout for her 'kindred spirits'.

And I was there! Prince Edward Island was teeming with celebration this summer, with plays and Everything-Ann.

The Legendary 'Green Gables'.

(I almost drove right by! The sight was closed, but seeing was enough for me.)

Lucy Maude Montgomery lived in this quaint country house for a year while teaching in the area.

I didn't 'plan' on hitting the 'Anne' or Lucy Maude Montgomery sites, but happened on all of them along my drive. I also saw the house of Lucy Maude's birth - however as I previously mentioned, so much photo op gets in my way.

The new movie, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, is both a prequel and sequel to the famous long running series with Megan Follows playing Anne. Before her arrival at Green Gables in Prince Edward Island, Anne had found a kindred spirit in a wealthy widow played by Shirley Maclaine. Barbara Hershey plays the adult Anne.

From among 1000 young Canadian girls,12-year-old Hannah Endicott-Douglas of Toronto was chosen as Anne - a tough job following years of Megan Follows in the role, whom I would like to have seen play the adult Anne.

Quiet pastoral south shoreline. I was frequently moved emotionally travelling here.

PEI is a serenely beautiful pastoral province of Canada, which I'd always wanted to visit. Driving along a country road, I smiled at a mailbox with the name Blanchett on it - my grandfather's last name - very possible distant relatives. The history of the Acadian French relates back over 250 years here.

Taken about 6:30am - PEI central north shore, Rustico Beach on the 'Anne's Land Drive, not far from Anne's Cavendish.

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With all that is going on in the media regarding the economy and real estate, this question comes up frequently. I thought I would compare the past few years in terms of listings and sales volume by month. The data is for Residential Sales in the Greater Charlottetown Area, including Stratford and Cornwall, back to 2005.

While inventory is up and the sales volume is down, prices have remained fairly steady in this area. It is interesting that June, July, and August sales were actually UP compared with 2006.

The charts provide a pretty clear picture of the trends in the past few years - click on the chart to enlarge them.