About Queens County, PE

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.

Trinity United Church located at 220 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island is the oldest Church in the city of Charlottetown. It was dedicated in 1864.

Rev. John Moses is the Minister of Worship and Administration, Rev. Ian MacLean is the Minister of Pastoral Care, Anne Doiron is the Office Administrator, Donald Fraser is the Director of Music.

Trinity United Church is strong in outreach into the community. It broadcasts its services over the local PEI Cable Network.

If you are visiting the Charlottetown, PEI area, please make it a point to visit Trinity United Church - you'll be glad you did.

That's it for now,

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

An old sea kayaking client and friend contacted me recently.

He's got 9 different locations with approximately 60 lots ranging from one to 10 acres and with pricing from $50,000 (wooded) to $700,000 (prime white sand beach oceanfront). The average lot price is on the order of $150,000. He also have 3 homes, ranging from $349,000 (spectacular ocean view) to $549,000 (5 acres beach oceanfront).

This is beautiful property ... and the prices are peanuts for the new wealthy of Alberta.

I'll plan to visit a few of these properties when I'm home in June.