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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island
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Prince Edward Island
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Throughout history, people have dreamed about a special place remote from the Daytoday business world.
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Sometimes they have thought of this place as an enchanted world where the weather is always good and the food is always easy to get.
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Sometimes it has been a hidden valley in the mountains or an island far out to sea.
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When the Europeans arrived in the South Pacific, they thought that they had found it.
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Islands such as Tahiti seemed about as perfect as possible.
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Nowadays our cities grow larger and larger and people have to work harder and harder to succeed.
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Many people would like to escape to a quieter, slower, more peaceful, more attractive environment.
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When summer holidays come, many people travel to Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada.
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It has a mild summer climate and hardly ever gets too hot or dry.
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Fields, trees and crops stay green all summer.
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In fact, P/E I is famous for the many shades of green on the island.
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Its soil and dirt roads are red because of iron oxide in the soil, and visitors are never far away from the blue waters of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
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In late June and early July, the roadsides are covered with large purple flowers called lupins.
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The vivid colors of P/E I help make the province of photographers paradise.
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Prince Edward Island is almost 100 miles long and about 20 miles wide.
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It is small enough that a tourist can see much of the island in a couple of days, but there are enough interesting things to see and do that most people like to stay longer.
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One of the chief traditional occupations is fishing.
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At one time, fishing was an important source of food and income for many Islanders.
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Now the fisheries are in decline.
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Boat owners find it more profitable to take tourists out to fish than to fish themselves.
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Lobsters and shellfish are still important to the island, which is famous for its lobster suppers.
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Tourists can visit many picturesque little fishing villages all around the coastline.
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Farming is also important.
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EI is famous for its potatoes, which are exported all over the world.
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Dairy farming is also common and local ice cream is popular with tourists.
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Apple orchards, grain fields, hay fields and vegetable gardening are also widely found.
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During the era of sailing ships, a lot of shipbuilding took place on the island, but as steel hulls replaced wooden hulls, shipbuilding moved to regions where steel was being produced.
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The full impact of the industrial revolution has never hit PEI.
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Farming, fishing, and tourism have remained the chief industries.
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There are no large cities on the island, so if young people want to go to the big city, they have to leave PEI.
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The majority of island people prefer to live in small towns and villages, just as their ancestors did.
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Since there wasn't much industry on the island, many people did not have a lot of money.
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As a result they may do with their old houses, old furniture and old ways of doing things.
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This is why visitors to P/E I sometimes feel like they are going back in time.
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Things on the island seem like they are still the way things were in our parents or grandparents day.
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Most of the people who live on the island are descended from British immigrants.
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In the 18th or 19th centuries, the majority of these were from Scotland and the Scottish heritage remains strong.
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There are also some Mikmak Indians and some French Canadians or Acadians.
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The island has generally avoided social and political strife and this contributes to the peaceful atmosphere.
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Islanders welcome people from away as tourists.
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However, some say that to be a true Islander you have to be born on the island.
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Nonetheless, some tourists have fallen in love with PEI and have gone there to live.
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A couple of years ago, a bridge was built to connect the island with the mainland.
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Many opposed this fixed link, saying that it would destroy the special P/E I atmosphere.
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It remains to be seen whether the island will change now that tourists can drive directly onto the rich red soil.