Guest Ep: Exploring Prince Edward Island

It has red sand beaches, quiet coves, and more stories than anyone has time to tell.

I’m joined by a few special guests. We’ll explore Prince Edward Island through games, trivia, and conversations about its history, culture, and unique charm.

Like all our guest episodes, this one has a different vibe, but we hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

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Sunnie 0:15

On Canada's east coast sits a province where red soil meets the sea, and cliffs slowly wear away into shifting tides, reshaped each day by wind, water, and time itself. Here, long stretches of coastline unwind into quiet harbors and wide open beaches, while inland roads pass by farmland that rolls gently toward the horizon. Lighthouses stand along the edges of it all, steady against weather that changes its mind without warning. It may be the smallest province in the country, but nothing about it feels small once you're here. This is Prince Edward Island. For thousands of years, this land has been home to the indigenous peoples, whose lives were shaped by the same tides that still define the island today. The seasons weren't just changes in weather. They were movement, rhythm, and survival. Then came waves of change. European settlements reshaped the coastline and the communities along with it. Through it all, the island kept its identity, shaped by farming communities and coastal life. And of course, there's the version of PEI the world thinks it knows: rolling green fields, red dirt roads, and a girl named Anne who turned this quiet island into one of the most recognizable literary settings in the world. But PEI isn't just a storybook. And today we're going to explore some of it. I've got some guests returning, and we'll be diving into some fun questions and a few listener submissions from my Twitch chat and the Discord. So let's start simple like we did last time. When someone says P-I, what's the first thing that comes to your mind?

Tally 2:22

Um I don't really know. I'm picturing like green. I don't know if I've only seen like the sign.

Phil 2:30

Toes.

Tally 2:32

Toes? Why do hold on?

Sunnie 2:34

Why toes?

Phil 2:36

No, potato toes.

Sunnie 2:37

Oh, potato. Oh my god. It cut off and all I heard was toes.

Phil 2:42

You don't have to just leave it like that for the rest of the uh I oh I'm leaving it.

Sunnie 2:48

Uh that's hilarious. I'm absolutely leaving that in.

Phil 2:53

Anna Green Gables.

Sunnie 2:55

That's another big thing. Yep. Yeah. Actually, speaking of that, um, Anna Green Gables. Overhyped, or would you say like properly hyped?

Tally 3:08

It's fine. It's fine, I guess. It's fine, I guess.

Sunnie 3:17

Yeah, like did did you read the books or watch the show as a kid or I feel like I just saw the play.

Phil 3:24

Oh I remember the cartoon.

Sunnie 3:27

Yeah, like I remember the cartoon and I did read it. I think we had to read it for an actual study in English class or something.

Phil 3:35

Yes. I mean it's a Canadian classic. Like, I don't necessarily know so much that it's overhyped as much as it's just like we're so used to it. It's like Shakespeare's stuff. Everyone knows Romeo and Juliet. Every Canadian knows Anne of Green Gables, and like everyone else knows Anne of Green Gables because that's like one of the big Canadian books that goes everywhere.

Sunnie 3:55

Yeah, that's kind of how I kind of looked at it as well. If you say Anne of Green Gables like anywhere across Canada, they're gonna know what you're talking about. And then they're gonna probably make the connection to PEI, unless they don't know. But also, are you really Canadian if you don't know? Like, I don't know. Fair, fair. I'm assuming that Tally has not visited. Phil, have you visited PEI?

Phil 4:20

I have not.

Sunnie 4:22

Oh, you guys both haven't visited yet.

Phil 4:25

Nope. I've been to no location, I've seen bridge, but I haven't been to PEI.

Sunnie 4:30

Oh, you gotta do it. It's kind of cool because you can genuinely drive across like the whole island within a day, which is kind of awesome. It's very different than here. Inland, it's all like the rolling farmlands, and it's this bright red soil because it's super iron-rich.

Tally 4:49

Oh, yeah, that's super cool.

Sunnie 4:51

And it's so cool. Potatoes and lobster or like seafood is some of their most major things that they provide. I can't remember the word for that right now. Exports? Is that the word? Yes. Export. Thank you. Exports. But yeah, no, genuinely, if you get the chance to go, go. It's really nice. It's kind of it's quieter than you think it would be. I think summer is really, really popular out there where it's swarming with tourists. I could see that, yeah. Yeah, like it's beautiful and everywhere you go, it just looks like a straight up postcard. But yeah, it's it's very yeah, it's very, very overpopulated uh in tourism season for sure.

Tally 5:39

Yeah, I imagine some of the other islands like Nova Scotia and Newfoundland might come across it as well.

Phil 5:45

Oh, for sure. Absolutely. We're not there yet, so you have to wait for the other podcasts to talk about those.

Sunnie 5:56

This is Phil's podcast now. We just work here.

Phil 6:00

Spoiler for the upcoming podcasts.

Tally 6:05

He's got it all planned out. He's got it all ready.

Sunnie 6:11

Maybe, possibly, you know. I don't know.

Phil 6:14

I also thought that maybe we could switch things up and like the rest of our time we just dedicate to like Argentina.

Tally 6:22

Just countries around the world. Oh no.

Phil 6:26

No, it's now switched to where we've traveled yet.

Sunnie 6:29

It's now what lurks Argentina. Easy. Um well, I guess since neither of you have been there, we'll play a little Would You Rather. Um, so obviously I mentioned tourism season, but uh summer PEI or winter PEI.

Phil 6:48

Or I do not want to be anywhere near the coast when uh the Atlantic m squalls come in.

Sunnie 6:55

I would I would agree with that. I would, yep. Beach day or road trip through the farmland.

Tally 7:05

I feel like I can do that here. Definitely beach day.

Phil 7:08

Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I'd take the road trip. I like moving around. I find myself getting bored really fast at beaches. Honestly, that's fair too. Putting my feet in the water for like 45 minutes, time to go.

Sunnie 7:21

Yeah, and plus it's like it's not really lakes and stuff, it's just straight ocean. Something about that freaks me out. I don't know why. Um, I'll put my feet in it and like I'll swim to a certain level as long as you know there's like a net out there or something protecting me. But other than that, nah. I'm good.

Phil 7:43

Although I bet there's a lot of good diving spots around PEI.

Sunnie 7:46

Yeah, there's tons of shipwrecks and everything, so you can you can totally check those out, but also lots of sharks. I'm pretty sure it's one of the areas where Great Whites are spotted, if I remember right. Even uh like Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, like all of those places, you'll find Great Whites near them.

Tally 8:08

Yeah, all the little guys foam in the ocean.

Sunnie 8:11

Yeah. But but yes, so road trip for Phil because beach boring. Honestly, I kind of get that. And then Tally takes the beach day. I'm kind of like I'm kind of on the fence. Because I'm kind of the same for beach day, I might get too bored. But at the same time, sitting in the car all day also doesn't sound very fun to me.

Tally 8:32

But if you want to flip it around, I guess being in the car, you do get to see lots of things.

Sunnie 8:36

You do, you do get to see lots of things, which I like. You can you can get out of the car.

Tally 8:41

I wonder, um, this is this is another little side tangent. Would PEI have like those little like roadside quests where they're like, oh, biggest chair over here, you know what I mean? If they have a lot of tourism stuff, they might.

Sunnie 8:53

They might. It's a really big tourism island. That's like one of their main things, if I remember right. I have to Google this briefly. PEI has a shellfish festival every year. Like you go in, you pay a certain price, you get a hotel, and then there's like competitions for like shucking, oysters, and like all of that kind of shit.

Tally 9:19

Oh my goodness.

Sunnie 9:20

Yeah. Genuinely, we almost went last year. But then, you know, we took another side quest in the world instead.

unknown 9:31

Fair.

Sunnie 9:32

One day we'll get there for it. It will be delicious and it will be mine.

Tally 9:38

It will be mine.

Sunnie 9:40

We kind of did this before with the Yukon, but would you live in Charlottetown, which is its capital, or a tiny coastal town?

Tally 9:50

Well, uh, the way you worded is tiny coastal towns seems really appealing.

Phil 9:55

I mean, I guess like PEI is so small, relatively speaking, like Yeah. No matter where you are, you're basically only like an hour's drive from Charlottetown, so.

Sunnie 10:09

Literally. Yeah.

Phil 10:11

Yeah. So I I think small small town is probably fine. That sounds awesome. As long as I'm thinking like close enough walking distance to go get groceries.

Sunnie 10:21

That's yeah, that's kind of my thing. I feel like I would still choose the tiny coastal town.

Tally 10:25

That's a nice way to look at it, though. Like you can get to Charlottetown from anywhere though. You can or maybe anywhere.

Sunnie 10:31

Literally, like maybe an hour. Now we all live in the tiny coastal town, okay? Is your occupation Can we all live what?

Tally 10:44

Do we all live in the same one?

Sunnie 10:46

Negative. Oh wait, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. We all live in the same town.

Tally 10:50

Oh, there we go.

Sunnie 10:51

So nice. We have good neighbors. Um, okay. Anyways. Sorry. While we all live in this same tiny coastal town, are you a lobster fisherman? Or are you a potato farmer?

Tally 11:14

I would love to say potato farmer, but my black thumb would probably come back to bite me in the ass.

Phil 11:22

I mean, I'm going to sound awful here, but I'm going with the farm just because I'd rather have the farmland than the money hole that is owning and having to look after a boat.

Sunnie 11:33

I I would agree with that. Phil is right. The boat is absolutely a money hole. So realistically, I feel like potato farmer is the move. Like, nothing against the lobster fishermen. They work their ass off. But yeah, potato farmer is is where it's gonna be. Like, I do not have a green thumb, but I will make those potatoes grow. I will love those potatoes so much because like potatoes are one of the best foods. Yeah, I'll read them a bedtime story, I'll sing to them everything. Best quality. So obviously, we've all picked the tiny coastal town. We're all potato farmers randomly on the coast. Um now, if you have to go anywhere extra, are you using the ferry or the bridge for everything? For like driving, getting around.

Tally 12:33

Uh I I like bridges. I would take a bridge.

Phil 12:37

Yeah, I'd take the bridge just because you know you'd have to worry about delays and a long ferry ride, and you could probably drive most places quicker than you could by taking the ferry.

Sunnie 12:47

This is fair. I feel like I would also take the bridge only for the convenience. But at the same time, I want to be that person that I could just take the ferry all the time. But if I'm a potato farmer, that's not gonna happen. The next would you rather is eat nothing but seafood for the rest of your life, plus like veggies and carbs like potatoes, rice, pasta, whatever you feel like. Or never eat seafood again.

Tally 13:17

Depends on what my super specific sushi is classified as seafood or not.

Sunnie 13:23

I would say yes.

Tally 13:28

I almost got some tonight. Uh so but wait, if I choose the seafood option, is that the only thing? Or I think you were saying you couldn't have sides with it.

Sunnie 13:40

Yeah, like you can you can have like um like potatoes or rice or pasta and like veggies, but you can't have any other type of meat for the rest of your life. It only can be seafood.

Tally 13:53

There you go, my chicken nuggets. Alright, I will have to say no, that will have to be chicken nuggets.

Phil 13:59

I mean, seafood, like how much mercury are you going to have with the seafood?

Sunnie 14:06

I knew that was coming too. Hey, there's some seafood that's lower in mercury than others. I do. There's not a lot of it, but you know.

Phil 14:16

So I definitely could see myself taking that option. However, all that murk- you know what? Screw it. I would go with the seafood only.

Sunnie 14:26

I'm with Phil. I think I'd I would take the seafood only. Only because I know that I could like have tuna or lobster or there's so many options. Mussels, oysters, uh, shrimp. There's there's so many things that I would eat. I would basically just be pescatarian for the rest of my life. I couldn't live without seafood ever again. We're the potato farmer. We technically live in the tiny coastal town. Now are we in a huge house more inland or tiny cottage right on the coast?

Tally 15:03

Oh, tiny cottage, tiny cottage. That is my dream. Fair, fair.

Phil 15:08

This is also my dream. I would go that way as well. It would be nice right up until you have to deal with with the Atlantic winter. I I would be more in the coast. Just because I don't want to have like a foot of ice coating everything.

Sunnie 15:21

This is fair. This is a very this is also a very good point. But pretty. Because honestly, PEI is so small that you kind of forget it's there. And I feel like that's just all of Canada. They're like, oh yeah, we have an island. Because we all just forget that.

Tally 16:10

Off to decide, we have some islands.

Sunnie 16:12

Yeah. So out in the internet wild today. I was playing a game, one of those games that you can just co-work and you can sit in there. And usually like there's people from everywhere that'll join. It's kind of like web fishing, but it's like way more chill. So what happened was I went in, sat down, I'm like, oh yeah, what's everybody working on? And one person's like, oh yeah, I've got homework. And then the other person's like, oh yeah, I'm I'm uh writing this thing for work and whatever. Like, oh, that's really cool. I'm like, I'm you know, writing episodes for the podcast. And they're like, oh, what's it about? Everything like that. And then I was talking to them, and I'm like, yeah, tonight's episode is like we're recording, is about PEI. The one person pipes up and goes, shut up. PEI mentioned, I'm from there. I was like, there's no way that the day of I run into somebody from PEI that I can actually ask questions. So that was wild.

Phil 17:20

You didn't invite them to the podcast?

Sunnie 17:22

I was going to, and then they left, and I was like, what do I do now? I I friend requested them. I friend requested them. I thought I was like, I'll friend request them. If I see them, I'll be like, yo, hop on the podcast. I'd love to have you as a guest. Like, I want to know more about PEI. And I feel like that it would have been so interesting.

Tally 17:46

Oh my goodness. I just did every time before a podcast day, you have to go out and search for them in the internet wild.

unknown 17:52

I do.

Sunnie 17:52

I need to go out in the wild and just be like, hey, who here's from Canada? Which province are you from? Just go into all the chat rooms in one day. Easy. Okay. But I did get some really good, like, true or false questions.

unknown 18:06

Okay.

Sunnie 18:07

And I got some information that I'm going to use for future podcasts. So I'm like, this is fucking cool. Like, I'm very excited about this.

Tally 18:15

I'm ready. I'm ready.

Sunnie 18:17

Alright. So don't overthink it. Go with your gut. PEI is the smallest province in Canada.

Phil 18:25

True.

Tally 18:28

I want to say true only because some of the comments you made.

Sunnie 18:32

Yeah, only a little bit, you know, just a few of the comments that I made. Um, yeah, true, it is the smallest. Although it is not the smallest population. Who is the smallest population? None of it. And then PEI actually, I think, has the most dense population for how small it is. I think it was around 153,000 people who live on the island.

Tally 18:57

Proportional to the square feet, is that what you're saying? Yeah. Gotcha.

Sunnie 19:01

Yeah, lots of people. The entire island is only one city.

Phil 19:08

That has to be false. I'll also say false.

Sunnie 19:13

Also false? Can't trick you guys. Too smart. Smart cookies. So yes, it is false. Although you can drive across it in one day, it does have multiple towns and rural communities.

Phil 19:28

You know, that's kind of a horrific thought of just like D-E-I Mega City. Every inch of the like every inch of the province is covered by buildings and urban sprawl.

Sunnie 19:38

It's just like that's actually my worst nightmare. Yeah, Loki, my absolute worst nightmare. I would never visit. I would be too scared to go.

Tally 19:49

My brain went um the amount of fire numbers that would be required, like the amount of house or property numbers that would be required. Oh my god, you're right.

Sunnie 19:58

Oh, I would never be able to do dispatch for that. Holy shit. I didn't even think about that. Oh, I learned this one today. This one's a really cool one. The island has no bears on it. Just foxes and coyotes.

Phil 20:18

I don't think they're far enough north for bears.

Tally 20:21

Okay. When bears swim. Hmm. Yeah, the north thing's a good point. Okay, okay. Alright, he's not. I'll say I'll say false.

Sunnie 20:29

Okay, you're both going false. Oh, sorry. So so you guys are going true. Oh, okay. That it has no bears on it? Okay. You are correct.

Tally 20:42

Oh.

Sunnie 20:43

But it's not that bears were never there. It's that the island's last bear died of old age around 1927 to like 1935. So they have no bears because they were hunted. Um, and then the last few, they're just like, eh, they could just live it out. Basically.

Phil 21:07

We need to start a petition, bring bears back to PEI.

Sunnie 21:11

Negative. They wouldn't nah, they would hate it. I learned I think I said that earlier today. I was like, so what you're saying is next time I visit, I have to bring a bear with me. And they're just like, no, keep your bears. Uh we like being able to walk around, no problem. Like animals in general aren't really a huge thing there. So even just spotting foxes and coyotes is like wild. You can only get to PEI by the other provinces by ferry.

Tally 21:43

I feel like everywhere has an airport at this point.

Sunnie 21:47

B besides airport, besides airport. Oh. Like say you're in like New Brunswick or Nova Scotia or something, and you want to drive to PEI. Like you can't. Do that, you have to ferry.

Tally 22:01

Kind of yeah, they're they're all they're an island.

Phil 22:06

They have a bridge.

Sunnie 22:07

They do, in fact, have a bridge. So the Confederation Bridge connects it to New Brunswick. So you do have to go to New Brunswick if you want to take the bridge. Yes. Lobster fishing is one of PEI's major industries. True, okay. Yeah. True, true, okay. You are correct. It's one of PEI's major industries along with potatoes and tourism. Guambo combo right there.

Tally 22:46

Tourism is the lobsters and potatoes.

Sunnie 22:49

It's true. That's what that, yeah, that's what they go for. That's why tourism is so big. And honestly, like I get it. PE has red soil because of iron oxidation. True.

Tally 23:04

True. I'm trying to remember if you said that or not. I'm trying to remember.

Sunnie 23:10

It is true. The soil's high iron content actually gives it its distinct color and affects some of the potatoes that are there.

Tally 23:24

I think that's true. Or I've been bamboozled. My first instinct was true. I guess I'll stick with it.

unknown 23:31

Okay.

Phil 23:32

I'll also say true.

Sunnie 23:35

Okay. It is false. Oh.

Tally 23:39

So it was bamboozled.

Sunnie 23:42

Although it was completely inspired by real surroundings in PEI, she herself is a fictional character.

Phil 23:50

Wow. I could have I would assume that was based on somebody that they knew. That's what I thought.

Sunnie 23:56

I was like, it's gotta be based on somebody, but no, it was completely a fictional character. PEI experiences a very weird phenomenon which leaves a purple haze in the sky almost all year round.

Tally 24:11

Oh, that's so nice. I wanna say true. I want it to be true.

Sunnie 24:16

Do you maybe?

Tally 24:18

Depends. Is it a chemical-related problem?

Phil 24:22

They just have a load of green houses that are putting out purple like light that's like causing massive amounts of light pollution. Because there's a few places around here in Ontario that do that.

Sunnie 24:33

Okay, alright.

Phil 24:35

So we go true or false. I'll go, I'll go false. You didn't say anything about light pollution. It makes it sound like there's this phenomenon of a haze in the air.

Sunnie 24:46

Mm-hmm. Do you know how you were just talking about greenhouses?

Phil 24:50

Oh no, I talked myself out of it, didn't I?

Sunnie 24:53

You did. You talked yourself out of it when you should have been talking yourself into it, because it is true. Um, it's actually from the lights used for cannabis greenhouses. Because that is also a thing that is very highly grown there. Huh. Yes. I guess that is. Have y'all ever had that PEI weed? I have not. And I am a little scared too, if I'm being honest.

unknown 25:22

A little scared too.

Sunnie 25:23

The the the potatoes are so high in quality. How high quality is the weed gonna be? I'm I'm gonna be toasted. I'm gonna be on my ass.

Tally 25:31

Live on the wild side.

Sunnie 25:32

Negative. I am over 30. I no longer live on the wild side, and I try to avoid the wild side at all times. For risk of uh snapcrackle popping my ankles again.

Phil 25:49

If we're still on the topic of PEI, like Canada was kind of formed as an idea there with the Charlottetown Conference.

Tally 25:57

Yeah, that's right. What is the like what is the Charlottetown Conference?

Phil 26:02

Oh, in 1863, 1864, something like that, there was a big conference that was basically all the big politicians got together and they sort of discussed um the ideas around um confederation and basically like what was actually going to happen at versus regional and regional governments versus like the federal government, and it's kind of the reason why Canada is uh the way it is for like our provincial setup for like why the provinces have so much power versus like say the United States where the states can't really order the federal government around in terms of what's actually going to happen with the entirety of the country.

Sunnie 26:43

Yeah, it's it's honestly it's super interesting. So PEI joined the rest of Canada, uh being its seventh province at the time on July 1st, 1873.

Tally 26:58

They were adopted, I see.

Sunnie 27:00

They were. They're the adopted kid.

Phil 27:03

Congratulations, you're being rescued. Do not resist.

Sunnie 27:09

True or false. The red fox is Prince Edward Island's provincial animal. Oh, that'd be cute.

Phil 27:18

I'll say true. I like the sound of that.

Sunnie 27:20

It is in fact true. None of us are gardeners, right? Like none of us know plant names very well or anything. Nope. Okay, this might be fun. There is a specific type of orchid that was adopted as PEI's provincial flower in 1947. What is it called? Like, wrong answers only.

Tally 27:47

Tracheotomy.

Sunnie 27:50

That's wild. Okay, that's wild. Was not expecting that.

Phil 27:55

Potato flower.

Sunnie 27:58

Tracheotomy was not on my bingo card, I'm gonna be real. Um sorry, Phil, what did you say?

Phil 28:06

Oh, I said the potato flower.

Sunnie 28:09

Potato flower? That's a pretty good guess. Um, it's neither. Uh it's called the lady slipper. Oh. So obviously we're all part of the British Commonwealth. Did you know that PEI has an official Tartan?

Phil 28:26

What's a tartan? Tartan is like the pattern of the actual. It's the pattern. Yeah.

unknown 28:33

Yeah.

Sunnie 28:33

So like that's a kilt there. Um that I've said in chat. So each pattern, different colors, those types of things. So PEI actually has an official tartan.

Tally 28:48

I don't see why not.

Sunnie 28:50

Um the colors. Oh, even better. Perfect. So yes, this is um PEI's tartan. So the colors are all symbolic of the province. So the reddish brown represents the red soil, the green for the grass and the trees, the white is for the caps on the waves, and the yellow is for the sun.

Tally 29:12

That's very poetic of them. I like that. Yeah.

Sunnie 29:15

So Prince Edward Island is 224 kilometers long and six to sixty-four kilometers wide. So it only takes you about three hours without stopping to drive from one tip of the island to the other.

Phil 29:34

Prince Edward Island, gimbal run. Let's go. Let's go!

Tally 29:41

Yeah, like compared to living in Ontario, it's just so overwhelming trying to think of like trying to get anywhere.

Sunnie 29:47

Yeah. It's like, oh, well, I have to go visit my sister. She's literally like 10 to 11 hours away. You can't get there by car, you have to only go in by train. So it's like, how do you organize that? Like, what do you do? Whereas, you know, PEI, it's like, cool, it's been three hours. We saw the whole place. Where do you want to go see again? Like, no point in PEI is more than 16 kilometers from the sea. So the beach is only a short 15-minute drive from any point on the island.

Phil 30:21

No, it was inland point to PEI.

Sunnie 30:26

He wants to be the furthest away from the I'm gonna be the exact point of 15 minutes. Ooh, Prince Edward Island does not use oil, natural gas, or other fuels to produce electricity. Oh, what do they use?

Tally 30:44

What do they use?

Sunnie 30:45

So 99% of the power generated on PEI is from wind farms.

Tally 30:52

That would be the place to use it.

Sunnie 30:54

Like you're right on the Atlantic. That's like the perfect spot for it.

Tally 30:58

Use those oceans to their advantage.

Sunnie 31:00

Yeah, absolutely.

Tally 31:02

Oh, that's so cool.

Sunnie 31:04

Lobster season happens twice a year in PEI.

Tally 31:07

Uh, I would say hopefully two. Gives you more options. Yeah, okay.

Phil 31:16

Yeah, I also think true.

Sunnie 31:18

Yeah. So yeah, it occurs from May until June. And then again from mid-August to mid-October.

Tally 31:27

Wow.

Sunnie 31:28

That's a pretty long run.

Tally 31:30

That is. So what did they skip then? Sorry, what was in the middle?

Sunnie 31:33

So basically it kicks out July. And then half of August. Yeah, first half of August. And then it kicks out the rest of October, November, December, January, February, March, April.

Tally 31:48

I imagine it's not safe enough in the winter.

Sunnie 31:51

I mean, I would assume not, but you know. Also, um, did you know that PEI actually has the highest sales tax in Canada? Take a guess at what it's at. Oh. So like here in Ontario, what is it, 13%? Yes. Yep. Okay. So guess where PEIs is?

Tally 32:12

I'll say 23. Lower.

unknown 32:16

Oh.

Phil 32:17

I was trying to go back. Say 15.

Sunnie 32:22

Are you Googling it?

Phil 32:24

No, why? What is it?

Sunnie 32:25

You're dead on. It's at 15%.

Phil 32:28

What? I was like, I'll say two higher than Ontario. That sounds reasonable.

Sunnie 32:35

Well, right on the money. Um, yeah, PEI as well as the rest of the Maritines actually charge the most amount of sales tax in the whole country. What do they get that we don't get? I know, that's what I want to know.

Phil 32:50

I'm nettled at 13% being our sales tax, but at the same time, like it being 15% is a lot nicer for like doing maths for when you have to like how much you need to do that.

Sunnie 33:03

That is a really good point. I don't like math to begin with, and I'm not good at math, but I feel like I do a lot better with math at 15% versus our 13.

Tally 33:12

Oh, for sure. Why use a prime why do we have to use a prime number?

Sunnie 33:17

Yeah, I don't I don't understand that. Ooh, take a guess at how many copies of Anna Green Gables have been sold. I'll give you a hint, it's in the millions.

Phil 33:28

17 million.

unknown 33:29

Okay.

Tally 33:31

Over 23 again.

Sunnie 33:34

Over 23, sorry?

Tally 33:36

I'll say 23, yeah.

Sunnie 33:39

Over 50 million copies. Wow.

Tally 33:42

Wow.

Sunnie 33:43

Have been sold.

Tally 33:45

It's all those elementary schools that are buying books.

Sunnie 33:49

Um Charlottetown Festival actually features an Anna Green Gables musical as well.

Tally 33:57

Oh, that's part of them. I'm sure people would love to do that.

Sunnie 34:00

Yeah, it's been running since 1965.

Phil 34:03

Wow. So it's making it. I wonder how long you would have to live there before you would get so sick of Anna Green Gables.

Sunnie 34:10

Like, I that's what I want to know. Like, I want to know if any PEI people are out there and they're just like, you know what? We're gonna make up a new folk tale and we're gonna tell everyone this, and everyone's gonna forget about Anna Green Gables. For the longest time, I thought that Pippi Longstocking and Anna Green Gables were the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

Yes, me too.

Sunnie 34:31

For so long. And I don't know, like, I feel like obviously that's a unanimous thing in here, but I don't know if that's also a thing for any other Canadians that are listening. Like, did you also think they were the same thing or not? But yeah, the Anna Green Gables musical has been running since 1965, and it is the longest-running musical in Canada. The musical first played at the Confederation Center for Arts. That's insane. You can visit the Anna Green Gables house.

Tally 35:02

But nobody lived there.

Sunnie 35:04

So the book, obviously that was published like 1908.

Phil 35:08

Wait, did did they po did they build a house based off of the book?

Sunnie 35:13

So it looks like it is. It looks like um it's a house that inspired the book.

Phil 35:22

Oh, okay. That's a bit better than them. Oh, we we have this really popular thing. Let's build a house for this.

Sunnie 35:27

Let's build a house for this. Yeah. So no, so the book, um, which was published in 1908, uh, is set specifically in PEI near Cavendish Beach. And you can now visit the house that inspired the book as it's now like an actual national historic site.

Tally 35:48

Get to go inside.

Sunnie 35:49

I don't know if you can go inside anymore. Oh, you can. Carefully restored to reflect the details of the novel, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the story setting. Inside, you can explore the rooms and furnishings that were described in the book, creating a space that feels like Anne could have actually lived there.

Tally 36:08

I would like Anne to sign my copy of Anne of Green Gables that I will obtain on my trip.

Sunnie 36:15

Guess how many lighthouses are on Prince Edward Island?

Tally 36:18

One for every single point around the base. Okay. Which would be 30.

Phil 36:26

Okay. I'll say like 40. That sounds about right. It's actually higher than both of those.

Sunnie 36:34

Higher. Higher.

Tally 36:35

So together or um, no, not quite.

Sunnie 36:41

So there are 63 lighthouses on PEI. However, 35 of those are still active to this day. All the other ones that aren't active anymore are marked as heritage uh lighthouses. Unfortunately, that's all I have for you today. I know this episode was a bit short for one of our guest episodes, especially, but I'd just genuinely like to say another huge thank you to our guests for joining me and humoring me by answering all those questions. Uh, even if you've never been to Prince Edward Island, hopefully this gives you some insight into how beautiful it is and to absolutely book a trip there to find out more. Before we go, we actually have some questionnaires that I'd like to answer from our listeners. Uh, so our first one comes from that guy, JC, and he asks, have locals reported any sightings of ghost ships or aberrations? So, JC, absolutely. Uh, but there's one particular ghost ship that's actually the most well known. It's called the ghost ship of Northumberland Strait. Its sightings like go back all the way to 1786, somewhere around there. Um, also, UFOs are regularly spotted there. I can't give you a whole lot more than that right now, since likely a few of these things are going to be featured in some upcoming episodes. Our next question is from Peter Taylor TX, and he asks, are there any fake stories locals tell to visitors that are fully made up just to mess with them? Sadly, Peter, uh, I couldn't find anything on this front. But a lot of people from PEI, or honestly the Maritimes in general, are usually too nice to mess with people instead of just straight up helping them and just getting them to move along. And our third question also comes from uh that guy, JC. And he asks, what's a folktale locals like to share with visitors about Prince Edward Island? So I'd probably say the most popular would be Anna Green Gables, which, as you guys heard in this episode, actually has a book. I'd highly recommend giving it a read. It is pretty good. Uh, we are usually forced to read it in elementary schools here, but yeah, I would still recommend it because it's a decent read. So just to let everyone know, we're taking a brief pause next week and switching from Monday afternoons to Wednesday mornings for our releases. Uh when I return, we'll be venturing into the Nahani Valley, where one of its most fearsome predators waits for us. This has been What Lurks North. Stay safe out there.