“I joked to a local that while PEI markets itself as the gentle province, based on the number of people we saw mowing the grass it really should be the province of ride-on lawn tractors. Rather than take offence, he just smiled and said, “We have the highest mower sales in the entire Maritimes.”
If you stay for more than a day or two, though, you soon begin to notice a few other things in the environment as well. On both the north and east tips of the island there are massive wind farms, and it turns out PEI has a laudable goal (especially for a small island with no hydro) of producing a third of its own electricity from renewable resources by 2015.”