Prince Edward Island is one of eastern Canada's maritime provinces, off New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The large island is marked by red-sand beaches, lighthouses, and fertile farmland, and is renowned for seafood like lobster and mussels.Charlottetown, the capital, is home to Victorian government buildings & the modern Confederation Centre of the Arts, with a theater and art gallery. Along with being affectionately nicknamed "Canada's Food Island," P.E.I. is best known as the setting of the novel “Anne of Green Gables.” Every summer, visitors flock here to step into the peaceful, storybook world that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery's fictional town of Avonlea.