Charlottetown, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Tiny CHARLOTTETOWN , the administrative and business centre of PEI, is the most urbane spot on the island, its comfortable main streets – Grafton and Kent – hemmed in by leafy avenues of clapboard villas, the most opulent of which spread west of the centre towards Victoria Park . But although these well-disposed streets give the place a prosperous and sedate appearance, this is not the whole truth: Charlottetown has a relatively high rate of unemployment and you'll glimpse the poverty here and there, particularly in the abject stuff on show in its cheaper department stores – a contrast with … more »