Living on the ISLAND

If you think you live in a small town don’t get me started on the towns on the Island, we are all up in each other’s business and it doesn’t matter where you move on the Island its all the same. Are idea of a traffic jam is when we have a small line up of cars waiting to pass a tracker or road construction. We make plans two weeks ahead to go to Summerside, and our idea of a vacation is going to Charlottetown for the weekend. I never realized this till lately but we measure distance in hours, I don’t say I can go so many kilometers on a full tank of gas I say I can go six to eight hours, I have half a tank, oh I can go to Charlottetown and back.

We know all four seasons almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction, diving is also better in the winter since all the pot holes are filled with snow. We sleep with down comforters in the middle of the summer no matter how warm it is outside, we can also go from using Heat to AC in the same day, and our kids Halloween costumes fit over there snowsuits. For some reason people leave there cars running in the Canadian Tire parking lot, and none of them ever get stolen. We all have jumper cables in our trunks and even the girls know how to use them.

We think of everything as up West, down East, over across and out West. Everything can be fixed with WD40 and duct tape, and if it ain’t broke… we will probably break it. We think lingerie is tube socks, flannel pajamas, rubber boots, no bra and a t-shirt. It will never matter who we marry if we are from the Island and they are from the Island then you are most likely going to be related. Don't get me started on the fish plants, every second person you meet will tell you that they worked or work at a fish plant, and if they haven't worked at a fish plant then they are either a fishermen, or have worked on a farm at some point. But the real way you can tell that you’re from the Island is if you understood everything that I just wrote. 

La Petite France- a B&B in my home town Alberton

Good Way to Start Off

I would like to start off by saying that I am from Alberton, Prince Edward Island, CA. I have lived here my whole life and it is a beautiful place to live, I live in a town where you know almost everyone and if you don’t know them your parents will. I would like to let everyone know that yes Islanders or Maritimers do have accents all our own, I say Maritimers and not people from Atlantic Canada because Atlantic Canada includes Newfoundland and Labrador, and Newfoundlanders or “Newfies” have their own accent which is different from Maritimers. Maritimers are people from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, not all of us have a thick accent and not all of use the English Language incorrectly, but some of use do.

Now when talking to someone from the Maritimes don’t take them to seriously, we use a lot of sarcasm and it’s usually all in good fun. We seem to talk very fast and our train of thought changes in about two seconds, if you can get the drift of what we are talking about then good on ya, because half the time we don’t even have a clue about what we are saying is selves. We tend to use word incorrectly and usually these words are used very sarcastically, we sometimes even miss letter in words. Most of us talk with our hand, I don’t think it is weird to talk with your hands, I don’t really know anyone who doesn’t talk with their hands. Our Parents and Grandparents have always said of it’s the French in ya, that’s why you talk with your hands, I don’t know how true that is though.

Northport Range Light (Former), Alberton, Prince Edward Island... this is now the home of my Great Aunt and Uncle. I am blessed to live up the road from such a beautiful place.

"Giver"

So i finally got to telling ya's about some of our phrases or words we use, now trust me there are many more to come after this video about the stupid things we say but here is a little taste of it. So "Giver" and watch the video.