Prince Edward County is one of the beauty spots of Canada. There are few places in this Dominion which, taken altogether, can in any way compare with it. Here we have the combined attractions that go to make a locality desirable.

To summer tourists, perhaps the greatest charm of the county is its good roads. In these days of the motor car, good roads are one of the most desirable features of any district which has any pretentions as a summer resort, and there are few counties in Ontario, indeed, or perhaps none, that have better roads than Prince Edward.

Our county road system, in the course of some five or six years, has transformed roads that were formerly, in many seasons of the year, almost impassable, into splendid highways.

We soon become accustomed to a new order of things, and even to those who are old residents of the county, and were altogether familiar with the execrable roads of the past, the new era has become familiar, and the former things are almost forgotten. But in the minds of many there is a very vivid remembrance of the condition of some of the leading roads, such as the Belleville to Milford roads, or, in fact, any of the roads leading to the town of Picton, before the era of the county road system. And to those, who, like the writer, were in a greater or less degree responsible for the establishment of the county road system, there certainly should be a great satisfaction in considering the transformation that has been wrought.

While good roads are attractive to the tourist, they are especially useful to our own community and the farmer and merchant is alike benefited by their existence.

The transformation of the leading roads in Prince Edward took place at the same time as the evolution of the modern motor car and in this way the promoters of the system builded better than they knew, for the motor car today is not only extensively used by the tourist for tourist purposes, but is becoming the vehicle of the farmer and business and professional man of the town. With the roads that existed in Prince Edward County prior to the introduction of the county road system, the use of the motor car as it is today, during many seasons of the year would be absolutely impossible.

Prince Edward County has many other attractions to the summer tourist. Its peculiar geographical situation and contour give to many parts of it a very great charm. Of this fact the residents of the county are, most of them, in a general way aware; but to the greater part many of its beauty spots are unknown. Very few of the residents of the western part of the county are aware of the charm of Prinyer’s Cove, Cressy, Waupoos or Port Milford and of the many beautiful views, over the waters of the Bay of Quinte, South and Smith’s Bay and Lake Ontario, that are afforded from many points in these localities.

And again the residents of the eastern part of the county are unfamiliar with such beauty spots as Huycke’s Point, Pleasant Bay, Weller’s Bay and Consecon Lake, Twelve O’clock Point, the Rednerville Shore, Massassaga Point and other equally beautiful spots in the western end of the county. All of these points and many more that have not been mentioned are well worth visiting and should be familiar to every Prince Edwarder.

Much could be written of the points of interest in Prince Edward County, but in an article of this sort it is impossible to describe them. Of the summer resorts, there is none better situated than the village of Wellington, its residents claiming it to be “the coolest spot when the weather is hot,” and there is certainly some justice in their claim; but almost every spot along the many miles of the shore line of Prince Edward invites the summer tourist.

“They speak of foreign scenery grand
  And travel many a mile
To Scottish hills and English dells
  And Ireland’s emerald isle;

But ye who wander far and wide
  To seek for beauty rare
Just come to Quinte’s peaceful shores
And you will find it there!”