About
forty miles from Glenholm is the town of Springhill. It was a mining town whose name was known throughout
the Maritime Provinces because of its two mining disasters and two fires in the
1950s. But there is another claim to
fame for this small town…Anne Murray.
Anne Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to
reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record
for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). She is often cited as the one who paved the
way for other international Canadian success stories such as Alanis Morissette,
Nelly Furtado, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, and Shania Twain. She is also the
first woman and the first Canadian to win "Album of the Year" at the Country
Music Association Awards for her 1984 album A Little Good News.
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| Anne Murray |
Anne has received four Grammys, a record 24 Junos,
three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three
Canadian Country Music Association Awards. She has been inducted into the
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, and The Songwriters
Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of
Stars in Nashville, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los
Angeles and on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.
A longtime golf enthusiast, Murray made history in October 2003 at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York, by becoming the first woman to score a hole-in-one on the 108-yard, par 3, 17th hole at the Kaluhyat Golf Club.
She is my favorite female singer: Elvis Presley
Anne helped get me my start in show business. I will never forget her: Jerry Seinfeld.
Singing with Anne is a dream. She is so good: Emmy Lou
Harris.
It was an honor and a privilege to sing with Anne Murray:
Nelly Furtado.
You Won’t See Me is the best cover I’ve heard of any
Beatles song: John Lennon.
Working with Anne on DUETS was the highlight of my life. Not my career but my life: Shania Twain.
Your music is that Little Good News we sure could use: Pres. George H. W. Bush.
Next stop is Cavendish, Prince Edwards Island (or P.E.I. as the locals say). To get there we took the Confederation
Bridge. The Confederation Bridge joins
the eastern Canadian provinces of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick,
making travel throughout the Maritimes easy and convenient. The curved, 12.9
kilometer (8 mile) long bridge is the longest in the world crossing ice-covered
water, and more than a decade after its construction, it endures as one of
Canada’s top engineering achievements of the 20th century. After four years of construction using crews
of more than five thousand local workers, the Confederation Bridge opened to
traffic on May 31, 1997, at a total construction cost of one billion dollars.
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| P.E.I. Lawnmower |
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| Marco Polo Land's Welcoming Committee |
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| Even the gas station at the main intersection is closed for the season |
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| View from campground with the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in back |
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| A bit of the country side |
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