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Island-Hop the
East Coast This Summer! by Kevin MacDonell April 29th, 1998 Sydney, N. S. - Visitors to Canada's East Coast will be able to island-hop starting June 24, the day a long-awaited hovercraft ferry service begins between the Iles de la Madeleine, Prince Edward Island, and Cheticamp on Cape Breton Island. Andre Bourque, president of Au Pays des Acadiens, announced recently that his company has bought a 76-seat, washroom-equipped hovercraft which will make daily crossings among the islands. The schedule for a round-trip, which would cost $99 plus tax, would see the hovercraft departing Rustico, P.E.I, at 9 a.m. for a two-hour crossing to the Iles de la Madeleine. It would land in Cheticamp at 1:30 p.m. and leave an hour later for the Iles de la Madeleine, and arrive back in Rustico at 7 p.m. Starting August 14, the company will add another trip between the islands and Shippegan, New Brunswick. The entire service will run until September 27. Au Pays des Acadiens also plans to use the hovercraft for seal observation packages during the winter. Development agencies on Cape Breton Island are also working on a plan to provide car-ferry service between Port Hood, Nova Scotia, and Souris, Prince Edward Island. They are concerned that, since the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking New Brunswick and P.E.I., visitors will cross and return via New Brunswick, bypassing Nova Scotia entirely. A car ferry at Port Hood, which would put visitors less than an hour away from the Cabot Trail, would encourage travellers to island-hop.
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