I used to burn about 10-11 cord of firewood every year. We put a ductless mini split in a few years ago and it has cut the wood consumption down by close to half.
Peggy's Cove is really nice. There was a plane crash there a while back. SwissAir 111. There was a rumor that there was 5 million in diamonds aboard but they've never been found.
And Crovash is right, Cape Breton is beautiful and so is PEI. Winter is for the faint of heart of heart though. The winter on '15 we got 550 cms of snow