Experience the settings in all of Montgomery's books
by visiting the places she loved.
* Enjoy this virtual tour of PEI created for the online 2020 Montgomery conference on PEI - written and narrated by Carolyn Strom Collins, videography by Bernadeta Milewski: Youtube
* AND this page by Carolyn Strom Collins at the AnneManuscript.ca site
Discovering L.M. Montgomery and Anne in Cavendish - The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: (annemanuscript.ca)
See more at The Inspiring World of L.M. Montgomery - A Literary Tour,
Prince Edward Island Historic Places with ties to L.M. Montgomery, and
Prince Edward Island Tourism .
Find more information in each edition of The Shining Scroll.
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1874 Birthplace of L.M. Montgomery on Prince Edward Island.
1893 The home of her Grandfather Montgomery is in Park Corner and is no longer owned by the Montgomery family. More recently, it has been re-purposed as a private Inn, Montgomery Inn at Ingleside. Scroll down for more information about its history.
1875 - 1911 Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish Home Site is where Anne of Green Gables was written, in the old kitchen. This is LMM's childhood home, a place of a deep lifetime emotional connection for her, the beloved homestead of her Macneill grandparents. It was the site of The Story Girl orchard, near the Anne of Avonlea school and graveyard, and the center of her fictional communities. LM Montgomery Cavendish Home.
1894 Bideford Parsonage Museum is the house where Montgomery boarded as a teacher and wrote short stories. Photos.
1896 Montgomery taught in Belmont; the schoolhouse has been moved to Avonlea Village in Cavendish (as the well as the Long River Church near Park Corner where she worshipped).
1897 Lower Bedeque School is where Montgomery taught and fell in love with Herman Leard. The school has been moved to the Bedeque Musem, read more about it and the Leard family at http://www.bedequemuseum.ca/.
1900 North Rustico was the home of LMM's Woolner family relations and she visited several times. This is a beautiful place, don't miss it! Read more about it in The Shining Scroll 2019 (pp. 16-29).
1905 Green Gables and Parks Canada Page The Webb (David MacNeill) Homestead is where Montgomery's dear friends, Myrtle and Ernest Webb and their children lived. It was located across the road from the author's home (Alexander Macneill Homestead) in Cavendish. It is the place she loved to walk in Lover's Lane, in Balsam Hollow, and the Haunted Wood. Read about the Webb family HERE. She used the farm site as the setting for Anne of Green Gables, written in 1905-06 and published in 1908. Read Myrtle Webb's Green Gables diary: Becoming Green Gables.
1906 The White Sands Hotel (The Seaside Hotel) described in Anne of Green Gables was located in Rustico, PEI, not far from Montgomery's home - it burned down while the author was creating Anne.
1910 In 1910 Montgomery was a world-famous author and was invited to meet Lord Early Grey at the MacPhail Homestead; find out why this was a memorable event in The Shining Scroll October 2008.
1911 The Campbell Farm (Anne of Green Gables Museum) was Montgomery's happy "second home" by the spot she called The Lake of Shining Waters. It is where she was married and returned to stay on her Island visits. It was the home of her cousins and dearest friend and the setting for her Pat books, too. It is across the road from the home of her grandfather, Senator Montgomery.
1911 - 1926 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's Home in Leaskdale, Ontario. A must-see museum and event site.
1922 The Macdonald family took a wonderful Muskoka area vacation in Bala, Ontario. The Blue Castle was the result. The Bala Museum is full of LMM treasures. Read the original manuscript for the book: The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript (Nimbus Publishing, available May 2024).
1926 - 1935 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's Home in Norval, Ontario. There are upcoming plans for more Montgomery "must-sees" to add to the beautiful public garden. The Manse where Montgomery lived will be a museum, find more on the Facebook page of the L.M. Montgomery Heritage Society listed below.
1935 - 1942 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's last home was in Toronto in the Swansea neighborhood over- looking the Humber River.
1942 L.M. Montgomery's burial site in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. You can find out why her husband's name is spelled two different ways on her gravestone in The Shining Scroll 2023.
The Lake of Shining Waters is located between the Campbell Farm on the left, Grandfather Montgomery's farm on the right. Click on the photo of her letter to read about it.
* AND this page by Carolyn Strom Collins at the AnneManuscript.ca site
Discovering L.M. Montgomery and Anne in Cavendish - The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: (annemanuscript.ca)
See more at The Inspiring World of L.M. Montgomery - A Literary Tour,
Prince Edward Island Historic Places with ties to L.M. Montgomery, and
Prince Edward Island Tourism .
Find more information in each edition of The Shining Scroll.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1874 Birthplace of L.M. Montgomery on Prince Edward Island.
1893 The home of her Grandfather Montgomery is in Park Corner and is no longer owned by the Montgomery family. More recently, it has been re-purposed as a private Inn, Montgomery Inn at Ingleside. Scroll down for more information about its history.
1875 - 1911 Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish Home Site is where Anne of Green Gables was written, in the old kitchen. This is LMM's childhood home, a place of a deep lifetime emotional connection for her, the beloved homestead of her Macneill grandparents. It was the site of The Story Girl orchard, near the Anne of Avonlea school and graveyard, and the center of her fictional communities. LM Montgomery Cavendish Home.
1894 Bideford Parsonage Museum is the house where Montgomery boarded as a teacher and wrote short stories. Photos.
1896 Montgomery taught in Belmont; the schoolhouse has been moved to Avonlea Village in Cavendish (as the well as the Long River Church near Park Corner where she worshipped).
1897 Lower Bedeque School is where Montgomery taught and fell in love with Herman Leard. The school has been moved to the Bedeque Musem, read more about it and the Leard family at http://www.bedequemuseum.ca/.
1900 North Rustico was the home of LMM's Woolner family relations and she visited several times. This is a beautiful place, don't miss it! Read more about it in The Shining Scroll 2019 (pp. 16-29).
1905 Green Gables and Parks Canada Page The Webb (David MacNeill) Homestead is where Montgomery's dear friends, Myrtle and Ernest Webb and their children lived. It was located across the road from the author's home (Alexander Macneill Homestead) in Cavendish. It is the place she loved to walk in Lover's Lane, in Balsam Hollow, and the Haunted Wood. Read about the Webb family HERE. She used the farm site as the setting for Anne of Green Gables, written in 1905-06 and published in 1908. Read Myrtle Webb's Green Gables diary: Becoming Green Gables.
1906 The White Sands Hotel (The Seaside Hotel) described in Anne of Green Gables was located in Rustico, PEI, not far from Montgomery's home - it burned down while the author was creating Anne.
1910 In 1910 Montgomery was a world-famous author and was invited to meet Lord Early Grey at the MacPhail Homestead; find out why this was a memorable event in The Shining Scroll October 2008.
1911 The Campbell Farm (Anne of Green Gables Museum) was Montgomery's happy "second home" by the spot she called The Lake of Shining Waters. It is where she was married and returned to stay on her Island visits. It was the home of her cousins and dearest friend and the setting for her Pat books, too. It is across the road from the home of her grandfather, Senator Montgomery.
1911 - 1926 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's Home in Leaskdale, Ontario. A must-see museum and event site.
1922 The Macdonald family took a wonderful Muskoka area vacation in Bala, Ontario. The Blue Castle was the result. The Bala Museum is full of LMM treasures. Read the original manuscript for the book: The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript (Nimbus Publishing, available May 2024).
1926 - 1935 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's Home in Norval, Ontario. There are upcoming plans for more Montgomery "must-sees" to add to the beautiful public garden. The Manse where Montgomery lived will be a museum, find more on the Facebook page of the L.M. Montgomery Heritage Society listed below.
1935 - 1942 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's last home was in Toronto in the Swansea neighborhood over- looking the Humber River.
1942 L.M. Montgomery's burial site in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. You can find out why her husband's name is spelled two different ways on her gravestone in The Shining Scroll 2023.
The Lake of Shining Waters is located between the Campbell Farm on the left, Grandfather Montgomery's farm on the right. Click on the photo of her letter to read about it.
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L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish Home, Prince Edward Island.
Bideford Parsonage, Prince Edward Island.
The L.M. Montgomery Birthplace, Prince Edward Island.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario, Leaskdale, Ontario.
L.M Montgomery Heritage Society, Norval, Ontario.
Future L,M. Montgomery Museum and Literary Centre, Norval, Ontario.
Bala Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Bala, Ontario.
Heirs of L.M. Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery Online, research and resource.
L.M. Montgomery Institute, Prince Edward Island.
L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish Home, Prince Edward Island.
Bideford Parsonage, Prince Edward Island.
The L.M. Montgomery Birthplace, Prince Edward Island.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario, Leaskdale, Ontario.
L.M Montgomery Heritage Society, Norval, Ontario.
Future L,M. Montgomery Museum and Literary Centre, Norval, Ontario.
Bala Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Bala, Ontario.
Heirs of L.M. Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery Online, research and resource.
About the Montgomery Home - Carolyn Strom Collins
Maud Montgomery spent many happy times in this home with her father, Hugh John, who was born on this property, and her grandfather Senator Donald Montgomery, as well as her aunts, uncles, and cousins. This is the home where she discovered the green-and-white china dogs called "Gog" and "Magog" that she eventually wrote into the "Anne" series. Other items in the house were written into her books and stories, too: the Rosebud Tea Set (Anne of Green Gables), the Townsend Clock (the "Anne" books and The Story Girl), the China Fruit Basket (The Story Girl) and more. This is also the home she left from to go to western Canada in August 1890. Her much-loved Grandfather Montgomery was to escort her to Prince Albert to live with her father and his new family there. In Kensington, a few miles from Park Corner, they met the special train transporting the Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald who invited them to ride with him and Mrs. Macdonald to Summerside and join in the festivities there in his honour.
Maud was sixteen years old -- this was her first train ride and her first time to be away from the Island, which was exciting enough, but to meet the great Prime Minister at the same time was a never-to-be forgotten experience. This is also the home she returned to the next year when she came back from Prince Albert.
"Ingleside" was for many years the Montgomery family farm; later Mrs. Heath Montgomery opened it for summer visitors as a bed-and-breakfast. In 1993, Robert Montgomery (the Senator's great-grandson and Maud's cousin) and his family decided the home would be of interest to L. M. Montgomery fans as well as visitors interested in the Island's heritage homes and the Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum was opened. Hundreds of visitors from all over the world came to the Museum to see first-hand one of the most significant homes associated with Montgomery and her works. Today the property is privately owned.
Maud Montgomery spent many happy times in this home with her father, Hugh John, who was born on this property, and her grandfather Senator Donald Montgomery, as well as her aunts, uncles, and cousins. This is the home where she discovered the green-and-white china dogs called "Gog" and "Magog" that she eventually wrote into the "Anne" series. Other items in the house were written into her books and stories, too: the Rosebud Tea Set (Anne of Green Gables), the Townsend Clock (the "Anne" books and The Story Girl), the China Fruit Basket (The Story Girl) and more. This is also the home she left from to go to western Canada in August 1890. Her much-loved Grandfather Montgomery was to escort her to Prince Albert to live with her father and his new family there. In Kensington, a few miles from Park Corner, they met the special train transporting the Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald who invited them to ride with him and Mrs. Macdonald to Summerside and join in the festivities there in his honour.
Maud was sixteen years old -- this was her first train ride and her first time to be away from the Island, which was exciting enough, but to meet the great Prime Minister at the same time was a never-to-be forgotten experience. This is also the home she returned to the next year when she came back from Prince Albert.
"Ingleside" was for many years the Montgomery family farm; later Mrs. Heath Montgomery opened it for summer visitors as a bed-and-breakfast. In 1993, Robert Montgomery (the Senator's great-grandson and Maud's cousin) and his family decided the home would be of interest to L. M. Montgomery fans as well as visitors interested in the Island's heritage homes and the Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum was opened. Hundreds of visitors from all over the world came to the Museum to see first-hand one of the most significant homes associated with Montgomery and her works. Today the property is privately owned.