Experience the settings in Montgomery's books
by visiting the places she loved.
LMM letter
Find more information in each edition of The Shining Scroll.
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
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1874 Birthplace of L.M. Montgomery on Prince Edward Island
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. It was the site of The Story Girl orchard, near the Anne of Avonlea school and graveyard, and the center of her fictional communities.
1894 Bideford Parsonage Museum is the house where Montgomery boarded as a teacher and wrote short stories. Photos.
1897 Lower Bedeque School 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/.
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 on 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.
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.
1911 The Campbell Farm 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
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.
1926 - 1935 L.M. Montgomery Macdonald's Home in Norval, Ontario. There are upcoming plans for more Montgomery "must-sees," including a stunning new garden. The Manse where Montgomery lived will be a museum, find more on the Facebook page of the LM 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.
More places: The Montgomery Inn at Ingleside (home of the author's grandfather, The Senator) |
Prince Edward Island Historic Places with ties to L.M. Montgomery | Prince Edward Island Tourism |
The Lake of Shining Waters: 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.
Lake of Shining Waters (Campbell's Pond)
(c) MCavert
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Humber River, postcard sent from Montgomery to her friend, George MacMillan.
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Senator (Grandfather) Montgomery's Home in Park Corner ["Ingleside"]
from here, proceed west to 4550 Route 20 and turn side to side with the < > for a beautiful view of The Lake of Shining Waters (you are standing on the bridge that LMM and her dear friend, Frede Campbell, walked together), then on to 4540 Route 20, the entrance to The Campbell Farm where LMM was married.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum, "Ingleside," restored as a country inn
(c) 2015
Read more in the The Shining Scroll 2015
The Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum, also known as "Ingleside" [the model for Anne and Gilbert's home on Prince Edward Island], has had a transfer of ownership from Robert Montgomery to his son, Paul. This magnificent property with its ancient lime trees and views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and LMM's Lake of Shining Waters has been in the Montgomery family for many generations. Paul and other siblings have summer homes in the woodland between the old house and the Lake of Shining Waters by the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Paul has restored and updated the home into a country inn and bed and breakfast property.
[Author Carolyn Strom Collins is the founder of the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society and worked at the Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum in Park Corner, PEI for a number of years. During the summer she lives near the Museum, overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence.]
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.
(c) 2015
Read more in the The Shining Scroll 2015
The Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum, also known as "Ingleside" [the model for Anne and Gilbert's home on Prince Edward Island], has had a transfer of ownership from Robert Montgomery to his son, Paul. This magnificent property with its ancient lime trees and views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and LMM's Lake of Shining Waters has been in the Montgomery family for many generations. Paul and other siblings have summer homes in the woodland between the old house and the Lake of Shining Waters by the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Paul has restored and updated the home into a country inn and bed and breakfast property.
[Author Carolyn Strom Collins is the founder of the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society and worked at the Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum in Park Corner, PEI for a number of years. During the summer she lives near the Museum, overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence.]
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.
