Anne of Green Gables MacDonald Montgomery Prince Edward Island

Anne!

Henry Homestead Family Cottage and Traditional Farm, 10024 Rte.#6,

Stanley Bridge, PEI CANADA C0A 1E0

Call us anytime at 902 886 3077 or Email Us at rhenry@pei.sympatico.ca

Anne

The cottage is located in the heart of ANNE of Green Gables and LM Montgomery country. The driveway to the cottage is the old Cavendish road which Lucy Maud would have used in traveling back and forth from her grandparents. There are many attractions for those interested in ANNE and the author...all very close by if you choose to stay with us.

LM Montgomery birthplace - 3 km away

LM Montgomery Cavendish home - 5 km

Anne of Green Gables Museum - 10 km

Green Gables house at the PEI National Park in Cavendish - 5 km

Avonlea village - 5 km

Charlottetown Festival featuring the Anne of Green Gables musical - 22 km

Chronology of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Life

Born November 30, 1874 in Clifton, Prince Edward Island.

Age

2 Mother Clara Macneill dies of tuberculosis. Her father left her in the care of her mother's parents, Alexander and Lucy Woolner Macneill of Cavendish.

19 Attends Prince of Wales College and earns First Class Teacher's licence

20 Attends Dalhousie University in Halifax

21 - 26 Teaches in Bideford, Belmont and Lower Bedeque, PEI

27 Works at the Daily Echo newspaper in Halifax

34 Publishes the best selling Anne of Green Gables

35 Publishes the best selling Anne of Avonlea

34 -65 Writes 20 books, all but one of which is based in PEI.

View original copies : http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/lmmi/exhibit-books.html

37 Marries Ewan MacDonald, Presbyterian Minister at parish in Leaskdale, Ontario.

38 First child Chester Cameron born July 7

41 Second Child Ewan Stuart born October 7

45 Sells rights for Anne of Green Gables to L.C. Page who immediately sells the movie rights.

65 Last work Anne of Ingleside published

68 Dies in Toronto April 24 and is buried at Cavendish, joined 1 year later by Ewan MacDonald.

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