Lucy Maud Montgomery National Historic Person (1874-1942)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables
© Library and Archives Canada / C-011299

Lucy Maud Montgomery was designated as a national historic person in 1943.

Historical importance: Novelist, writer of world-renowned "Anne of Green Gables" books set in Prince Edward Island.

Commemorative plaque: On brick cairn near Green Gables, Route 6, Cavendish, Prince Edward IslandFootnote 1

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

Internationally renowned author, Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in New London, Prince Edward Island. After her mother's death in 1876, she lived with her maternal grandparents in Cavendish until 1911, when she married and moved to Ontario. While residing in Cavendish she wrote her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908). A series of popular sequels and other successful novels followed, but the enduring fame of Lucy Maud Montgomery had been firmly established with her creation of Anne, one of the most lovable children in English fiction. She died in Toronto and is buried at Cavendish.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
English plaque inscription

 

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Lucy Maud Montgomery in Norval, Ontario, 1932
© M.O. Hammond fonds / Archives of Ontario / I0001762
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Lucy Maud Montgomery seated in front of her house, Norval, Ontario, 1932
© M.O. Hammond fonds / Archives of Ontario / I0001763

 

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Lucy Maud Montgomery seated at her desk, Norval, Ontario, 1932
© M.O. Hammond fonds / Archives of Ontario / I0023627

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