Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Leaskdale Manse

There are two plaques at this location.
Both can be seen on this page.

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2010

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Plaque Location

The Region of Durham
The Township of Uxbridge
In Leaskdale, on the east side of Durham Road 1
just south of Durham Road 13

Coordinates: N 44 12.185 W 79 09.638

Plaque Text

In this house the author of "Anne of Green Gables" lived for fifteen years, and here wrote eleven of her twenty-two novels, including "Anne of the Island" (1915) and "Anne's House of Dreams" (1916). Born in 1874 at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, she was educated at Charlottetown and Halifax. From 1898 to 1911 she lived at Cavendish, P. E. I., and there began her career as a novelist. In 1911 she married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian minister, and came with him to Leaksdale. They moved in 1926 to Norval, and nine years later to Toronto, where she died in 1942. Mrs. Macdonald was awarded the O.B.E. by King George V in 1935.

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2009

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Plaque Text

From 1911 to 1926, this Presbyterian manse was home to Lucy Maud Montgomery, the world-famous author whose writing career was launched in Prince Edward Island. Here at Leaskdale she began her role as a wife and mother, and penned 11 books, including sequels to Anne of Green Gables. She also continued to chronicle her own life in candid and colourful journals which were posthumously published. The Leaskdale diary entries portray the manse as a stage for the dreams of a demanding and productive part of her life, and provide important insights into her fiction and issues of the period.

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