(1972 booklet issued by the Women’s Institute, Springfield, P.E.I.; 2008 coin from Royal Canadian Mint, 100th Anniversary of Anne of Green Gables)
(1982 Oxford University Press book–recommended pictorial with Montgomery’s writing and illustrative photographs)
Born in P.E.I., Lucy Maude Montgomery (1874-1942) was and continues to be a major internationally-recognized children’s writer with her series of books about Anne of Green Gables, which originated in 1908. Hundreds of thousands of tourists annually still flock to Cavendish to visit ‘Anne’s home’–easily CanLit’s most famous landmark. A popular 1985 tv series has done much to immortalize both Anne and Montgomery.