Visit Anne of Green Gables’ hometown
Green Gables
Green Gables Heritage Place offers horse and buggy rides and interactions with the characters from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s best-selling novel. If you’re lucky, you might get to meet the imaginative redhead herself.
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Anne’s room is recreated in the main house at Green Gables Heritage Place.
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An interpreter playing as Anne of Green Gables gazes at the house that inspired the 1908 novel by the same name.
GO! Destination: Prince Edward Island, Canada
Green Gables Heritage Place: The Parks Canada site is located 18 miles from Charlottetown. Entrance fee is based on the time of year: In season, $7.80 adults and $3.90 children; shoulder season, $6.90 adults and $3.15 children; off season, $3.90 adults and $1.90 children, all in Canadian dollars. Click through to Green Gables Heritage Place at pc.gc.ca.
Prince Edward Island: For tourism information, visit tourismpei.com.
Travel tips: Passports required when traveling to Canada. U.S. dollar is at a favorable exchange rate.
INFOBOX: What to know about ‘Anne of Green Gables’
The characters: 11-year-old orphan Anne Shirley (That’s Anne with an ‘E’!) is adopted by middle-aged brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.
The setting: Matthew and Marilla live at Green Gables Farm in the small town of Cavendish on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
The story: Written before World War I, the young heroine captures the hearts of readers of all ages. When Anne is adopted to help on the farm, the plot thickens as the Matthew and Marilla had expected a young boy. Spoiler alert: Anne gets to stay. More than 50 million copies of the book have been sold.
The author: Raised on Prince Edward Island, Lucy Maud-Montgomery was recognized as a person of national historic significance by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada shortly after her death in 1942.
Posted: Monday, February 22, 2016 11:55 pm
The Daily Journal
A few years ago, Travel + Leisure magazine ranked Prince Edward Island as the Top Island in the Continental United States and Canada. Much credit for the honor gives a nod to the island’s affinity for history, a good meal and toe-tapping music. And, I suspect, to early 20th-century author, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and her novel, “Anne of Green Gables.”
When the best-seller was published in 1908, it was a curiosity. The story revolved around a young girl, Anne Shirley, when teenage novels were not high on any literary list.
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