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Montgomery, Lucy Maud
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1874-1942
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Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, PEI on November 30, 1874. Her mother died at an early age and she lived with her maternal grandparents growing up. She attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown to be a teacher, and taught in PEI to earn enough money to come to Dalhousie College (the Forrest Building) in 1895. She studied literature at Dal from 1895-1896 and during her time lived at the Halifax Ladies’ College. She also wrote many short stories for the Dalhousie Gazette during her time at Dal. Whether for financial or other reasons, she was only at Dalhousie for a year. She moved back to PEI after Dalhousie, to teach. She returned to Halifax in 1901 to work as a newspaper editor at the Daily Echo. During the late 1800s and early 1900s she was getting many stories published around North America. In 1908, she published Anne of Green Gables, her most popular book. The popularity of the Anne led to many other books in the series, and other series’ into the 1930s. She published 22 novels, over 500 short stories, an autobiography, and dozens of poems in her life. She later moved to Ontario with her family, and lived in Southern Ontario and Toronto until her death on April 24, 1942. She was buried in Cavendish, PEI. She received the Order of the British Empire in 1935, made a National Historic Person in Canada in 1943, and her Leaskdale, ON and Cavendish homes were both designated as National Historic Sites.
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Macneill, Murray (1877-1951)
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