Anne of Green Gables

Avonlea is invented, but Montgomery built it from Cavendish on Prince Edward Island, where the farmhouse she had in mind is now the preserved Green Gables Heritage Place, the most visited place on the island. The bbox runs from the north-shore Cavendish landscape south to Charlottetown, the real capital where Anne sits her Queen's exams. The first book here set in Canada.

Matthew Cuthbert

Green Gables (Green Gables Heritage Place)

Ch. 1 · 1% through the novel

Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated.

The Cuthbert homestead sits at the far edge of the cleared land, tucked out of sight of the road, exactly where Matthew's shy father put it. Montgomery took the setting from the green-gabled farmhouse she knew at Cavendish; it is now the most visited place on Prince Edward Island.

explicit The novel's Green Gables stands in fictional Avonlea, but Montgomery drew it from her cousins' farmhouse at Cavendish, now preserved by Parks Canada as Green Gables Heritage Place at 8619 Route 6. The pin is the real house.

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