Springs Celebrated Artist ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Hark, I hear a robin calling!

List, the wind is from the south!

And the orchard-bloom is falling

Sweet as kisses on the mouth.

In the dreamy vale of beeches

Fair and faint is woven mist,

And the river's orient reaches

Are the palest amethyst.

Every limpid brook is singing

Of the lure of April days;

Every piney glen is ringing

With the maddest roundelays.

Come and let us seek together

Springtime lore of daffodils,

Giving to the golden weather

Greeting on the sun-warm hills."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Spring Song

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Nov. 1874 - 1942)

The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Maud's husband Rev. Ewen Macdonald was in charge of 2 churches:
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale, and St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Zephyr. Rev. Ewen Macdonald died in Toronto December 1943 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Maud's mother, Clara Woolner MacNeil died when Maud was 21 months old. Maud's father, Hugh Montgomery, married Maud's step-mother, Mary Anne McCrae in 1887. Mary Anne had attended high school in Uxbridge. Sir William Mackenzie of railroad fame was her uncle, and thus he became Maud's step-grand uncle.