New London
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  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace

8555 CAVENDISH RD
Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
C0A 1M0


Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Green Gables Shore

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  • Northern parts of Lots 20 and 21 with P.O. 1827-1969 at Clifton in Lot 21. Named by Robert Clark 1773 for a port at French River in then Grenville Bay, now known as New London Bay.
  • New London Bay: Adjacent to Gulf of St. Lawrence, Lots 21 and 22. Named by Samuel Holland 1765 Grenville Bay for George Grenville (1712-1770) then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Holland also adds the secondary name as used by the French, Petite Havre. Bellin 1744 Havre Quiquibougat; Map 1750 R. quiquebougouet;
  • Map 1758 Kikibougat Harbr.; JHA 1832 has both Grenville Bay and Granville Bay; JHA 1836 New London Bay. In Micmac Kicheboogwek Booktaba, 'bay of shoals', or 'enclosed bay'.
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace is at 6461 junction of Routes 6 & 20. She was born in 1874 in a modest house in which exhibits replicate her wedding dress, scrapbooks and copies of her poems and stories.
  • Open mid-May-mid-Oct. Other Anne of Green Gables and Montgomery sites are at Cavendish.
  • With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011


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  • Maisie Adams

  • PEI's first female lighthouse keeper was Maisie Adams (1913- 2000).

    She didn't plan it that way. But when her husband died after a long battle with cancer when she was 30 years old, the Department of Transport decided Maisie might as well keep on tending the light at New London because she had been doing so for quite a while after her husband was unable to do the job.

    Besides, she had no other means of support. Claude Adams took over the light keeper job in 1940 when he was already ailing. Maisie then was 29 years old and had two children. Her third child was born a year later during a blackout, an order often given in those times to confuse enemy submarines.

    Maisie lived on at the lighthouse for about a year after Claude died, but then moved to a small house several kilometres away so it would be easier for her children to attend school. Each afternoon and morning she walked those several kilometres to light or extinguish the light.

    With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011



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