Rural Routes Prince Edward Island

8555 CAVENDISH RD
Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
C0A 1M0

Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Green Gables Shore

Description From Owner:

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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Nearby:	Founds Mills, 3km Springbrook, 3km Lot 21, 3km Campbellton, 3km Clinton, 3km Long River, 4km Grahams Road, 4km McEwens Island, 4km Stanley Bridge, 4km Lot 20, 4km French River, 6km Devil's Punchbowl Provincial Park, 6km Granville, 5km Summerfield, 8km Springfield, 8km Bayview, 6km Margate, 6km	Park Corner, 8km South Granville, 8km Norboro, 8km Cavendish Beach, 7km Irishtown, 7km Burlington, 7km Pleasant Valley, 11km Millvale, 9km Emerald (Junction), 11km Breadalbane, 12km Elliotts, 12km Sea View, 10km Hope River, 9km French Village (Hunter River), 10km Kelvin, 10km St. Ann, 9km Lot 67, 13km	Spring Valley, 10km Lake of Shining Waters, 10km Lot 22, 11km Kensington, 10km Green Gables, 10km Toronto, 10km Mill Valley, 11km Glen Valley, 14km Fredericton, 13km Stanley Bridge, Hope River, Bayview, Cavendish and North Rustico, 11km Cavendish, 11km L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site of Canada, 11km Freetown, 13km Kelvin Grove, 12km Rose Valley, 16km Darnley, 13km

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