When the novel Anne of Green Gables was first published in 1908, most people could only dream of visiting its magical setting. As the book became popular around the world, it’s likely that many readers had no idea where Prince Edward Island was. They may have even wondered, “Is it a real place?” Today, millions of the book’s fans have made the trip to PEI and discovered the land that captivated Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s stories. And for those who just can’t get enough of their favourite red-headed girl, or the woman who created her, there are Anne-related attractions all over the Island.

In Cavendish, you’ll find Green Gables Heritage Place, Avonlea Village, and Montgomery’s Homestead, where the writer’s descendants still live. Lower Bedeque is home to the schoolhouse where the author taught, and in July there’s the L.M. Montgomery Festival. If you love Anne, you too will feel right at home on her Island.

Anne of Green Gables - Canada’s best-loved family musical returns once again to the stage at this summer’s Charlottetown Festival. Anne of Green Gables -The Musical™ is the original musical adapted from the novel  "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It has been running every year at the Charlottetown Confederation Centre of the Arts since 1965. Anne & Gilbert, The Musical, the internationally celebrated musical about Anne of Green Gables in love is back on stage in Summerside.

If she were alive today, author Lucy Maud. Montgomery would be overjoyed by the continuing interest in her most famous work, Anne of Green Gables. The novel has fans from all around the world, and has generated widespread curiosity about the places Montgomery lived in and wrote about.