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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, now the home of the
Uxbridge-Scott Museum Curator, Allan McGillivray. 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.
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