Becoming Green Gables Book Launch

Join us at the launch to find out more about the story of the family whose home inspired Anne of Green Gables and how that literary connection enriched – and upended – their lives.
In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as the inspiration for Anne of Green Gables, the novel written by Myrtle’s cousin Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Webbs welcomed visitors to “Green Gables”, making their home the heart of PEI’s tourist trade. In the 1930s the farm became the centrepiece of a new National Park, but the family continued to live there for another decade. Myrtle kept a diary from 1924, when she was a forty-year-old homemaker running a household of eight, until 1954, when she was no longer a resident in what was now the most famous house in Canada.