Chronology
| 1874 | Born Nov. 30, Clifton, Prince Edward Island |
| 1876 | Mother, Clara Macneill Montgomery dies of tuberculosis |
| 1883 | Wreck of the ship the Marco Polo in Cavendish |
| 1890-91 | Trip to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to visit L.M.M.'s father and new wife |
| 1893-94 | Attends Prince of Wales College and earns First Class Teacher's licence |
| 1894-95 | Teaches school in Bideford, PEI |
| 1895-96 | Attends Dalhousie University in Halifax |
| 1896-97 | Teaches in Belmont, PEI and becomes engaged to Edwin Simpson, a cousin |
| 1897-98 | Teaches in Lower Bedeque, PEI; falls in love with Herman Leard; breaks engagement to Simpson; Returns to Cavendish to live with Grandmother Macneill when Grandfather dies |
| 1901-02 | Works as newspaperwoman on Daily Echo in Halifax |
| 1902 | Begins a life-long correspondence with Ephraim Weber; becomes close friends with cousin Frede Campbell and with Cavendish teacher Nora Lefurgey |
| 1903 | Ewan Macdonald becomes Presbyterian minister in Cavendish; begins life-long correspondence with George Boyd MacMillan |
| 1906 | Secretly engaged to Ewan Macdonald, who leaves to study in Scotland where she meets MacMillan |
| 1908 | Publication of the best selling Anne of Green Gables |
| 1909 | Anne of Avonlea |
| 1910 | Kilmeny of the Orchard; Macdonald accepts parish in Leaskdale, Ontario; L.M.M. meets Earl and Lady Grey in September; in November travels to Boston to meet her publisher, L.C. Page |
| 1911 | The Story Girl; Grandmother Macneill dies; marries Ewan Macdonald at Park Corner on 5 July; honeymoons in Scotland and England for three months; home to Leaskdale, Ontario |
| 1912 | Chronicles of Avonlea; Chester Cameron born July 7th |
| 1913 | The Golden Road; trip to PEI |
| 1914 | First World War is declared; Hugh Alexander dies at birth on August 13th |
| 1915 | Anne of the Island; Ewan Stuart born October 7th |
| 1916 | The Watchman and Other Poems |
| 1917 | Anne's House of Dreams; polls her first vote |
| 1918 | First World War ends; L.M.M. suffers Spanish flu; goes to PEI to help nurse sick at Park Corner |
| 1919 | Frede Campbell Macfarlane dies of Spanish flu in Montreal; Ewan suffers a nervous breakdown; Rainbow Valley; LMM sells rights for Anne of Green Gables to Page who sells movie rights immediately |
| 1920 | Further Chronicles of Avonlea published illegally L.M.M. begins eight-year lawsuit with Page Co.; Rilla of Ingleside |
| 1922 | Car accident in Zephyr and Ewan is sued and refuses to pay; trip to Muskoka |
| 1923 | Emily of New Moon; L.M.M. first Canadian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in Britain |
| 1925 | Emily Climbs; Church Union vote in Canada |
| 1926 | The Blue Castle; move to Norval, Ontario |
| 1927 | Emily's Quest; presented to the Prince of Wales |
| 1928 | Nora Lefurgey Campbell reappears in L.M.M.'s life and lives in a Toronto flat |
| 1929 | Magic for Marigold; stock market crash affects L.M.M.'s finances |
| 1930 | Goes to Prince Albert to rekindle 1890's friendships |
| 1931 | A Tangled Web |
| 1933 | Pat of Silver Bush |
| 1934 | Chester and Luella's baby Luella is born; Courageous Women |
| 1935 | Mistress Pat; L.M.M. elected to Literary and Artistic Institute of France; moves to 210 Riverside Drive, Toronto ("Journey's End"); Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
| 1936 | Anne of Windy Poplars; Cavendish chosen as site for National Park on Prince Edward Island |
| 1937 | Green Gables site opens in Cavendish; Jane of Lantern Hill |
| 1939 | Anne of Ingleside; last visit to PEI |
| 1942 | Dies on 24 April; lies in state at Green Gables and is buried in Cavendish Cemetery (where Ewan Macdonald joins her one year later) |
Montgomery Conference 2014 -- Call for Proposals!
Planning is already underway for the next Montgomery Conference, "L.M. Montgomery and War". This eleventh biennial offering of the Institute's International Conference will take place at UPEI June 26th - 29th, 2014. Please note that the deadline for proposals has moved up this year, to June 15th, 2013.
To read the full call for proposals, click here.
To submit a proposal, please use our secure online submission form.
We look forward to seeing you at the Conference next summer!

