Places on Demonstration notebook — Anne Shirley

Avonlea

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A farming village on Prince Edward Island, near the Gulf shore, invented by Montgomery. It has no pin on the map: it resembles several real places and is none of them.

Bright River

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The railway station eight miles from Green Gables where Anne waited to be collected. Invented, like Avonlea.

Charlottetown

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The Island’s capital, where Anne spent her year at Queen’s, and from whose harbour she sailed for the mainland.

Courcelette

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A village on the Somme, in France, taken by the Canadians in September 1916. Walter Blythe was killed there.

Four Winds Harbour

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The harbour on the Gulf shore where Anne and Gilbert set up their first house, within sight of Captain Jim’s light.

Glen St. Mary

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The village at the head of Four Winds Harbour where the Blythes lived at Ingleside for more than twenty years, and where a dog waited at the station through the whole of the war.

Kingsport

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The Nova Scotia city where Anne went to college at Redmond. Invented; it has often been compared to Halifax, and is not Halifax.