Montgomery as Prince Edward Island’s modern cultural ambassador, as well as an antidote to twenty-first century populist politics. “Today when the world is subject to so much divisiveness, this homage to Lucy Maud Montgomery is most timely and relevant.” 5 This was L.M. And that is a lesson we should all take to heart,” the princess remarked as she opened Montgomery Park. “The novels show us the importance of words, the power that rests in rich vocabulary, its potential to comfort and encourage but also to hurt. 4 It was, almost exclusively, an Anne-themed extravaganza of a visit. Montgomery Institute (so granted during her previous visit), she received a plate salvaged from the 1883 wreck of the Marco Polo, an event witnessed and later recalled by Montgomery in her journal. 3 Over the following two days the princess took in a performance of Anne of Green Gables: The Musical at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, helped inaugurate the new Montgomery Park and Green Gables visitor centre in Cavendish, and later participated in a ceremony at the University of Prince Edward Island where, as patron of the L.M. Officially, the princess had arrived to commemorate ninety years of diplomatic relations between Canada and Japan, Canada’s legation in Tokyo having officially opened on Canada Day, 1929. On 27 August, Princess Takamado of the Japanese royal family flew into Charlottetown for the second time in fifteen years.
In the summer of 2019, Prince Edward Island played host to royalty.
Mary Baine Campbell, The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (2002) 2 Introduction “A text that generically proffers itself as ‘true,’ as a representation of unaltered ‘reality,’ makes a perfect test case for analytical work that tries to posit or explain the fundamental fictionality of all representation.”
Montgomery, Selected Journals (23 September 1937) 1
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