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1874 |
Born November 30, in Clifton, Prince Edward Island |
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1876 |
Montgomery’s mother, Clara Macneill Montgomery dies of tuberculosis |
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1883 |
Wreck of the ship the Marco Polo in Cavendish, Montgomery would eventually write about this. |
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1890-91 |
Trip to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to stay with her father and new wife, attends High School |
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1893-94 |
Attends Prince of Wales College and earns First Class Teacher's licence |
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1894-95 |
Teaches school in Bideford, PEI |
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1895-96 |
Attends Dalhousie University in Halifax |
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1896-97 |
Teaches in Belmont, PEI and becomes engaged to Edwin Simpson, a cousin |
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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 |
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1901-02 |
Works as newspaperwoman on the Daily Echo in Halifax |
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1902 |
Begins a lifelong correspondence with Ephraim Weber; becomes close friends with cousin Frede Campbell and with Cavendish teacher Nora Lefurgey |
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1903 |
Ewan Macdonald becomes Presbyterian minister in Cavendish; begins life-long correspondence with George Boyd MacMillan |
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1906 |
Secretly engaged to Ewan Macdonald, who leaves to study in Scotland. |
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1908 |
Publication of the best selling Anne of Green Gables |
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1909 |
Anne of Avonlea |
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1910 |
Kilmeny of the Orchard; Macdonald accepts parish in Leaskdale, Ontario; Montgomery meets Earl and Lady Grey in September; in November travels to Boston to meet her publisher, L.C. Page |
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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 |
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1912 |
Chronicles of Avonlea; Chester Cameron born July 7th |
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1913 |
The Golden Road; trip to PEI |
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1914 |
First World War is declared; Hugh Alexander dies at birth on August 13th |
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1915 |
Anne of the Island; Ewan Stuart born October 7th |
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1916 |
The Watchman and Other Poems |
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1917 |
Anne's House of Dreams; polls her first vote |
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1918 |
First World War ends; Montgomery goes to PEI to help nurse the sick at Park Corner |
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1919 |
Frede Campbell Macfarlane dies of Spanish flu in Montreal; Ewan suffers a nervous breakdown; Rainbow Valley; Montgomery sells rights for Anne of Green Gables to Page who sells movie rights immediately |
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1920 |
Further Chronicles of Avonlea published illegally; Montgomery begins eight-year lawsuit with Page Co.; Rilla of Ingleside |
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1922 |
Car accident in Zephyr where Ewan is sued and refuses to pay; trip to Muskoka |
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1923 |
Emily of New Moon; Montgomery first Canadian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in Britain |
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1925 |
Emily Climbs; Church Union vote in Canada |
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1926 |
The Blue Castle; moves to Norval, Ontario |
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1927 |
Emily's Quest; presented to the Prince of Wales |
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1928 |
Nora Lefurgey Campbell reappears in Montgomery life and lives in a Toronto flat |
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1929 |
Magic for Marigold; stock market crash affects Montgomery finances |
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1930 |
Goes to Prince Albert to rekindle 1890's friendships |
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1931 |
A Tangled Web |
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1933 |
Pat of Silver Bush |
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1934 |
Chester and Luella's baby Luella is born; Courageous Women |
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1935 |
Mistress Pat; Montgomery 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 |
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1936 |
Anne of Windy Poplars; Cavendish chosen as site for National Park on Prince Edward Island |
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1937 |
Green Gables site opens in Cavendish; Jane of Lantern Hill |
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1939 |
Anne of Ingleside; last visit to PEI |
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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) |