Reviews of L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site (Fruit Store)

John Fischer

Charming small site of L.M. Montgomery’s original homestead. We enjoyed it just as much as the museum, particularly because of the staff.

Julia Reeb

Interesting. Well maintained.

Tina Griswold

Had an excellent visit here, while it's small, it is part of the Anne of Green Gables journey, we walked over through the "haunted wood" path from Green Gables, and it was well worth it, great round trip experience! glad it was recommended to us! Even though there isn't much to "see", there is a LOT of scope for the imagination! This is history, folks! Don't have to see it to believe it! :-) The paths and signage give a quiet, peaceful view into the author's perspective and experience. We went to several souvenir shops in the area, but this one on site had a great representation of all the knick-nacks, but even better book selections (and all slightly cheaper!!) than the other gift shops in the area. Glad I shopped here! The employee at the shop was a wealth of information and wonderful at hospitality with each guest. He was a distant relative of L.M. Montgomery as well, a valuable asset!

Stacey Reviews

Awesome place if you are into history and/or Anne of Green Gables. It's beautiful. I highly recommend stopping in if you are in the area.

Nathan Bertrand

A great part of Canadian culture. It's a great way to spend the day

larry cooper

Prepare to be disappointed if you are expecting to see a second Green Gables. The only remains of the original homestead of Lucy Maud Montgomery's grandparents are the stone walls of the basement. It is a "hole in the ground.". But hey, it is what it is. It is the actual site where she resided with her grandparents. It's just that the actual building is missing. There are numerous interpretative panels along the path and at the site. The panels contain quotes from Maud's writing about her life here. People with limited mobility should take the path as you face the bookstore to get to the site.

Percy A Paris

This was an OK place to visit but I thought the awareness with respect to it being there was not adequate. In other words, street signage could be improved. I gave it a 3 only because there is not a great deal to do but in the world of education it certainly merits a 4.

Adam Garth Mason

I felt hustled at the end of a tour for more money ... Not described as well as it should be. Be ready to pay again ????????

David W. Vire

Very little to show or see.

James S

Gift shop and a hole that used to be a house. Some historical information on a few signs but not much else. Go down the road to the National park and get a better experience for the money.

Kristy McCoy

The new exhibit is phenomenal and this site is everything the readers of Anne of Green Gables hopes for! Don't forget to get a special postmark from the nearby post office!

Andrew Blake

Highly deceptive and unethical mode of operation. Avoid at all costs. They lure unsuspecting visitors in with unclear signage and then aggressively demand payment for having "toured the grounds." If you take one step past the sign, they will try to charge you. This place should be shut down.

Heath Gibson

A beautiful walk through the grounds of the property where Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up. This is a seperate (private) property to the National Parks site at 'Green Gables' and has a small extra fee. With the small fee to help keep the history of the site alive and maintain the beautiful grounds.

Todd Gardner

Very minimal, no home, just a foundation. Was nice seeing the foyndation of the authors actual home. The ground were beautiful. The bookstore very nice. Was worth paying the small fee just to hear the 5 minute history.

Stéphanie “Stephy”

(Translated) Beautiful! A must-see for fans of Anne's Green Gables! (Original) Très beau! À voir absolument pour les fans d'Anne la maison aux pignons verts !

Elizabeth Sexton

Steer clear. Be ready for a shakedown if you wander on to this site. I was literally chased by an overzealous book shop worker who insisted I pay for entering the grounds....still not sure what I paid for...a view of a field of grass? Scam!

Walter Johnston

Nice place

Rhonda West

A delightful little piece of Canada’s literary history is tucked away in a quiet road near Green Gables. Montgomery lived on this land, worked as a postmistress, and wrote her first two Anne books here. The staff provide an excellent oral history of the Lucy’s mother’s family. The walk around the house ruins provides valuable insight into this important place that provided inspiration to Montgomery’s imagination. The bookshop has all of Montgomery’s books and other texts that provide information about her life.

Steve Clay

If you want the full LMM and Green Gables experience, this is a must. This is a beautiful site and we were given a great bit of history by the employees, including some info that we did not hear at other locations. To us, it was very clear that this is a separate site from from Green Gables and the fee is so small ($4CAD) that I am shocked how miserly the other reviewers are.

Christopher Robinson-Keys

Fascinating walking the grounds that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables. Definitely worth dropping by to see when on Prince Edward Island.

Stephen Cheng

It's a nice National Park and the kids had a great time. It was sweet to see an actor playing Anne Shirley walk around the grounds and interacting the kids.

Chris Martin

It was nice, but, $12 for 2 people to walk around reading placards for 15 minutes is a bit steep

D H

walking trail picnic park book store museum

Denise Bruce Of Ingleside

Love that the Kitchen is back home ???? kind staff. Kind owners. Very loved. You will find peace when you are here...the same peace Maud Montgomery felt. Take a walk, enjoying your time while coming back to another era...feeling the love Maud felt for this place...the same place she wrote Anne of Green Gables while sitting in that very kitchen many moons ago.

Charles Coutu

Small quaint

Dianne Cozart

I love Cavendish and everything about it being a LLM fan. This was my second time to visit. Seeing the damage left behind from Dorian broke my heart as I drove from Charlottetown to see Montgomery Park. When I got there it was pouring rain. I got wet and didn't care. I had to see the statue up close. It touched my heart, especially LLM looking up with the rain falling. Seeing trees down and other damage in the park made me sad. BUT, any time spent in Cavendish is precious to me. Bless its citizens as they recover.

Daniel van Kesteren

Not yet fully open and renovations are being done, but a nice look into the author Lucy Maud Montgomery(sp?) .

Theresa Butler

Beautiful

Carl Smith

Dishonest business practices. If this place is really operated by L M Montgomery’s descendants (as another reviewer claimed), she is surely embarrassed by their behavior. They are essentially preying on people who follow signs onto their property to see a museum, only to try to then charge them for walking past a stone foundation en route. Turns out that old cellar was the “museum.”

Tamara Lua

Very interesting and pretty place to visit.

Amy Pharoah

Positively, you get to see the hole in the ground where she lived with the stone basement frame and stone steps, and you can see a well. They have a few medium sized boards to read along the "path". The scenery is ok. They have a gift shop too with a good number of Anne and PEI items. If you are a devout worshipper of Lucy Maud Montgomery, then you should make the pilgrimage. Negatively, it costs money to get very little. At the gift shop, the "tour girl" rambled off mechanically behind the gift shop counter a very short explanation of the grounds. They had no washrooms on site either! No people that were maintaining the grounds reached out to make the tiny area that you go to more interesting. Wow, ridiculous! We wouldn't have paid for that if we hadn't purchased it in a bundle with other activities. If you wander in from the Anne of Green Gables' Haunted forest path, you will see no signs warning that you have entered a new site that you need to pay for. Most people that don't know the area assume that it is a extension of the main Anne of Green Gables site that they have already paid for. You do have to cross a road to get there though. If you walk 2 steps out of L. M. Montgomery's gift shop and swing your head to the right turning slightly, then you will see the only place that indicates that you need to pay to get in. Also, if you walk straight ahead out of the gift shop, then you might not see any indication of your need to pay, and be walking through a field that looks like nothing, but you may have to pay for (like one Google reviewer said). They don't say anything in the bookstore either that you need to pay to look around the grounds.

Lizzie I

Nice place to walk around, lovely garden. The staff was very nice and chatty. Worth a stop for a look!!

Ellen Moore

This was our only stop related to Anne Of Green Gables and it was great. Quiet and authentic - run by the family of LM Montgomery. A great great great grandson of Lucy Maud's grandson gave us a 7 minute history of the homestead and stamped in her signature to the book we bought in the store.

Chantal Rochon

Loved it, very interesting to visit, disappointed that the house isn't there anymore but the base of the house is still there. Loved the fact that we could pay there to visit the setting of the house they filmed in...there is a 20 min walk in the woods where she would walk, to see it but on a nice day it was fun.

Gordon Raleigh

Excellent family run visitors centre