CBC Books reports that Canadian actor Rachel McAdams will be voicing a new audiobook version of Anne of Green Gables.

Actress Rachel McAdams is the narrator of a new audiobook of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. The book will be released on audible.com on Nov. 22, 2016 ( Read more... )

CBC News' Deana Sumanac-Johnson reports on the selection of Irish-Canadian actor Anne McNulty as Anne in the upcoming CBC/Netflix series version of Anne of Green Gables.

For 14-year-old Amybeth McNulty, it's the role of a lifetime. She beat more than 1,800 girls from Canada and abroad to land the starring turn as Anne in the new CBC adaptation of ( Read more... )

The Lake of Shining Waters is an alternate name for Cavendish Beach's MacNeill's Pond, a fresh water pond separated from the Gulf by a single line of sand dunes and connected to it by a single stream. This alternate name comes from Anne of Green Gables, after a pond that Anne Shirley saw as Matthew Cuthbert took her to her new home at Green Gables ( Read more... )

The Long River Presbyterian Church, built in 1874 on the western end of the Island's North Shore for a Scottish Presbyterian community, would have decayed into ruin if not for the chance of L.M. Montgomery having attended service there on numerous occasions, when she was with her family in the area. The church was moved to Avonlea Village, where it ( Read more... )

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I visited Cavendish's Avonlea Village, an imagined recreation of the sort of late 19th century village centre that Anne Shirley would have lived in, on this trip. The entrance fee that had applied in past years was not in evidence on this trip, but the abundance of Anne-related merchandise--at this site, and at others--shows that Anne is still a ( Read more... )

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I'd always been curious to see Annekenstein. It was almost legendary in the 1990s--imagine, a long-running sketch comedy show that made fun of Anne of Green Gables! I do not joke when I say that some of my elders were disapproving of the idea ( Read more... )

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Thanks to my sister, I was able to get tickets to see Anne of Green Gables: The Musical last Tuesday. This showing will have been the fourth time I've seen the act that has been headlining the
Charlottetown Festival for the past 51 years, at least--I may have forgotten earlier performances ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Greg Quinn reports something I would be quite cool with.

“Anne of Green Gables” author Lucy Maud Montgomery is among 12 women who could be featured on a new Canadian bank note, the central bank said Friday ( Read more... )

This is bizarre. The CBC's Sara Fraser reports.


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