Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables)

For the television series known as Avonlea in Canada and the United States, see Road to Avonlea.

Avonlea (/ævɒnˈliː/; av-on-LEE) is a fictional community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, as well as its sequels, and the television series Road to Avonlea.

Green Gables Heritage Place, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Montgomery drew much of her inspiration for Avonlea from her childhood experiences in the late 19th century farming communities surrounding Cavendish, New Glasgow, New London, Hunter River, and Park Corner on Prince Edward Island.

In Montgomery's works, Avonlea is located on the northern shore of Prince Edward Island on a small peninsula.^[1] Its primary industries are farming and lobster fishing.^{[citation needed]} Neighbouring fictional communities include Carmody, White Sands (not to be confused with the modern White Sands, which is on the southern edge of Prince Edward Island), Grafton, Bright River, Newbridge, and Spencervale.^[1]

Further reading

• Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture, edited by Irene Gammel (University of Toronto Press, 2002)