Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables) Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables) Avonlea (;"ah-von-LEE") is a fictional community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel "Anne of Green Gables", following the adventures of Anne Shirley, as well as its sequels, and the television series "Road to Avonlea". 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. In Montgomery's works, Avonlea is located on the northern shore of Prince Edward Island on a small peninsula. Its primary industries are
Anne of Green Gables: The Musical when the Campbells (Norman and Elaine) visited Don Harron, and he gave them the book "Anne of Green Gables", suggesting that it would make a musical. The three prepared a musical version, which was broadcast in 1956 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a television movie. Mavor Moore, the founding artistic director of Charlottetown's Confederation Centre of the Arts, used a song from that Green Gables TV movie in the inaugural variety performance. Queen Elizabeth II was in the audience. A stage version was then written, with the premiere in 1965 at the Charlottetown Festival. The musical was originally directed