Home (1926-1935) of Lucy-Maud Montgomery, her husband, Rev. Ewan Macdonald, and their sons Chester and Stuart.

ACO Halton Hills, backed by a PreservationWorks! report by heritage architect Chris Borgal, supported ex-Mayor Kathy Gastle’s campaign for purchase of the manse by the Heritage Foundation of Halton Hills and its becoming the Lucy Maud Montgomery Museum and Literary Heritage Centre.

ACO Halton Hills also requested local Planning Department intervene with developer to prevent destruction of pines described by Lucy-Maud Montgomery: “The trees are all bare now—the rainstorm today has stripped them—of all save a few lonely yellow leaves falling in autumn dusks. So Norval has lost much of its beauty. But the pines remain and I am consoled forthe going of the leaves by the fact that, now they are gone, I can see the pine grove on Russell’s hill again—lie in bed and look at it, a delicate, unreal, moonlit world—wake and see it talking to the sky against the fires of sunrise.”