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Remembering Lucy Maud: Lucy Maud Montgomery's only surviving housekeeper recalls life with Canada's most famour Presbyterian author.

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From: Presbyterian Record
Date: 20001101
Author:Congram, John

Elsie Davidson claims "a lot written about Lucy Maud Montgomery is unadulterated trash." She should know, being the last surviving live-in housekeeper for the Macdonalds in Leaskdale, Ontario, and, for a few months, when they moved to Norval, Ontario. She remembers the family as "a nice couple to work for, just everyday people, not stuck-up."

Wilda Clark, whose home in Uxbridge is filled with Lucy Maud Montgomery memorabilia, relates that, in 1911, when Ewen Macdonald returned from Prince Edward Island with the announcement to prepare the manse for his new bride, "all the ...

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