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Mar

10

 

Jazz in Leaskdale – Friday, April 5 @ 7:30pm

 

Pianist Thomas Baker will be joined this evening by Larra Skye. In December 2005, Larra performed her first show at the famed Montreal Bistro in Toronto to a sold-out crowd. She has performed with some of the best of the best in Toronto’s jazz scene – including Jim Vivian, Barry Romberg and Bob Brough. Larra has had a lifetime of experiences that have led to her finding her unique voice as a musical storyteller, and also achieving success as a creative entrepreneur. Admission for this evening is by donation. Refreshments will be served.

Jan

31

 

Cosmos to celebrate ‘Anne’ author’s birth with regular

‘Nod to Maud’

The council of the Township of Uxbridge declared on Monday afternoon that 2024 is officially “Lucy Maud Montgomery 150.” Already it’s being touted as “the Year of Maud,” in recognition of the 150th birthday of one of Canada’s most beloved authors. Montgomery’s home in Leaskdale, where she lived for 15 years, is a National Historic Site.

The Cosmos will, in its own tribute, each week (space permitting) from now until Montgomery’s birthday on Nov. 30, offer readers a short excerpt from Montgomery’s own journals, written during her Leaskdale years. The journals, edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston of the University of Guelph, are published by Oxford University Press.

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, former lieutenant governor for Ontario, unveils a life-sized statue of Lucy Maud Montgomery at the Historic Leaskdale Church in June, 2015.

Lucy Maud Montgomery used the Uxbridge train station many times in later years on business trips to Toronto. But it was in September of 1911 that Montgomery and her new husband, Presbyterian minister Ewan Macdonald, disembarked here after a two-month honeymoon in England and Scotland. Here’s what she wrote in her journal about her first experience of Uxbridge:

“We got into New York on Friday morning in such a driving downpour of rain that we could not see anything. We travelled all night, getting to Toronto in the morning. At five we took the train for Uxbridge, our home station, and reached it at dark. Two or three of Mr. Macdonald’s friends met us, and it was nice to be welcomed. But I was dreadfully tired; it was a damp, murky autumn night, and when we started on our muddy seven-mile drive I felt discouraged, heartsick and homesick. The next time I went over that road it was glorious with October sunshine and crimson maples, with snug, prosperous farmsteads along it, and I thought it was a very pretty road indeed.”

Also watch for interesting facts about the author and her life in a series that highlights the current fundraising effort initiated by the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario.

Nov

20

 

Oct

26

 

LMMSO Fundraising Campaign 2023 Booklet

LMMSO Fundraising Campaign – Donations

Cheques made payable to the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society and mailed to:

Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario

P.O. Box 84, Leaskdale, ON    L0C 1C0

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Donate by e-transfer, using the e-mail address: [email protected]

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We thank you for your support!

Charity registration No. 859850034

 

Oct

18

 

Ted Barris

One of Maud’s characters notes that life is not a straight line, but a series of bends, all worth exploring. Ted Barris has invested his professional lifetime exploring the world around those bends. For fifty years he’s worked as a freelance journalist, broadcaster and author in Canada and the U.S. His writing has regularly appeared in the national press, as well as magazines as diverse as Air Force, esprit de corps and Zoomer. He has also worked as host/contributor for most CBC Radio current affairs programs, PBS in the U.S. and on TV Ontario. Ted Barris is the author of 20 bestselling, nonfiction books, most of them about Canadians in wartime. His book The Great Escape won the 2014 Libris Best Non-Fiction Book in Canada. His book Dam Busters received the RCAF Association NORAD Trophy in 2018. His 2019 book Rush to Danger was long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction in Canada. In 2011, Barris received the Minister of Veterans’ Affairs Commendation; in 2012 the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal; in 2022 the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Award, and in the same year, he was appointed Member of the Order of Canada.

Jennifer Carroll

Jennifer Carroll is a graduate of the inaugural year of the Canadore College Theatre Arts program in North Bay, Ontario. Upon graduation Jennifer moved to Dublin to live and work abroad as an actor, producer, writer and stage manager. She most enjoyed working with theatre companies focused on developing new, original work from young Irish writers. Her focus on dramaturgy and workshop production has informed much of her theatre career to date. Jennifer is also a stage manager and producer, most notably for the Watershed Shakespeare Company and its production of King Lear, starring the late David Fox, as well as producing for Ontario touring company Proscenium Club for the past 7 years. She has spent twelve years performing Maud of Leaskdale for the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario at the Historic Leaskdale Church, as well as touring the production around Ontario and the Maritimes. The show chronicles 15 years that the famed author lived in the picturesque Ontario countryside, recreating Maud’s life through her own words kept in detailed journals.

Mary Beth Cavert

Mary Beth Cavert, an independent Montgomery scholar, specializes in the personal, historical, and literary context of Montgomery’s kinship ties. Her research has been included in The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery, and she has been a contributing writer in L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys, The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery, and The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album. She publishes The Shining Scroll and the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society social media accounts and website. She has finished editing the complete correspondence from L.M.M.’ s to George B. MacMillan, L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Scotland, and is updating a manuscript of Montgomery’s book dedications, L.M. Montgomery’s Kindred Spirits. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies and a recipient of the 2020 L.M. Montgomery Institute Legacy Award.

Oct

04

 

On Friday, October 6th at 7:30 pm, Thomas Baker returns with his guest, Whitney Ross-Barris for an evening of Jazz in Leaskdale. Admission is by donation and refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

Aug

11

 

Please call 905-862-0808 to reserve tickets at the door. Tickets may be purchased online here. Dinner Theatre ticket orders will close Monday, Aug. 21 @ 4:30pm.

 

Jul

15

 

Jul

03

 

Jun

25

 

 In 2017, Rosalee was honoured to receive the title of “Heritage Ambassador” of the Helen Creighton Folklore Society.
For Canada 150, the LMMSO 
invited Rosalee to create one of her “Song Portraits” of our great Canadian literary giant L.M. Montgomery*. Rosalee’s Canada 150 song-cycle project: “Rosalee Sings Maud“, has been officially endorsed by the Heirs of L.M.Montgomery, Inc.

In 2018, Rosalee was invited to create a concert to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the L.M. Montgomery Institute during the L.M. Montgomery and Reading Conference. Rosalee returned to the Historic Leaskdale Church in 2022 to perform at the “Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery: Continuing Conversations” official Book Launch.

On July 12, Rosalee Peppard Lockyer will return with her vibrant entertainment to kick-off our Summer Luncheon Tea series. Tickets are $30 and include a 5-course luncheon tea. Please book early  to reserve your seating at 905-862-0808.

 
 

I cannot remember the time when I was not writing, or when I did not mean to be an author image

 

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery