Donald Montgomery (January 19, 1808 – July 31, 1893) was a farmer and politician from

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. He represented Princetown and then

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in the

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from 1838 to 1874 as a

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member and served as a

member of the

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from 1873 until his death. Montgomery Manor in Park Corner, PEI, is where Donald Montgomery and his wife, Ann Murray raised their family. He was born in Fox Point, Princetown,

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, the son of Daniel Montgomery & Ann/Nancy Penman. Daniel or Donald Montgomery was a

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immigrant and long-time member of the provincial assembly. Montgomery was educated in Princetown. In 1835, he married Ann Murray and, in 1861, married Louisa Gall after the death of his first wife. He was also a member of the

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from 1862 to 1874. Montgomery was speaker for the Legislative Assembly from 1859 to 1862 and for the Legislative Council from 1863 to 1874. His granddaughter

Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with '' Anne of Green Gables''. She ...

wrote a series of books based on the island including ''Anne of Green Gables''.

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''A Cyclopædia of Canadian biography being chiefly men of the time ...'', GM Rose (1886)
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