In the summer of 1883 a famous
clipper ship ran aground off the
coast of Prince Edward Island
near the home of a young girl
named Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Lucy Maude, who became one of Canada's most beloved writers,
wrote about the grand adventure
in her journals and reflected
on it years later in her notebooks.
The town of Cavendish and Lucy
Maude herself were transformed
by the event and the exciting
summer that followed.