The Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario (LMMSO) is a charitable organization whose volunteers fundraise to lovingly maintain the buildings and contents of the Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site to further educate the public on the life of L.M. Montgomery. The site consists of the Historic Leaskdale Church and the Leaskdale Manse, the first Ontario home of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables.

In 1911, L.M. Montgomery moved to Leaskdale, a prosperous farming community north of Uxbridge, soon after marrying Reverend Ewan Macdonald. He was a Prince Edward Islander who had become the community’s Presbyterian minister one year earlier. The Leaskdale Manse was the first home the author could call her own. Montgomery lived at the Manse for 15 years and raised 2 sons, Chester and Stuart. It was here she wrote 11 of her 22 books, including a book of poetry.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George in 1935.  She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Letters of England, a member of the Canadian Author’s Association, the Canadian Women’s Press Club, and the Literary and Artistic Institute of France, which presented her with a silver medal for her literary style.