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A self-guided audio walking tour of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish on Prince Edward Island, about three kilometres on trails and the roadside, with the dunes and beach of the national park a further walk or a short drive away. It starts at Green Gables House, the farmhouse of David and Margaret Macneill, Montgomery's cousins, built in stages from 1830, which people began to visit after Anne of Green Gables was published in 1908. From there it follows Lover's Lane, once a cow path from the barnyard to the pastures, and the Haunted Wood Trail to Cavendish Cemetery, where Montgomery was buried in 1942. It goes on to the site of her grandparents' farm, where she lived from 1876 to 1911 and wrote Anne of Green Gables, now a stone cellar and a well, the Green Gables Post Office, a duplicate of the Macneill home where the post office operated from 1833 to 1913, and Cavendish United Church, where she played the organ from 1903 to 1911. It ends at Cavendish Beach and its dunes on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
8 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 8 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Green Gables House, Lover's Lane.
Haunted Wood Trail, Cavendish Cemetery and Montgomery's Grave, Site of L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish Home.
Green Gables Post Office, Cavendish United Church, Cavendish Beach and the Dunes.
The Macneill family's farmhouse, built in stages from 1830, that people began to seek out after Anne of Green Gables was published in 1908.
A cow path from the barnyard to the pastures that Montgomery found while exploring the woods, named, revisited and photographed.
The spruce woodland behind Green Gables that inspired Montgomery's fictional Haunted Wood, reached down steep stairs and over a wooden bridge.
Where Montgomery was brought for burial after her death in Ontario in 1942, at the crossing of Routes 6 and 13.
Her grandparents' farm, where she lived from 1876 to 1911 and wrote Anne of Green Gables; a stone cellar and a well remain.
The church built by the Presbyterian congregation in 1901, where Montgomery played the organ from 1903 to 1911.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 8 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 8 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Cavendish — Green Gables and L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
8 narration points, including Green Gables House, Lover's Lane, Haunted Wood Trail, Cavendish Cemetery and Montgomery's Grave and Site of L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish Home. That is about 10 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 8 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.