The Bideford Parsonage Museum

A group of concerned residents saved a privately-owned home where twenty-year-old L.M. Montgomery boarded in 1894-95 while she taught at the one-room Bideford school, a short walk down the road from the house. From her large upstairs room in Reverend and Mrs. Estey's house, Montgomery could look out over Malpeque Bay. She wrote in her journals that she enjoyed her walks along the nearby Bideford shore. In 1999, the building was slated to be cut into pieces and transported to Cavendish, where it was to become part of a tourist village. A group of Bideford residents began a campaign to keep the house in its original location, and succeeded in doing so.

The house was built circa 1870 for Thomas H. Pope, an accountant and telegraph operator. Pope sold the house to the Methodist Church to use as their parsonage. In 1925, the house became a United Church Manse, and remained as such until 1972, when the house was sold as a private residence. In 1999, the home was purchased by the Tyne Valley and Area Development Corporation in partnership with the West Country Historical Society Inc. The West Country Historical Society began restoration of the building in order to open it to the public as the Bideford Parsonage Museum.

A stone-cairn monument was erected in 1977 on the ground where the No. 6 Bideford School once stood, the one-room school where L.M. Montgomery taught from 1894-95.

Bideford Parsonage Museum
West Country Historical Society Inc.
P.O. Box 11
Ellerslie, P.E.I. C0B 1J0
Telephone: (902) 831-2817

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