"This is the forest primeval." These are the first lines in H. W. Longfellow's famous poem, Evangeline. L.M. Montgomery's correspondent and friend, Arthur John Lockhart, loved this poem which was about his homeland in Nova Scotia. Montgomery and Lockhart shared a deep love of their birthplaces and a personal kinship to the land where they grew up in the Maritimes of Canada - Cavendish, Prince Edward Island and Lockhartville, in Nova Scotia., Source type: Print(0)
