Tea with the Grandmothers in Cavendish

Charlottetown Guardian – September 1937

In September of 1937 the two Grandmothers – Myrtle McNeil Webb and Annie Ellice Laird Lowther host a tea for the girls – at Green Gables – the first year the Webb home is a National Park. Ina and Louise are the last tourists of the first year of Green Gables National Park. The sisters are only one and two years of age – we don’t have a photo of the occasion – the photo below is taken a few years later.

The two grandmothers are good friends. As you can see in the photo below taken many years earlier in 1905 at Myrtle’s wedding. The bride, a young Myrtle on the left, and her bridesmaid a young Ellice on the right . They wouldn’t have dreamed that someday they would both be grandmothers to the two girls above.

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