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▶ Bobbie Orr never wore socks while playing hockey. ▶ Lucy Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island in 1874, growing up in Cavandish. When she wrote a book called “Anne of Green Gables” she used her hometown as its setting. The book was an immediate success upon publication in 1908, selling 19,000 copies in its first year. Today more than 50 million copies have been sold worldwide, and the farmstead that served as the setting for the fictional book receives over 125,000 visitors per year. ▶ Anne of Green Gables-The Musical is the longest running musical in Canada and possibly in the world. It’s been running in Charlottetown, PEI, since 1965. ▶ CBC’s Road to Avonlea (based on Lucy Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables stories) held the record as the most-watched Canadian TV series averaging 1.97 million viewers in the 1989-90 season. (It was surpassed by Canadian Idol in 2003). ▶ The Toronto Maple Leafs were originally called the Toronto St. Patricks.
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