L.M. Montgomery

The LMMI is managed by a UPEI faculty and staff committee, including ex-officio members and special (community/scholar) guests; every two years an outstanding Montgomery scholar is invited by the committee to select a conference theme and to oversee the academic integrity of the conference and a possible publication or project inspired by it. The LMMI reports to the UPEI Vice-President of Research, Robert Gilmour, who appoints the chair for a three-year term. Philip Smith is the current chair. The LMMI counts among its active Canadian celebrity supporters the Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, who was Canadian Patron while Governor General of Canada; and best-selling authors Jane Urquhart and Anne-Marie MacDonald; and Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan, who has served as International Patron of the LMMI since 2004. In addition to start-up and conference funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the LMMI has benefited from the generous support of the Macdonald Stewart Foundation. The LMMI has received financial support for special research and design projects from the Wanda Wyatt Foundation for the creation of the award-winning CD-ROM, The Bend in the Road; the Virtual Museum of Canada, for the online exhibition (in partnership with the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, the Lucy Maud Montgomery Birthplace, the University of Guelph Library, and the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery) Picturing a Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery's Scrapbooks and Book Covers (this exhibition was subsequently chosen as Canada's gift to Japan Expo in 2005 and was translated into Japanese by Canadian Heritage); Smart Communities and the Knowledge Economy Partnership, for workshops and school programs; Aliant Leadership Sponsor funds, for four years of support for multiple educational programs and lectures. The Friends of the LMMI (FLMMI), was founded to support the LMMI's collections and on-going work. Begun by L.M. Montgomery Literary Society in Minnesota, the FLMMI welcomes members from all over the world. Please click here for information about donation to the Friends. Thanks to private donors, such as the Montgomery Heirs and collectors, such as Dr. Donna Campbell (the Ryrie-Campbell Collection), the LMMI now has in the Robertson Library of UPEI the world's largest collection of Montgomery first editions, foreign editions, and periodicals containing Montgomery's published stories and poems. These items are being made digitally available. The LMMI publishes print-on-demand works and special art works, as well as special exhibitions, such as the Macdonald Collection and the Annes of the World Collection.