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Volume III of The Selected Journals of [L. M. Montgomery], edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, covers the period in which Maud accompanied her husband Rev. Ewan Macdonald to his two - point charge based in Norval, which means that he became responsible for both the Norval Presbyterian Church in downtown Norval and the Union Presbyterian Church in the country. The Macdonalds lived in the manse in Norval, and Maud taught Sunday school in both locations, along with performing the many other often tiresome (according to her journals) duties expected of a minister's wife. There are three items in the church of particular interest to Maud lovers. A banner on the wall reads "The Alexander Auxiliary Norval Presbyterian Church 1888 - 1988 Women's Missionary Society." [Lucy Maud Montgomery] worked for the society, and even served as Norval's president, but her journals suggest that she considered it to be less than fulfilling. After the service, I stroll west with the traffic along Highway 7 to the sole Montgomery shrine in town, the Norval public school. No longer used as a school, it is identified by a sign on the lawn as "Norval Community Centre, Halton Hills Rec & Parks Dept., Georgetown Day Care Centre." I'm confused by the three different geographic references, and since I have known this area all my life, I wonder what sense visitors will make of Norval, Halton Hills, and Georgetown., Source type: Electronic(1), http://rlproxy.upei.ca/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/215190129?accountid=14670