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The L.M. Montgomery Land Trust has received a donation of $250,000 from the estate of Prince Edward Island artist and land use activist Marc Gallant, advancing the cause of preserving The L.M. Montgomery Seashore in tribute to one of the world’s most beloved authors.

An accomplished photographer, author, artist, graphic designer and outspoken advocate for the protection of the Island’s precious coastal landscapes, Gallant died in 1994.

Hon. Marion Reid, co-chair of the Trust’s fund-raising campaign, marked the donation by noting that Marc Gallant was a man ahead of his time in wishing to preserve Island coastal landscapes. “Marc was as passionate about the beauty of Prince Edward Island as he was about his artistic endeavors,” said Marion Reid. “This important contribution is testament to that fact.”

The Winter 2009-2010 issue of the the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust Newsletter was mailed to members, donors and others on our mailing list in late December. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Trust office.

Gerald and Mary Cameron Morneau of Summerside have made a generous gift to the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust because they feel they have a duty as Islanders to protect our land, in whatever way they can.

“It’s the right thing to do,” says Mary Cameron Morneau, who grew up in Tignish and Summerside before marrying Gerald and moving off the Island in the mid 1960s. Gerald was an engineer and they moved 36 times to various large-scale construction sites before retiring and moving home to PEI.

“But almost every summer we came home here, back to the Island, and in 1978 we bought a farm out in Burlington. Because we were living in a construction site in northern Quebec, the children and I spent the summers here and that’s why the north shore area is so special to us. 

Like all registered charities, the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust can accept donations of securities, issue income tax receipts for their full value, and enable a generous tax credit that greatly reduces the cost of making the donation.

In 2006 the federal government eliminated the tax on capital gains for securities when they are donated to charity. Publicly traded securities include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, shares, and income trust units.

The Winter 2008 issue of the the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust Newsletter was mailed to members, donors and others on our mailing list in late December. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Trust office.

Former Land Trust Board member Carol Horne recently completed her Masters in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, “Measuring Landscape Preferences.”

This page will (eventually, as soon as we hear from Carol) contain a link to her thesis.

The Land Trust has begun to publish an occasional newsletter to update donors, members, supporters and the public on our activities. Our first issue, mailed in late summer of 2004, concerned the purchase of the "development rights" on a parcel of land at Park Corner. You can read this issue as a PDF file.