L.M. Montgomery Land Trust

Subway Restaurants of PEI are donating $45,000 to the Land Trust to further its cause. Irwin Dawson, left, president of Subway Restaurants on PEI, visited Park Corner this summer and presented Subway’s second installment of $15,000 to Peter Rukavina, chair of the LMM Trust. “We’re honored by Subway’s generous support, “said Rukavina. “It brings both a sense of partnership, and a responsibility to make the money achieve something. Thank you to Irwin Dawson for sharing our vision.”

Peter Rukavina, left, was installed as the new Chair of the LMM Land Trust this year. John Sylvester, right, held that role for several years, as well as being a long-serving director, and Peter recently presented John with a token of appreciation from the directors of the Land Trust.

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.

On Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2005 member of the Board of Directors of the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust met with Premier Pat Binns and member of Executive Council (Cabinet).

We met both to inform Cabinet of the work of the Trust, and to highlight an urgent priority: preserving land around the Cape Tryon lightout.

I have prepared the attached set of slides (as a PDF file) to accompany the oral presentation that Hon. Marion Reid (Land Trust President) and I delivered to Cabinet.