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This pioneer village is located just outside of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Pickering Museum Village has been used in the filming of Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea, Lantern Hill, Happy Christmas Miss King, and is currently one of the sets for the television series Little Men (based on Louisa May Alcott's books). The village is open from May to December. For more information, call 905-683-8401. www.cityofpickering.com/museum/

Source: The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle, No. 28, Summer 1999.

All Photos and text by Ben Jansen. Ben Jansen's photos have been published in both The Avonlea Traditions Chronicle and The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album.

Cole House (left) was used in Anne of Green Gables to represent Moody Spurgeon's home. In Lantern Hill, it was the home of Jim the Post, where Jane's friend Jody was mistreated. In both of these productions, it was painted white with green trim. In Road to Avonlea, it was Angus and Mrs. McCorkadale's home in "Aunt Janet Rebels", and a farmhouse in Happy Christmas Miss King.

Collin's House (right) was used in the Avonlea episode "Aunt Janet Rebels" as Bill MacNeil's home. It can also be seen in the scene from Happy Christmas Miss King when Alec is delivering a food basket to Mrs. MacGuire.

The Log House to the left was Mrs. MacGuire's home in the television movie Happy Christmas Miss King. It was visible in the scene where Alec King delivers a food basket and learns from Mrs. MacGuire the sad news about her boys.

Right: The Blacksmith Shop (foreground) depicted Moody Spurgeon's farm in Anne of Green Gables and can be seen in the background during Mr. Phillips' departure. The General Store (in background to the right) was used as a police station in the Avonlea episode "Aunt Janet Rebels" and both the exterior and interior were used as the Avonlea General Store in Happy Christmas Miss King.

The interior and exterior of the Bible Christian Church (left) was used as the Bright River Public School in Lantern Hill. In Road to Avonlea episodes such as "Aunt Janet Rebels" this building (again, both inside and out) also became one of the Avonlea Town Halls.

A back view of the Cole House (right) shows where Anne walked the ridgepole of Moody Spurgeon's house in Anne of Green Gables.

Oddfellows Hall (right) was used in Anne of Green Gables as the Carmody Town Hall, where Anne attends her first ball at Christmas. The hall (both exterior and interior) was the Avonlea Town Hall in Happy Christmas Miss King as well as in several Road to Avonlea episodes such as "The Materializing of Duncan" and "Felicity's Challenge."

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