About Catharine McAvity

Belleville was never home to this proud Maritimer. She simply entered the world where her young parents were briefly stationed on an assignment for the railway. She was born into the old Prince Edward Island clan of MacNeills from Stanley Bridge, the family that adopted a young Lucy Maud Montgomery. She married into the old New Brunswick business clan, the McAvitys of Saint John or, rather more importantly, Rothesay. Like so many, she rarely travelled or knew the world outside of the Maritimes until later in her life.
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Articles

Apart by Choice

Iconic Art Catalogue

Landscapes like Poems

Catharine Amelia MacNeill McAvity