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Olympic hockey great Cassie Campbell-Pascal waves as she carries the Olympic torch into the grounds of the famous Green Gables house in a horse and buggy Sunday in Cavendish. The driver is Wayne Bernard and his horse Farmer and Anne is played by 12-year-old Laine Smith. The 2010 Winter Olympics torch was in the province on its cross-Canada journey and leaves for New Brunswick today. Guardian photo by Brian McInnis

CAVENDISH — The Green Gables house in Cavendish is famous the world over and Sunday another honour was added when it played host to the 2010 Winter Olympics torch that was carried in by Olympic hockey great Cassie Campbell-Pascal.
And that was almost topped because Sunday is the 135th birthday of L.M. Montgomery, the author of the Anne books, and it was also Campbell-Pascal’s birthday. She is the winner of two Olympic gold medals and a silver medal.
Campbell-Pascal rode onto the grounds of the house carrying the burning torch in the back seat of a horse-drawn buggy accompanied by driver Wayne Bernard and Anne Shirley, aka Laine Smith. After jumping off she jogged to the front of the Anne house where she lit the OIympic cauldron.
She then signed some autographs for the locals.
“Anytime you are part of something that is uniting the country, and the torch is a real strong symbol of  what the Olympics are, makes you feel good. I know that the Olympics are going to be in Vancouver, but I think it is really important that the torch and the flame go around the country, because not everyone is going to get to be in Vancouver for the Games, but they are going to feel a part of it now because of this event and that is an important thing to do — make people feel a part of the Games,” Campbell-Pascal said in an interview after the lighting.
She said the good part of the buggy ride was that she did not have to run with the torch.
“I didn’t have to run because I had Wayne Bernard on the wagon with me and Anne along with Wayne’s horse, Farmer, and it was perfect for me.”
Campbell-Pascal has a connection to the Island through her father, who was born and raised in Park Corner and is related to L.M. Montgomery by way of her great-great grandfather, who married the author’s mother’s sister and her father grew up in the house in Park Corner where she was married. She comes to Prince Edward Island every summer “and it is almost like a second home to me.”
The Green Gables house in Cavendish was the home of Montgomery’s elderly cousins and she based her stories on the house and its environs.