paragraph_text: Patricia Hamilton (born 1938) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as ``Rachel Lynde ''in the television mini-series Anne of Green Gables, its sequels: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story, and Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, and several Anne of Green Gables related films (such as Road to Avonlea).

paragraph_text: The Ernest Green Story is a 1993 made-for-television movie which follows the true story of Ernest Green (Morris Chestnut) and eight other African-American high-school students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. The film was developed and executive produced by Carol Ann Abrams. Much of the movie was filmed on location at Central High School.

paragraph_text: Mattapax is a historic home located at Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story brick house, three bays wide, and one room deep, with flush brick chimneys at either end of a pitched gable roof built about 1760. In 1949 a restoration resulted in the construction of a brick wing to replace an earlier frame wing. Also on the property are a frame cottage, a large horse barn, and a frame wagon shed.

paragraph_text: Anne of Avonlea First edition Author Lucy Maud Montgomery Country Canada Language English Series Anne of Green Gables Genre Children's novel Publisher L.C. Page & Co. Publication date 1909 Preceded by Anne of Green Gables Followed by Anne of the Island

paragraph_text: Jonathan Crombie (October 12, 1966 -- April 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor and voice over artist, best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.

paragraph_text: The William Cook House is an historic house at 71 Appleton Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States of America. The 2.5 story brick house was built in 1877, and is distinctive as a transitional Stick style/Queen Anne building executed using a rare construction material (brick) for a residence in Cambridge. Queen Anne styling is evident in the varied massing and gables, and in the polychrome brick surface. It also has an extremely well-preserved Victorian interior.

paragraph_text: James and Fanny How House is a historic home located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a noted example of a Tudor Revival–style dwelling designed by local architect Harold L. Olmsted in 1924. It is composed of three sections: a -story cross-gabled front block, a 1-story gabled connecting link, and a 2-story gabled rear block with a small 1-story wing. It has a limestone ashlar and concrete foundation and painted stucco-covered exterior walls of brick and tile.

paragraph_text: Anne of Green Gables is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor. The film was based upon the novel of the same name by Lucy Maud Montgomery. By 1999, all prints of the film were believed to have been lost.

paragraph_text: Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; French: Île - du - Prince - Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands. Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population. It is part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, and became a British colony in the 1700s and was federated into Canada as a province in 1873. Its capital is Charlottetown. According to the 2016 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 142,907 residents.

paragraph_text: Raskens is a 1927 novel by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg. The story takes place in the 19th century and is about Gustav Rask, a peasant who becomes a soldier in the Swedish allotment system.

paragraph_text: Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian - American actress and voice artist best known to international audiences for her roles as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and two of its sequels and archive footage in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning. From 2013 to 2017, she starred as Catherine de 'Medici in the television series Reign.

paragraph_text: In the late 19th century, brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, both in their old age, decide to take on an orphan boy to help out around their ancestral farm of Green Gables, on the outskirts of the town of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island. When Matthew goes to pick the child up at the railway station, he finds not a boy, but a high - spirited and talkative girl, Anne Shirley. At first, the Cuthberts are inclined to send her back, particularly after Marilla's brooch goes missing, and Anne, in despair, runs away. The family reconciles and Anne settles in her new home. Upon starting school, Anne once again displays boundless enthusiasm which is nevertheless easily turned into despair when things go wrong, which they often do. Slowly, her ebullient nature wins over those around her.

paragraph_text: Rushmore Farm is a historic home located at Athens in Greene County, New York. It is a -story, six-bay-wide by two-bay-deep stone dwelling surmounted by a steep gable roof. It was built in two sections during the late 18th century and early 19th century and features an overlay of Greek Revival details. Also on the property is a contributing stone smokehouse.

paragraph_text: Anne of Green Gables First edition. Author Lucy Maud Montgomery Illustrator M.A. and W.A.J. Claus Country Written and set in Canada, published in the United States Language English Series Anne of Green Gables Genre Novel Published June 1908 (L.C. Page & Co.) Followed by Anne of Avonlea Text Anne of Green Gables at Wikisource

paragraph_text: The Rising Sun Inn is a historic home in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a mid- and late-18th-century -story frame house. The earlier section dates to about 1753 and is covered with a gable roof and features a brick gable end. In the late 18th century, a frame, one-room gambrel roof wing was added to the northwest gable end of the house. Since 1916, it has been used as the headquarters of the Ann Arundel Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

paragraph_text: Anne with an E is a Canadian drama television series based on the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and adapted by Emmy Award - winning writer and producer Moira Walley - Beckett. It airs on CBC Television in Canada, and elsewhere in the world it is available for streaming on Netflix. The first season consists of seven episodes, with Niki Caro directing the 90 - minute season premiere. The series premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC, the first season finale airing on April 30, 2017. The first season was titled simply Anne in Canada, while Netflix used Anne with an E. CBC adopted the Anne with an E name beginning in the second season.

paragraph_text: Thomas D. Kinzie House is a historic home located at Troutville, Botetourt County, Virginia. It was built between 1909 and 1911, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features a complex slate-covered hipped roof with projecting, pedimented gables, and a one-story wraparound porch. Also on the property are a contributing raised-face concrete block and frame spring house, a raised-face concrete block garage, two sheds and a large frame bank barn.

paragraph_text: Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about an orphan girl growing up in Canada. It is similar to the author's "Anne of Green Gables" series.

paragraph_text: The Deacon Daniel Green House is a historic house at 747 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, with a gable roof and clapboard siding. It was built early in the Federal period (1750-1785), and is one of a few surviving examples of a local architectural variant, three bays wide and four bays deep. The house was occupied by Deacon Daniel Green in 1785, who moved to South Reading (as Wakefield was then known), from Stoneham.

paragraph_text: Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11 - year - old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle - aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.

Question: When did the place where Anne of Green Gables took place become a province?
Answer: 1873