Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1963, page 13

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Furniture is steadily being accumulated for other rooms of the house. A home-made radle which had been stored in the woodshed i: a home in the district for most of the last undred years. will have a place in the parents‘ edroom. Nina Moore Jamieson‘s milking stool erves as a stand for a houseplant. Then there is the libraryâ€"about one hun- red and twenty volumes stored in a black aimed combination desk and bookcase in the arlor. Fifty of these books came from the i‘ apron estate with the proviso that they are 'i 0: to be sold or given away without the per- ‘t ission of a representative of the family. Most f the other books were collected for the ibrary by Women's Institutes with a great ' umber coming from Scuth Norfolk. They in- , 1 lude books by Nellie McCiung. Emily Mur- hy, Nina. Moore Jamieson and others. One are book in the collection is Queen Victoria‘s Journal 1848-1861. Another. "Wee Willie “ inkie,” donated by Mrs. Miller McLeod was ' ritten by "Marjorie Gordon and her Mother." :1 he Mother was Lady Aberdeen. the woman ‘ ho had so much to do with the founding of 1" Associated Country Women of the World nd for whom the A.C.W.W. scholarship was . amed. . Mrs. McLeod had once lived on a farm in he North West Territories and she explains in a note that came with the book that "life , n the Territories at that time was pretty grim. Lady Aberdeen, wife of the (iovernor eneral of Canada at that time. with her 'oncern for country women used to send par- / SUMMER 1963 The "library" stored tn a black painted combination desk and bookcase. Al the Icll is ct picture at Mrs. Headless, at the right a photograph at her mother. eels to the area." The book was in one ol’ the parcels. a book written moat)- tnr children of this frontier who could not get to \cltool in the wintertime. Too much cannot be said for the work ol‘ the local committee in charge of the homea stead: Mrs. John Charlton. Mrs. Harry Nixon and Mrs. Hunt. Their latest investment is a large coffee-maker. a large teapot. spoons llnki Foolutes ol interest in lhe girls' bedroom arc the roscrsprigqed wall paper, the spool bed wilh (rotltcl spread and pieced quill iron-I the Hunter family, the wash - stand with pilchcr and basin, and the slo'mvpipc drum lor belter heating at the room. This room was turn- ishcd by tho lnsli1utes cl Bran! County. 13

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