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Special Programmes and Projects Editor’s Note: Will Public Relations Officers please read the article on page 16 of file Winter 1960 issue of Home and Country, for suggestions re- garding material for this page. A Gift to Mohawk Chapel UR INFORMATION on this accomplish- O ment was contributed by Mrs, L. E. Hur- rison, Chairman of Brant County Women‘s institute Rally and convener of the Chapel Win- tow project. The Mohawk Chapel on the Indian Reserve ear Brantford is of province-wide historical in- '-rest. It was the first Protestant Church in Onâ€" tI'IO and was built with the aid of a grant btained by Chief Joseph Brant from King George ‘I. In 1904 Edward VII made it a Royal Chapel. :e only Royal Chapel outside the British Isles. ‘1 I785 Mohawk Institute, a school for Indian lIIdl'el'l. was built CIOSe to the Chapel. In 1834 'sidential quarters were added. The present hool. built after the original building was de- royed by fire in 1912, accommodates 140 Indian ‘iildren and six teachers. In 1956 a committee was set up to work to- urd having the eight windows of the Chapel rc- need by stained glass windows. The president Sour Springs Women‘s Institute on the Reâ€" rve. Mrs. Sam Powless, was a member of this immittee and she appealed to Mrs Harrison to c if the Women's Institutes of Ontario might rovide a window. The result was that Archdea- in H. F. Appleyard, chairman of the window 'immittee, was invited to speak at the Brunt Junty Women‘s Institute Rally. giving the his- rical significance of the windows and the finan~ ul set-up; and the thirty branch Institutes of ie county accepted the project. The cost was timated at from $850 to $900. Each of the eight windows was to be given by . different donor and each was to mark a mile- ~oue in the steps taken to bring Christianity to ie Indians. In her spech at the formal presentation of the iridOIW as a gift to the Mohawk Chapel from We Women‘s Institutes of Brant County. Mrs. Harrison said: “The subject of the window is the ascended ’ hTiSi, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life in Well as the Door by which all men are called “fl (0 enter the Kingdom of God. The portrayal “l God‘s Kingdom and Household uses the Indian (Oncept of the heavenly teepee; and the Christ “ho invites His Indian people into God's Teepee. "‘5 the ascended Lord of the Indian race as of all races of mankind. We present this window ‘0 be dedicated to the glory of God and for the SUMMER 1960 Lell, Mrs. L. E. Harrison representing the Women's lnsli- lules of Bron! County, who presented the window to the Mohawk Chapel. Right, Miss Susan Hardy, aged 93, a former pupil and lot 50 years 0 teacher of the Mohawk Institute, 0 school for Indian children. adornment of this ancient Home of God. the first Christian ("hutch in this district, llcr Ma- jesty's Chapel of the Mohuwks." At the base of the \\indow is a plaque inâ€" scribed: “This window portraying the lord of all Nations is the gift of the Women's Institutes of Brant County." A Party for Eskimos By Mrs. J. C. l’nglish ECENTI.Y our Institute. Pittsburgh in Rfirontenac district. held two social events which we thought might be of interest to other Institute mcmbcrx. First. we entertained our husbands at in pot luck dinner and for our spcuLcr we had Dr. I. H. Richards who has made several trips to the Canadian North by boat; he also flew over the North Pole. During his talk he showed slides of the Eskimo people and conditions in their part of the country. He told nnmy interesting facts about the North that one would not imow from reading newspaper articles. We also had the opportunity of entertaining at number of Eskimo men ranging in age from scv~ cntccn to forty-one, who are stationed ul Barrie- field Military ('ump. taking the electrical mech- unicul engineer‘s course. These men are from Frobishcr Bay. ('himo. Sugluk, Churchill and Hamilton Inlet and will return to their own com- munities when they finished their course The men. along with lhcir interpreter. enjoyed a sleigh drive and later It square duncc was held, with 29