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Nestled among the stately pines on Ridge Road is the beautiful white frame house which was the home of the Lee family for six generations. James Lee, of British soldier lineage, built a log cabin on this site when he, his wife, Hannah, and his family arrived with the United Empire Loyalists from Maryland in 1792. He brOUth some furnishings and flowering plants with him and several of these can still be found on the premises. He cut virgin pine on the property and built some of the fur- niture, one specific piece in the pioneer kitchen being a seven-foot china cupboard made with wooden pegs instead of nails. James Lee was ac- cidently killed by an axe flying from its handle at the raising of the first frame house built in Saltfleet Township. They had five sons and three daughters. John, eldest son of James lee, and Mary Lee were presented with the Crown Deed on their wedding day in 1801. It was John who built the back part of the frame house in the same year. This part forms the nucleus of the apartment at the back of the Present house. John Lee serv- ed with the Fifth Lincoln l2.1est11er,1,i.,r,1, the War of 1812. John and Mary had eleven children. He died in 1875. Abram, youngest son of John Lee, planned the present home at the top of the mountain on "Edgemont Farm" in 1860 and the front part was built to the "old house" in 1873. The Present white board and batten house is of Gothic architecture. It has green shutters, two bay windows and hand carved maple verge boards running along the gables. These were made by a fourteen-year-old carpenter's apprentice, named Moore. His orginial pattern resembles a paper chain of maple leaves, and the job took him a whole summer to complete. A,b.r,a.m had married Jemima Pew Erland became a school teacher. In 1885 he received a Certificai Agriculture given by the Agriculture and Arts Association of Ontario was a charter member of the Farmers' Institute and secretary for nine years, Saltfleet Agricultural Society secretary-treasurer for a numbe years, and Saltfleet Township clerk for nearly twenty years. Erland (now fourth generation) inherited the famil far H May 3, 1864 and died June 29, 1926. Erland mashed 'Idle £22353] Chisholm (born Jan. 4, 1862, died 1940), They had five children - Mar- jorie, Hilda, Gordon, Frank and Alice. in 1855. Erland was one of their three children The Family and The Home GI I6), a Certificate in , for nineteen a number of .He Frank (fifth generation) was the younger son of Erland and suffered from a bad heart, the aftermath of polio. However he was accepted and served overseas in the Army Service Corps, as a Red Cross Driver in England and later in France. When he returned from the war, Frank remained on the farm. In 1932 he married Katharine Isobel Matheson. They had four daughters. Frank died in 1966 and Katie in 1971. all; 111;? 541236135, 2titf the first directors of the Stoney Creek Women's er r"iiGii"r in orde st: who suggested that the annual fee be 25 cents ? . r at all women could join. Mrs E D Smith w th first President. . . . as e Assisted by Senator E.D. Smith and Major PM. Carpenter, Erland Lee helped the women draft the original by-laws and constitution. These were hand penned by Janet Lee sitting at the walnut dining-room table which remains in the Lee Home and is a focal point for all visitors. On his invitation Mrs. HOleess was the speaker at Ladies' Night of the Saltfleet Farmers' Institute. The following week the public - spirited Erland Lee and his wife, Janet, travelled the roads of Saltfleet Township en- couraging all the women to attend a meeting in Squire's Hall, Stoney Creek, on February 19, 1897. At that meeting the first Women's Institute in the world was organized. In the autumn of 1896, Erland Lee attended a meeting of the Farmers' Experimental Union, held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, where he heard a stirring address given by Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless of Hamilton. Inspired by her enthusiasm and impressed by her ideas, Erland felt there was a need for a Women's organization. triand was a prqmmfent, i?ublic-spirited, broadminded farmer and follow- ed his ancestors m mixed rfarrtiiUg' with purebred Jersey cattle, fancy dairy butter, maple syrup and fruit. Mrs. 'lJanett If]: was a .teaCher also. She was chosen by the city of Sin" ton O I: l a Spfc‘al Course in Toronto, to return to Hamilton to . e 1,t1 up a 1n ergar en spstem for the city. She retired to marry Erland 1n . Erland was a prominent G! R)