First Woman Elected to Canada's Parliament

Agnes MacPhail

When Agnes Campbell MacPhail walked down the long corridor to the opening of the Senate Chamber, she was so much aware of the fact that, as the first woman in Canadian Parliament, she was leading the way for others in the future, she claimed: "I could almost hear them coming."

This week the first woman ~ openly gay woman ~ became leader of a major political party, to sit as Premier of Ontario.

*1921 Progressive Party of Canada.  By 1926 ranks of the third party had dwindled to twelve.  MacPhail refused offers of a position in MacKenzie King's cabinet, remaining loyal to the Progressive Party.

For an outline of Agnes MacPhail's accomplishments:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Macphail 
(b. March 24, 1890 - d. February 13, 1954)

~ Footprints In The Snow, The Heros And Heroines Of Canada, Robert Livesey, Little Brick Schoolhouse, 1978.


Monday on the Waterfront ~
...and the work goes on

Cayuga-on-The-Grand





Sunday all Quiet on The Waterfront ~

The Neat Little Bookshop is located in the block approaching the bridge.  Come in and visit us.

(Photos taken Sun., Jan., 27. lbw)

Maddie ~

At age 12, Maddie was diagnosed with a rare and devastating disease.  At age 13, she could have fulfilled any wish. "A Disney cruise?  The change to meet your favorite movie star?  A five thousand dollar shopping spree?"
Maddie chose to build a school for orphaned children in an African village. And when she had accomplished that wish, she went on to provide clean water by building a well.

Told as only her Mother could tell it, the story of this beautiful and courageous child will warm your heart and forever inspire.

Visit:  www.maddieswishproject.com.  Watch Maddie's video at:  www.mindbreak.ca

Sharon Babineau lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

~ The girl who gave her wish away, Sharon Babineau, Bettie Youngs Book Publishers, 2013.  Available at The Neat Little Bookshop. $15. 

Smile for Today~

"Ihave discovered photography.

Now I can kill myself.

I have nothing else to learn."

~Pablo Picasso

February Goings On ~

Haldimand Motors Soup 'A Bowl, Talbot Rd., Cayuga, Friday, February 1, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.  Haldimand County Food Drive.


Cayuga Women's Institute Meeting, Monday, February 4, 1:30 pm  Brantwood Villa, The Common Room,  Robert Dell Court.  Topic:  Valentines/Love.

St. Paul's Anglican Church, Cayuga, Tuesday, February 12, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm. Pancake & Sausage Supper. 

Canfield Women's Institute Valentine Luncheon, Thursday, February 14 at 12:00 pm.   Canfield Community Centre, 50 Talbot Rd., Canfield.  Lunch, card party $8 per person.  Tickets:  905-772-5160.

Smile for Today ~

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
~ Nelson Henderson

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
~ Winston Churchill

~ Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, Reader's Digest, 2006

Winter

The wintry west extends his blast,
   And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
   The blinding sleet and snaw;
Wild-tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
   And roars frae bank to brae;
While bird and beast in covert rest,
   And pass the heartless day.

The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast,'
   The joyless winter day
Let others fear, to me more dear
   Than all the pride of May;
The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul,
   My griefs it seems to join'
The leafless trees my fancy please,
   Their fate resembles mine!

Thou Pow'r Supreme, whose mighty scheme
   These woes of mine fulfil,
Here, firm I rest, they must be best,
   Because they are Thy will!
Then all I want (O, do Thou grant
   This one request of mine!);
Since to enjoy Thou dost deny,
   Assist me to resign.

~ Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796)  Scottish Bard
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, Collins, 1955.
*Front Cover Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., 1973,  Portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, painted in 1828, 32 years after the poet's death.