Cayuga Kinsmen & St. John's Lodge

Brian and Billy Serve Omelets as You Like Them!

"The best brunch in Haldimand County!" ~ Brian Nyberg

Cathie & Larry Smith from Hamilton in Cayuga for Sunday Brunch

Cayuga Kinsmen and St. John's Lodge welcome you to join them for Sunday Brunches ~ the first Sunday of each month at the Cayuga Kinsmen Community Centre.  9:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.

 Adults $10.00 and children (under 12) $4.00.

Laura Secord

Laura Secord House Queenston



Historians of the War of 1812 have recorded various accounts of Laura Secord's walk from Queenston to Beaver Dams. 

Ruth McKenzie, author of Laura Secord, the legend and the lady*, writes,  "Laura Secord had found her niche in Canadian history as the agent of victory at Beaver Dams.  It was a distinctive niche because it was held by a woman, and in the next two decades women played a large part in bringing the name of Laura Secord into prominence as a great Canadian heroine."

*McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1971.  Maracle Press.

 

Today visitors can sit in the adjacent tea room and enjoy the historic surroundings.  North-west corner of Queen and Partition streets, Queenston, Ontario.

Lundy's Lane Niagara Falls

Photos:  lbw Click on photos for larger image.

Laura Secord's Young Friend

Carla Ann Kuchard has created a charming little tale of a young Native girl's chance meeting with Laura Secord.  While picking strawberries, eleven year old Lucy is surprised to discover a stranger resting under a tree.  As Lucy approaches her, the lady invites her to sit and talk.  The two become instant friends.  Laura has been traveling by foot since daybreak and gratefully accepts the girl's offer of strawberries and a drink of water.

As the new friends part ~ as Laura has an important message that must be delivered before dusk ~ they exchange gifts.  Lucy gives Laura her "good-luck" doll, beautifully dressed, wearing bead-worked moccasins.  Laura gives her young friend a dainty handkerchief.

After Laura disappears into the forest, Lucy unfolds the handkerchief.  To her delight it is edged in embroidery.  In all four corners tiny red stitches ~ strawberries! 

[Available at The Neat Little Bookshop, all proceeds go to the Thorold and Beaverdams Historical Society.]

Note:  Be sure to read "the other Maria's" comment on Lucy's Special Day.

Wisdom

For three days there have been no bookshop posts.  Frankly it did not matter what I tried, nothing worked.  Today I noticed a blank field with tiny, pale words, "Enter title" ~ Enter a phony title ~ no attention to key words and voila!

William James said, "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." 


[The underlined, mandatory title is not attractive.  Personally I preferred a choice of font, colour, italics, spacing, etc. as before.  Even the option of no title was preferable!  Why the change?]

Smile for Today ~

"I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking.  But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going."

~ Lord Birkett

Family Holidays ~

NO SMALL LEGACY ~

One need only read the writings of early settlers of Upper & Lower Canada to understand that we stand on the shoulders of many individuals.  There are numerous diaries and biographies that describe the hardships and challenges of clearing and governing a new land.

HAPPY CANADA DAY

Battle of Stoney Creek ~ Canada

"The country which the government of the United States has undertaken to conquer."
~ David Longworth, American Statesman's Kalendar, 1812. [An almanac of census figures, time tables, federal gov't. depts., and army & navy lists.]

Billy Green

www.battlefieldhouse.ca  Photos:  Battlefield House Collection lbw