Mrs. John Nicholson, Mrs. Arthur Simmons, Mrs. Percy Dawson, Mrs. John Slmmons, Mrs. Frank Myers, Mrs. Louis Myers, Mrs. Elmer Mao- Donald, Mrs. Ralph Myers, Mrs. Heber MacVittie, and Mrs. Parker

Canfield.

Our latest project has been an attempt to compile our Village History. It has awakened much interest in our own and surrounding communities. While it leaves much to be desired, still we feel that we have chronicled much of interest, which would otherwise soon be for-

gotten as our older citizens pass away.

Here we would like to thank the many who have contributed to it, in our Institute, and in our own and surrounding communities.

One thing it has surely done for us ——~ it has awakened a deeper appreciation of our pioneer forbears.

We see them now, not as be-whiskered old fellows, hanging in their frames from the wall, with the wife standing demurely behind, but as rugged young men and women with a far vision of fertile fields, fine homes, and large families given a good start in life.

They hewed the forest, tree by tree, taking one clear decisive step at a time. But many steps make a mile, and they saw their vision become

a reality. “Crapaud Corner” has grown to be a modern, pleasant country village, and a thriving business centre.

The good roads leading to it, and the Trans-Canada Highway pass- ing through, are a far cry from the old bridle path our early settlers

travelled over “to Town.”

If we, of the succeeding generations, have the same stamina we will go forward to still better things.

Following is our Roll Call for 1954-55:

PRESIDENT —- Mrs. LeRoy Howatt VICE-PRESIDENT —— Mrs. Frank Myers SECRETARY —— Mrs. Frank MacDonald TREASURER —— Mrs. John Simmons

Mrs. George Nicholson Mrs. Wilmot MacDonald Mrs. Norman MacDonald Mrs. Heber MacVittie Mrs. John Nicholson Mrs. Kenneth Paynter Mrs. Robert Dawson Mrs. Joseph Trowsdale Mrs. Howard Parker

Mrs. B. C. Wood Mrs. Ed. Sherren Mrs. Arthur Simmons Mrs. Clark Fall Mrs. Frank Harvey Mrs. Ralph Myers Mrs. Elmer MacDonald Mrs. Eric Lowther Mrs. Percy Dawson Mrs. Wm. Callbeck Mrs. Louis Myers Mrs. Murdock Stewart

Mrs. Fred MacDonald Mrs. Parker Canfield Mrs. Warren Ferguson Mrs. Clayton Fraser Miss Lolita MacVittie Mrs. Wm. Waddell Mrs. George Myers Mrs. Lyman Harvey Miss Jean McGaughey Mrs. Willis Judson Miss Christine MacLeod Mrs. George Ebsary

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