ROYAL COMMISSION 
     
     ON HEALTH SERVICES - 1961 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Home and School brief to this Royal Commission 
     
     covered three main categories: Physical Needs, Mental and 
     
     Emotional Needs and Adult Education. The teaching of nutrition 
     
     was called for as well as a complete screening of visual and 
     
     auditory defects at the primary school level. The needs of the 
     
     educable retarded, the trainable retarded, and those children Wit'l 
     
     learning disorders, reading disabilities, and emotional probler‘rs 
     
     were cited in the brief. The establishment of reading clinics was 
     
     recommended. 
     
    
   
   
    
     TRANSPORTATION LINK 
     
     TO LENNOX ISLAND - 1967 
     
    
   
   
    
     On Lennox Island about 100 boys and girls, age 16 or 
     
     under, were denied opportunities of education comparable to 
     
     other P.E.|. youngsters. Isolated from the mainland during early 
     
     winter and late spring, and dependent upon a treacherous strip of 
     
     ice for four winter months, the Lennox Island children had no 
     
     ready access to schooling beyond Grade 8. Although the teachers 
     
     were paid by the federal government at salaries higher than 
     
     prevailing P.E.|. rates, it was difficult to retain staff because of 
     
     lack of a transportation link. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1967, resolutions to support action for such a link came 
     
     spontaneously and independently from several local Home and 
     
     School associations during a study of the Tillicum (Friendship) 
     
     project sponsored by the National Federation. Accordingly, a 
     
     brief was prepared by a committee named by Provincial Federa— 
     
     tion, and on May 25, 1967 it was read to Honourable Alex B. 
     
     Campbell, Premier, and Honourable Gordon Bennett, Minister of 
     
     Education. Premier Campbell expressed concern, and he arranged 
     
     for the Home and School President, Hesta MacDonald, and the 
     
     Committee, to meet with officials from the Department of 
     
     Indian Affairs and Northern Development, in order to reinforce 
     
     the stand in favor of a bridge or causeway. 
     
    
   
   
    
     38