portation link between Lennox Island and the main body of 
     
     P.E.|. At that time the federal government was considering other 
     
     alternatives and a bridge did not appear feasible. It is a source of 
     
     pride to the Tillicum Committee members that the causeway to 
     
     Lennox Island has now become a reality. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the 1967 provincial Semi-annual Meeting, Mr. Jack 
     
     Sands, the National Centennial Chairman, commented on the 
     
     federal government's attitude. Mr. Sands said, “Home and School 
     
     must build its own bridge, a bridge of understanding and friend- 
     
     ship. Why not combine Tillicum with Home and School’s 
     
     Centennial Reading Project? You could build a Bridge of Books.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Response to a Bridge of Books project was proof of Home 
     
     and School concern. Despite the attitude of the Department of 
     
     Indian Affairs that Home and School's project was redundant and 
     
     useless, the local associations continued financial support of the 
     
     project. Teachers on Lennox Island were consulted on reading 
     
     interests and Mrs. Frank Ross selected over 400 books in strong 
     
     paperback format. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The books were destroyed when fire levelled the Lennox 
     
     Island school in 1971, but hopefully links of respect and under- 
     
     standing between lndians and the Home and School Federation 
     
     have come into existence. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MOBILITY STUDY 
     
    
   
   
    
     It has been said facetiously that North America is inhabited 
     
     chiefly by nomads. More realistically, on P.E_|. where traditiona|< 
     
     ly a child lived in one community all his formative years and 
     
     attended a single school, new patterns were being formed. As 
     
     parents moved within the province or were transferred from 
     
     province to province, concerns as to what effects mobility has on 
     
     the social, cultural, emotional and educational growth of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     child were being lt}*UX8fT1ll10(l. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Under the direction of F/Lt. Ian Sherlock of Summerside, 
     
     Home and School undertook a study on mobility as it affects 
     
     children in Prince Edward Island. At an Atlantic Conference held 
     
     in Amherst on May 6, 1967, Mr. Sherlock outlined the purpose of 
     
     the study, and his work was considered worthy to go before the 
     
     Canadian Federation at its 1967 Annual Meeting. Minutes of the 
     
     Atlantic Conference read: 
     
    
   
   
    
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