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In the sehoolmnsler‘s house. One big room served as kilchen, dining room, parlour and class- room. fitting her station as the wife of a prolessional man, and it is elegant indeed with its red and white striped satin settee. But the heart ol this house is its huge dining room, Beyond it in the back parlour. forerunner of the "family room" fashionable today. her hall finished knitting lies as if put down only a moment ago. The schoolmaster and his mic and huh}. with their three or four boarding pupils, are separated a whole generation from the pros. perous inhabitants of the lavishly lurnished Loucks‘ stone house. as well as- hy dillcrcnees in material wealth, His little house. neverthe- less, is vastly superior to an earlier loucks' house also shown nearby. For the first Loucks. newly arrived to take up his land grant. heist-d a house out of the forest quickly to shelter his family until he could build a better one, in the farm complex that first house now is Used for livestock while the second one. compara- tively superior~ became a hired man's hutlst; as increasing affluenCe blessed succeeding gen- erations of Loucks. The final and vet} grand 1860 stone house shows changes that were not all for the best; for in it the simple grace 0! early Canadian furniture gives way to the over-ornamented pompOsity ot' the beginning ol the plush Victorian era. There are two inns. Cook's tavern this re- built with its original bricks and loolss as ii at any moment great meat pies would emerge onto the tables from its huge kitchen uith massive fireplace and pewter lined shL'|\‘cs. ln Willard's Hotel the visitor can sit down to _i tasty meal and rest his feet before continuing his tour, There is much to see and he must he careful to miss nothing, For instance. he might not gueSs what a cosy little retreat the French- Robertson stables provide upstairs tor the coachman. The splendid park in which the Village stands is one of a chain covering ()Jlllll :ictcs WINTER I 962 in a hundred and seventyniile strip along the SL lsiurenee. administered by the ('omutisâ€" .sion. ll commemorates the Battle of (‘I‘t'slet‘hs‘ Farm. one of the decisive victories ol' the War of Hill in which greatly outnumhered British and ('nnadian troops defeated the American forces. In preventing the Americans troni con- tinuing on to attack Montreal. the victory this .i determining lactur in t‘anada's destini ol ita- tionhootl A (tiiilrlvtll'll wide malL L‘\lending ahoiit hall a mile in Irom the highway leads to a torn-loot high mound overlooking the St. laurencc. Atop the treerdollcd mound is a monument to l oyalist soldiers. A long Ion building .it the tool ol the mound, the llattle .\letnoti.il. contains [no couits ol lionoui :inil mementos ol the lmtllc itsell .-\ huge mural, painted hi ldlllL‘li ( now than .iitist 5, \herrill Scott, [Lilies up one “hole wall It is stiilsiiigli executed ll‘l rninuic detail. A pulilislicd account. "llic llii oi (rislct's l-ariii” has i‘L'L‘Il “title” In the HilL'L'ltll' ol Ilistoiic Sites lor the tlntaiio tnwcriinicnl. .\|i'. Ronald I Witt. i'lllH' Io diicclint: oper- .itioiis .it lppcr (titladii Villain: .\1i \\".ihad .ilrc;ti|\ giu‘n (.iiiziilians .l \‘dlllithlt‘ titlli- l;lt\ museum in the restoration ol ()ld l'oi‘t lleni'i litt'lL‘ l\ t.ii tuotc to the Village lliiin lls oldlasluoiicd charm. It has a purpose to pre- serse lilL‘ (.madian heritage, and to :iclucw this lL‘LlllltCs iiinie lltaii museums displdi‘iiig llll< nitrite and iiitilacts in static :iiiai. litese are .mpoiiaiil loo. ol cniiise. and the Village cone Littls mo in .nldition lo the one descrihed in lilL‘ Hattie \lL‘lIltll’idi 11W home of (Hi. John I’liny (nslct’. a descendant til the Parks namesake. u..is dismantch at its location three miles nest on Ilighisav 2 MRI reconstructed in the Village as .i Museum of Settlement. lhcsc documents. llirnuiire. clothes. toys. jew- clleri’. instruments and pictures illustrate the pioneer Wat ol lliL’. 'lhe Agricultural Museum. 23