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Probably because I was born on a Saskat- chewan homestead and love to stretch my eyes for miles I have an affinity for this topic and I strongly recommend it as a subject for study in our Institutes, It is a change from the usual round and is a worthwhile exertise in citizenship. Editor's Note: Here are a few excerpts from letters Mrs. Lewis received from women in the territories. One writes from Fort Providence: “We sponsor a basic English class for five- year-old natives. One member takes the class, the rest of us help by getting supplies and making cookies for their lunches. This year we are making warm footwear and mittens for these five~year-olds and clothes for the needy children so that they can attend the classes . . . Our main project is to buy moosehide handiâ€" crafts from the natives, then find a market for them. Since we have been doing this the natives have greatly increased their handi- craft." At Christmas, Easter and Halloween the Institute meeting is usually turned into a party. The Institute also provides reading mat- ter for interested people. The first of this came from Granton Women's Institute in Middlesex County; the Middlesex County Institutes also sent a donation of $200 for the expansion of the work in the North. Discovery. the site of another Institute is a gold-mining camp about 55 miles from Yelâ€" lowknife. Here the program is much like that of an old Ontario Institute. They report demonâ€" strations in sandwich making, fish cooking, meat cutting; and they had a lawyer from Yellowknife speak to them on Women’s Rights in the Northâ€"West Territories. They do sewing and make crib quilts for people needing them and when one of their members was hospital- ized with cancer in Edmonton. they collected $1,500 for her, mostly from the mining camps. St. Mary’s District Museum By Mrs. L. A. Ball T. MARY’S WOMEN’S INSTITUT! ind S a busy season in 1962 When. assixhl in members of other women's organig...;. 7’ in St. Mary‘s, they welcomed 500 Cflllel’x i Mary’s District Museum â€" 200 more i. the previous year. This museum began in a most model in 1955 when one room in the Old Col Institute was granted to us rent free 1- me Town Council as a place to keep 0. .id historical gifts. To-day we are housed first large stone dwelling ever erected 31 Mary's, in about the year 1838, and known as Cadgar Park House. It is surroi :d by beautiful grounds and tall old trees, at ‘ swimming pool for the children is also Si Al in Cadgar Park. These young citizens L-t .1. ways welcome and are becoming real? n- thused about the early history of St. Man The museum is open from three it o‘clock every Wednesday and Saturday ,r. noon from June till September and, evei- th the help of other women’s organizations te- town, it was becoming quite a task to k u staffed during the summer holidays. Vi ‘e- cided to ask about ten girls from Grade ,\I the Public School, who were quite fa Jr with the museum, to come on open daj ILl assist the ladies and, with a little training .-became splendid guides and enthusiastic ri- ers for the museum. When the visiting season is over we be to house-clean, sending the woollen clothes we dryâ€"cleaned and the cotton clothes to be il- ed. At first we did all this work ourselw til now we can pay to have it done. It is n all voluntary labour. We are also papering and painting the .e front entrance hall, which will greatly int 0 ing Si. ~ in Members at I‘ leaf Women‘s lute in the oli costumes they to take part in depicting an ‘- tute meeting 0' ‘r’ years ago. 2.14:. HOME AND COUtu . RY