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Searchable Stewartville Tweedsmuir Histary 7 Book 1 digitized by Jim Austin "FOREWORD" I am an glad to hear that the Women‘s Institutes of Ontario are going to cmnpilc village history lmoks. Events move very fast nowadays; houses are pulled (lawn, new roads are made, and th A aspcvt Hf thc cnuntrysitlc changes completely SOmctimcs in a HllUl'l timtn [t is a most useful and satisfying task for VVnmcn’s Institute members to scc that nothing valuable is lost 01' forgotten, and wmncn should lac 021 the alm‘t always to guard the traditions of their lltllllt‘st and tn sec that water colour sketches and prints, pomns and prose legends should find their way into thvsc hooks» The oldest pcnplc in the village will tell us fascinating stnrics of what they rcmcmhen which the younger int-mlJL-I's can \n'itc (lmvn. thus making a bridgc litriwccu thcin and cventfi which llappcncd before thcy werc horn. Aftcr all. it is tht‘ histon' of humanity which is cnntinually lllit‘l‘ehtlllg to us, ahd your \illagt- histm'ics will lw the basis of accurate facts much valued in historians til the future I am proud to think that you have calla-(l tllcm "The ’l‘weedsmuir Villagc l’listm‘ich". â€"\\-’rittcn by Lady Twccdsmuir.