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Official oPening of Erland lee Home Aug. 9, 1973 ‘ 2 PM Erland Lee Home Ridge Road Stoney Creek, Ontario Reception 3 PM Branch Secretaries please notify Mrs. M. G. Miller 5297 Lawrence Ave. E. Highland Creek, Ontario M1C1R5 by July 15 stating the number coming from their Branch Special Wentworth County Day. Aug. 3- Erlanci [.66 Home, 5+ony Cree/m purchased by 7Lhe Women’s Insl/iuies H71 W05 Ciecil'cai’fifii by Hie/q“, Hl-S’i’ortil Silas Boarci oi: Oniario ll') tn HISTORIC BACKGROUND OF THE ER- LAND LEE PROPERTY This property is known as Edgemont, crown grant 1801 to John and Mary Lee on their marriage. The first dwelling was a log cabin built by John Lee for his bride. The young eou» pie surrounded it with cuttings of Sweet Mary, Myrtle, Yellow Roses and 3 Snow Ball Bush. The cabin has long since vanished but the plants are still flourishing. A frame house was later built and in time the back part of it was removed by Abram. son of John, and in the 1860s the present house was planned. It was built in front of the older part. The wood was Virgin pine cut on the property and a fourteenâ€" yearâ€"otd boy spent the whole summer hand cutting all the ornamentation on the outside of the house. All the hardware is original and the old iron latches and hinges are still there in the older part of the house. Much of the furniture has been handed down through the genera- tions. of interest is the walnut dining table which Janet Chisholm brought with her when She came as a bride of Erland Lee. The table was her grandfather's and on it she and Erlantt The interior of the Erland lee Homestead showing the fam0us walnut table on which the first Constitution worked on and wrote the Constitution of the at the Women's Institute was written. “r81 Women's institute in the World. It is important to Women‘s Institutes that this house be preserved for its historical \ztluc but more important thttt eventually it might he ELLE,” Cd lfl Hamfi “ml ( our) ”7 /?7/ used as u centre for Women's Institute nativi- ties.