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The Foreword I am so glad to' hear that the' Women’s Institutes of Ontario are going to compile village history .books. Events move very fast nowa- days; houses are pulled down, new roads are made, and the aspect of the ' countryside changes completely someâ€" times in a short time. It is a most useful and satisfying task for Women’s Institute members to see that nothing valuable is lost or forgotten and women should be on the alert always to guard the tradi- tions of their homes, and to see that Water colour sketches and prints, poems and prose legends should find their way into these books. The oldest people in the village will tell fascinating stories of what they re- member, which the younger members can write down, thus making a bridge between them and events which hap- pened before they were born. After all, it is the history of humanity which is continually interesting to us, and; your village histories Will be the basis of accurate facts much valued by historians of the future. I am proud to think that you have called them “The Tweedsmuir Village Histories.” .