The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . t in the his-tory of their native land and who have never looked at aCanadian history, except possibly as required in an earlyschool course. Those people would listen if you told themthat the Battle of Lundys Lane was the last importantvictory gained by the British in the War of 1812, but merelydo so to be polite. One of the most important functions of the OntarioHistorical Society is to place the history of this fairDominion before the people in such an attractive mannerthat they will w
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . t in the his-tory of their native land and who have never looked at aCanadian history, except possibly as required in an earlyschool course. Those people would listen if you told themthat the Battle of Lundys Lane was the last importantvictory gained by the British in the War of 1812, but merelydo so to be polite. One of the most important functions of the OntarioHistorical Society is to place the history of this fairDominion before the people in such an attractive mannerthat they will want to make it a regular study. It is throughthe medium of the Affiliated Societies that this can best beaccomplished. The local societies — of which there arethirty-one scattered over the Province—have an oppor-tunity of appeal to the personal clement in history. Theycan make each individual of the community in which theyare located feel that he or she is not only connected withthe history of the district through ancestors who have beeninstrumental in settling their particular part of the country,. SIR JOHN GIBSON AND HIS SECRETARY. MAJOR CALDWELL,REVIEWING THE TROOPS. COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES 65 but they can be made to feel that they are making the his-tory of the present day. And when you appeal to the per-sonal side of the average human being and show him thatthe old plough which his father used but which was longago discarded, is the only one of the kind known to existin the district and that it, with a card attached bearing hisname as donor, would make a valuable addition to the col-lection of historical objects in the local museum; or showhis wife that the old dress with the bustle on it which shewore as a bride not many years ago, is as important toillustrate the true history as a military commission issuedby Sir Isaac Brock to some persons great grandfather, youhave those people won for life. They will read in thecounty papers of those additions to the local collect
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