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Editor's note: Because many Institutes arrange outing excursions for their members and rienrls, taking in at Stratford play or other entertainment or visiting some historic spot, we thought an article an Upper Canada Vil- lage might be of interest, Here it is, ANY THOUSANDS of Canadians M during the summer just past stepped across an old wooden toll bridge in Upper Canada Village to spend a few hours in another time far removed from space experiâ€" ments and nuclear testing. The line of trees bordering Highway No. 2 six miles east of Morrisburg hides more than the collection of fortyâ€"odd buildings that comprise the Village. It hides a whole era that made possible the nationhood and the standard of living of which we are so justly proud today. The story of the Village. and Crysler‘s Farm Battlefield Park in which it stands, became familiar to the people of Canada through press, radio and TV last June 14 when Pre- mier Leslie M. Frost opened it officially to visitors. Long before that, thousands of inâ€" quiries had begun to pour in as people travel- ling through Eastern Ontario caught glimpses of the project nearing its completion. after more than four years of painstaking research and restoration. To visit Upper Canada Village is indeed to step back into the past. but past and future are inevitably coupled when one tells the origin of the little community now preserving for posterity almost the whole story and spirit of the last one hundred and fifty years. For the impending and neceSSary destruction of some of the past in order to make way for the future Was the basis for the living museum which is the Village. When necessary inundation for the St. Lawrence Seaway spelled the doom of the historically rich old villages of Mille Rochcs, Moulinette. Aultsville. Dickinson‘s Landing, WINTER I962 r ,7. E z... ,â€" :1 Visitors stroll from Cook's Tavern on the left into the French Robertson Hausa. Upper Canada Village Farran‘s Point, Wales. Woodlands and East Wil- liamsburg, the Ontario Government with inâ€" spired foresight secured the safety of invalu- able structures, relics and mementos, These have been incorporated into one community, some buildings restored and others rebuilt to represent those villages which had to make way for the future. First conceived was the Pioneer Memorial, a serene and lovely cross-shaped garden situâ€" ated on the gently rolling green of Crysler Farm Park within sight of the St. Lawrence Here headstones from graveyards which had to be submerged are set into walls made of the bricks, stones and timbers from houses in the villages now gone. Within the walls flow- crs bloom beside tranquil walkways. The forty-odd buildings, including two churches, two mills, inns, shops and private homes gathered together in the restoration pro- ject typify a St. Lawrence Valley community of the nineteenth century. Its homes and churches clustering comfortably around a tran- quil village green bordering the shore of Lake St. Lawrence, 3 “head pond" created by the widening of the river, the Village mirrors faithfully pioneer life from 1784 to 1867. it is administered by the Ontario St‘ Lawrence De- velopment Commission under the chairman,â€" ship of Mr. George H. Challies. The Commis- sion. appointed in 1955, is responsible also for the 2,000 acre Crysler Farm Battlefield Park and for the development of recreational facilities and the preservation of parks and historic sites, particularly in the Seaway area. As the visitor crosses the little drawbridge by the Village store he steps back in time; and not only his eyes, but his other senses attest to this, for the sound of water wheels and the ringing hammer of the blacksmith greet his ears. and his nose is tempted by the smell of freshly baked bread in the little bake- 21