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7/, LADY TWEEDSMU'IR The officers and men of The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment have learned of the death of Lady Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, tPIOminent British politician and wife the The Lord ) (Tweedsmuir of the Hasty P’s. ' .‘nvj Lady: Tweedsmuir was .j"‘bbrn on Jan. 25, 1'915, the '1. daughter of the late Brigadier ‘ . AlanF. Thomson, DSO. She l was educated at various schools in England, Germany and. France. In 1945, she lentered politics and was elected to Parliment. In the years since, she had held a . , number of important ’government posts, including British delegate to the Council of Europe l (1950-53), delegate to the United Nations General Assembly (196061), and ‘ tMinister of State, Foreign and ‘ 'Commonwealth Office t ‘(uppointe‘d in 1972). Lady .. ‘Tweedsmuir was also 1. prominent in commerce and ‘ was a member of the . Committee “for Exports to ‘ Canada. t Quinte residents will refinemljer‘her in association wmh tier usband, The Lord Tweedsmu -, QBE, CD, 2nd Enron Elsfield. As_ an active; association‘ with the unit in the“, years since the w rHe , we“: Honorary ‘Colpnel o the «flagiment from 1955 to .1~9§g{.i,.- __ .4 ' Lady Susan Tweedsmuir Lady Tweedsmuir, widow of Lord Tweedsmuir, late Canadian Governor General, died March 24 at her Oxfordshire home in England at the age of 94. She was responsible for introducing the idea of gathering historical community data and compiling the information into book_ form, Because of her en- COuragement Women’s Institute members in Ontario 00mpiled Tweedsmuir History books at branch. dis- trict, area and provincial level. Lady Tweedsmuir was generous enough to write the foreword which appears in all Tweedsmurr History books. Today, Tweedsmuir Histories ”'1 Ontario are wnsidered authentic historical data and recognized by the Ministry' of Education as a true source of informa- tion for students. Completed Ontario Tweedsmuir Histories are on microfilm at the Ontario Archives. These valuable b00ks are certainly not only in Ontario but in all prov- inces. National Tweedsmuir History competitions ' have been held at FWIC Conventions overthe years. .. Statistics show over 1300 branches in Ontario have lo- : cal histories ranging from a single volume to as htgh as nine volumes. Women's Institutes are grateful to the foresight of i Lady TWEBdSmuiI‘ antl‘the support given to encourage branch members to record histories of local communi- ,r ties that otherwise would have been forever lost. “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 nowadays; houses are pulled down, new roads are made, and the aspect of the countryside changes corn- pletcly sometimes in a short time. It is a most useful and satisfying task for \tVomon's lnsti» tnte members to see thnt nothing valuable is lost or forgotten, and women should be on the alert always to guard the traditions 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 us fascinating stories of what they remember, which the younger members can write down, thus making a bridge between them and events which happened before they were born. After all, it is the history of humanity which is continually interesting to us, and your village histories will he the hnsis’ ul' accurate lac-ts much vultwd hy historians (it (110 future. I am proud to think that you haw called them "Tho Tweetlsmuir Village Histories“. "\Vrittt‘n by Lady 'l\\'(‘t*tlmniii'.