BIRR UNITED_CHURCH es PROGRAMME Birrggnited Church celebrated ;ts 150th anniverâ€" . SINGâ€"SONG sary in 1985. Originally it was a Methodist congreâ€" _ . f gation served by c?rcuityriders who met with the settlers> Manley Sadler and Anne White in homes. The first chapel in Birr was a frame buildâ€" ing built in the early 1830‘s in an area now occuPiEd ; P ts Dorothy Dobbi by the cemetery. In 1856 it was replaced by a brick f sA 186 chapel; a parsonage was built nearby to accomodate f the minister. In 1902 the present church was built on pppis d CH&GEs SINGgRSd ted b 5 a site directly across from the graveyard. $ onqucted by Randy Martin Birr Methodist Church became Birr United Church Everybody Has Music Inside in 1925 when the;iUnited Church of Canada was formed. ' Somewhere a Child is Singing * : * es Pass It Along 4 i \eiga, Canon of Praise $ & A FABLE FROM AFRICA BIRR WOmENS! INSTITUTE Nes t s Told by Manley Sadler Birr Womens! Institute was organized in 1911, at PIANO SOLO :htime when‘there was a need for rural women to have Alexandra Luce e opportunity for selfâ€"expression and learning. In ; 1986 when their 75th anniversary is celebrated, members gggmgiiggaCuckoo of Birr W. I. will recall the influence they have exerted toward many facets of home and comunity proâ€" A MIME ACT grams detailed "for the good of all mankind". * Denny Bvene 4& treasured heirloom of Birr W. I. is the o ue "Emily Guest" pin, worn by each president during her sOLOTST term of office. Emily Guest (1871. â€" 1936), a native Marlign Bilyes of the Birr community with an inherited interest in â€" Ba{l Zgnne uce (accompanist) people, became an organizer of Womens‘ Institute 1 J o locally and in Great Britain. As a tribute for the Still as the Night Institute work done in England and Scotland she was Oh, No John, No John, No John, No presented with a jewelled W. I. badge pin. After her death, the pin was given to Birr W. I. by her family. CLOSING On June 9, 1985, by invitation, members of Birr . I. Manley Sadler attended a ceremony inducting Miss Emily Guest into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame. # $# K o# # # # # ko # # Members of Birr W. I. feel. privileged to have a part in hosting "Convention ‘85". Tt gives us an FOLLOWED BY opportunity to meet Institute friends with a common A social time downstairs with strawberries, cause, "for Home and Country" . cake and conversation. by Edna Adams, 1985 Curator of the Tweedsmuir History I |