Thursday May 28th

6:05pm

Today was a short day really,but it was just as well - tomorrow we fly to Calgary and drive to Banff.

We first went to the Royal Chapel of the Mohawks, Brantford. Today I learned that the Mohawks (People of the Flint) are a First Nation of New York, USA, Quebec and here in Eastern Ontario. This church is the oldest Protestant church in Ontario. The first Chapel of the Mohawks was built at Fort Hunter in New York, 1712. It was destroyed as an aftermath of the American Revolution. During this war, some of the Six Nations people allied themselves with Canada and Britain, and settled in Canada. This Chapel in Brantford was built in 1785 and stands as a shrine to the Six Nations as a symbolic link between the Crown of England and the people of the Grand River Valley.

The Woodland Cultural Centre we visited soon after the Chapel, had quite an old fashioned Museum, but it was very good, very understandable. After lunch, we went to Chiefswood, the birthplace and childhood home of E.Pauline Johnson, or Tekahiouwake. She was half English and half Mohawk and was proud of her mixed heritage - she was Canada's first nationally acclaimed female poet. Today was very interesting and I would have liked to have bought a book about the history of the Eastern tribes in Canada. I should like to do the same with the Plains and River tribes. I shall have to keep my eyes peeled.

On the way back home, we stopped off in Paris (!) and visited a cute shop which I would describe as selling "haberdashery" but we just went in to see the river view through their back window!! ;o) We bought cakes, and some steak for dinner before finishing off my scrapbook for the time being, and packing my suitcase for tomorrow