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markable address was read by Mr. Hilton Hill, Warrior of the Six 

 Nations Indians, who were well represented in the grand Centennial 

 gathering and who, at the close of the programme, adopted Colonel 

 Ryerson as a Chief into one of their tribes. 



At the Centennial Celebration at Lundy's Lane on the 25th July, 

 the U. E. Loyalists placed a wreath on the grave of John Burch, U. E., 

 the first person buried there. The most impressive number on the 

 programme, and that which won closest attention from the vast 

 audience gathered in the historic burying-ground, was Lt.-Col. 

 Macqueen's fine reading of Duncan Campbell Scott's "Lundy's 

 Lane." 



When, a few days later, war was declared between Great Britain 

 and Germany, the U. E. L. Association empowered its Ladies' Com- 

 mittee to add to its numbers to collect money and materials to be 

 applied to the sick and wounded in the war in the Canadian contingent 

 through the Canadian Red Cross Society. As a result, 250 fully 

 equipped hospital kit-bags valued at $6 each have been provided the 

 Canadian Expeditionary Forces, including 25 contributed by Mrs, 

 Harshaw, Regent of the U. E. L. Chapter of the Daughters of the Em- 

 pire, Napanee. Five hundred pairs of woollen wristlets also were 

 collected and distributed at Valcartier. In connection with this 

 work a most successful bridge was arranged by Mrs. George A. Shaw, 

 and a concert by Mrs. Rena Chadwick. Following the disastrous 

 march of the German army into Belgium, Miss Evelyn Johnson, 

 New York, sister of Pauline Johnson, the Indian Poet, wrote to 

 Miss Merrill suggesting that the U. E. Loyalists should be the first 

 to render assistance to the Belgians, and earnestly advising that Ma- 

 dame Lalla Vandervelde, wife of the Belgian Minister of State, then 

 on her way to America, to lecture on behalf of Belgian repatriation, 

 be invited to speak in Toronto. Under the auspices of the United 

 Empire Loyalists the Belgian Relief Committee was formed, which 

 included representatives from leading organisations in Toronto, 

 and which arranged for a lecture in Massey Hall, by Madame Vander- 

 velde, October 17, the proceeds amounting to more than $5,000 to 

 be applied to Belgian repatriation at the close of the war. This 

 Committee has continued operative and more than $9,000 has been 

 collected for Belgian immediate relief. 



At the annual meeting in January last, on the retirement of Colonel 

 Ryerson from the presidency on account of being obliged as National 

 President of the Canadian Red Cross Society to inspect the branches 

 in Europe, an Address and a gold badge of the U. E. Loyalists' Associa- 

 tion were presented him in recognition of distinguished service ren- 

 dered the Association. 



