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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-03-07, Page 1818iS._.� ,Page 4—Crossroads-•Maroh 7 1984 Sometime you overlook the obvious. Although Ifeen travelling the province for years I didn't know there was a Royal Chapel of the Mohawks in Eastern Ontario, until its Bicentennial was be- ing celebrated. It's located on the Tyendinaga Reserve which surrounds the village of Desoronto. I made a few inquiries. No one I talked to including a couple of historians, had heard of it either. Yet it's the oldest chapel in Ontario! Not only that, it's one of just two Royal chapels to exist outside the United Kingdom. The other is the Royal Chapel of the Mo- hawks in Brantford which has been wellpublicized. "The Forgotten Chapel", as I began to think of it, was built in 1774 shortly after some of the ,Royalist Mo- hawks landed at the Bay of Quinte following the Ameri- can Revolution. Lead by Chief Desoronto, there were only 15 families up there. They had been granted land by the Crown for their loyal- ty. As soon as they landed on Quinte shores they turned ' over their canoes and held a church service using their treasured Queen Ann Silver Communion Service. • That's a story in itself. They had received the silver service ft•om Queen Ann when five Mohawk Chiefs went to England in the early 1700s to meet the Queen. They took the present back to their settlement near Fort Hunter in New York state. When the Americans piaged their villages they buried the silver, and dut it up later when they left for Canada. Shortly after clearing the land near the Bay and establishing what is now Tyenindage, they built the chapel under royal patron- age. There are three pieces of it at the chapel. The re- mainder went with Chief Jo- seph Brant anda larger band who went on to the Brantford district. .The custodian of the silver at Tyendinago in Milville Hill was a former chief, a de- scendant of Desoronto and now the band's historian. He was telling me it's the most historic, the oldest, and the rnost valuable silver in Canada. The Royal Chapel itself is a beautiful little church. The Anglican clergyman, Rev. Kenneth Blaiber, simulated a brief ceremony for us. His official title is "Chaplain of the Mohawks of the Quinte". The choir sang in Mohawk, in the shadow of the Union Jack and the coat of arms sent to the Royal Chapel by George III. Melville Hill was saying that the chapel has never been visited, by royalty, al- thoughmembers of the Royal Family have been to the Brantford Chapel on numerous occasions. Meanwhile, the loyalist Mohawks of the Quinte have been hoping that during their Bicentennial celebrations they might finally get a royal visit to "The Forgotten Chapel". BOOK REVIEW VOLCANOES IN OUR SO- LAR SYSTEM! By G. Jef- frey Taylor. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings. Dodd, Mead and Company (Canada) Ltd., Toronto. 95 pp. Reviewed by PERCY MADDUX On earth there are about 500 active volcanoes, which shows that the earth is a geo- logically active planet. There are volcanoes on other planets as well — Venus, Mars, Jupiter's moon Io. Mercury and our moon have a history ofvolcanic action. The moon is no longer geolo- gically active. G. Jeffrey Taylor's book "Volcanoes in Our Solar Sys- tem" explains that when it comes to volcanoes outside of earth 'what we know is only of heavenly bodies that we have been able to explore so far. On these the book gives a lot of information and also tells of comets, which are icy objects beyond the planets, and of asteroids, which are small bodies that revolve around the sun be- tween the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This is a science book that is easy to read and under- stand. CANADA `A' ,GRADE BEEF FULL CUT OUND STEAK FULLY AGED FOR TENDERNESS 4 . 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