Here comes The Sound of Music Amateur actors, like these MSS students, will do just about anything to get in front of a camera! Teaming up on the backstage curtain ropes, for their production of '"'The Sound of Music" (April 16,17,18 and 19 at the ta™)} the Style For Your Money 4 ook SAVE 20% OFF BOOK PRICES Sale LIMITED TIME OFFER From April 1 - April 30 e Smart Walls Wear Mayfair e SKILJA design 579 Bay St., : Midland 526-7563 we high school) are (clockwise from upper ieft) Corry Nicholls ("Brigit- Jean Tilson ("Gretl"), Langlois (Captain Von Trapp), reluctant ('Friedrich'). Allan and Kevin Busch The second Census of Canada, taken in 1881, reported a family as one person living alone, or "any number of persons living together under one roof, and having their food provided together."' The definition of a 1981 Census family was more complicated - "a husband and a wife (with or without children who have never married, regardless of age), or a lone parent of any marital status, with one or more children who have never been married, regardless of age, living in the same dwelling." Between 1881 and 1981, there has also been a significant increase in the number of Canadian families: In 1881, there were 812,136 families and in 1981 there were almost eight times as many for a total of 6,324,975 Census families. Farm land in Canada has been steadily in- creasing since the second Census. of Canada in 1881. At that time, total farm land was reported at 18 million hectares compared to the 208 million hectares reported in the 1981 Census. Another trilingual stamp LARRY rate Canada is about to issue another trilingual stamp, a 34-center on April 14 to honour Mary "Molly" Brant. '"'Another"' - trilingual stamp? Actually, it will be the fourth. On Oct. 26, 1977, three stamps were issued (Scott 741-3) showing Indian versions of familiar Christmas scenes: a 10-center of hunters following a star; a 12-center showing a_- ghostly angelic choir; a 25- center showing the Christ child as an Indian. Inscriptions on the stamps read '"Christ- masocs Noel? and "'Jesous Atatonhia."' The inscription on the _ Molly Brant stamp will, of course, include that name, plus "postage" and "postes" and Konwatsitsiaienni, the name by which she was known to the Iroquois and which means "someone lends her a . flower." Molly Brant is not the first Indian woman to be honoured on a Canadian stamp. There was the April 24, 1981-17-center (Scott 885) stamp to mark the beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680), the first North American Indian saint. She was a big name in the religious world; Molly Brant was a bigger name in the Indian political world. Molly Brant was a Mohawk Indian, born about 1736. She was the older sister of Joseph Brant (Thayendane- gea), born in 1742. Joseph Brant was more famous; he was . the main chief of the Six Nations Indians. He was educated in a Protestant school at Lebanon, Connecticut. He served as secretary to Sir John Johnson, superintendent of Indian affairs for the part" of British North America that became the 13 states that became the first United States. Moliy became the wife of the consort of Sir William Johnson, depending on who tells the story, probably sometime in 1752. Some say they were married by Mohawk rites; others say there was an arrangement. Whichever, they had at least two sons and six daughters between then and when Sir William died in 1774. She had been the lady of the residence at Fort Johnson at Amsterdam, N.Y., and at Johnson Hall, Johnstown, N.Y. Sir William had a greater partner than he might have imagined, as the Revolutionary War, or the War of Independence, began to shape up. She and her brother took the side of the British during the war and persuaded the Iroquois to be against the "revolutionaries."' How the war went is history - well-known history, except for what happened to_ those staunch allies, the Brants. Molly went to Niagara in 1777, and by 1784 had settled in Cataraqui, as Kingston was. then known. She died there April 16, 1796. She was a figure of great authority with the tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederacy. While she went from Niagara to Kingston, Joseph took his tribe to a large tract of land on the Grand River in Ontario. It's now called, County. never been honoured on a Canadian stamp. Stamp Bulletin." trilingual, but has three images from a design by Sara Tyson: Brant as Iroquois (left profile), as Loyalist (full face), as appropriately, Brant- "European (right ford, situated in Brant profile). The stamp will be printed on Rolland paper by Ashton-Potter Limited Toronto by Joseph Brant has I'm not sure why 1986 : i Ay agin SSIx is the year to honour 1 ise gy y Moily Brant, unless it's pre Cie rae y % SED Only 15 million are to to note the 250th an- hin printed niversary of her birth, if which was not men- As_ I've - hinted, tioned in Canada Post's Canada is subtly doing ""Commemorative tS part in making stamp collecting more reasonable by issuing a reasonable number of stamps each year, and in fewer numbers. The stamp is not only Molly Midiand to approach Tin Midland will approach Tiny to talk about the Town servicing the medical clinic building being built on the township's side of the two municipality's border. Midland has received a letter from the doctors, who will be moving from their offices in Midland, confirming that the doctors will pay the cost of connecting the clinic to the Town's sewage and storm water systems. 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