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How much history can you have in a hundred years? (Bruce Cockburn, 1972) Apart from the fact that it has been almost 380 years since the establishment of the Company of Good Cheer, Ontario is celebrating her bicentennial next year. Two hundred years it will have been since the Loyalists settled in this end of what was then part of the old Province of Quebec. With us for our March meeting will be Dorothy Duncan, the Executive Director of the Ontario Historical Society. Dorothy will be showing slides and discussing what other organizations across the provinces are planning to celebrate the occasion. (1984 also marks the tenth anniversary of regional government in Halton but there appears to be a distinct lack of interest in festivities for this local decennary!) Maybe we'll get the opportunity to toss around some ideas for special projects which we as a Society could be doing. That's Dorothy Duncan of the Ontario Historical Society, Wednesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Knox Presbyterian Church, Georgetown. AND COMING IN APRIL! The ideals of the nineteenth-century "Age of Improvement and the recreational pastimes of the "leisurely" and the "labourly" in the first decades after Confederation, the growing availability of leisure time and the apprehensions about its influence upon the moral and physical character of the new Canadian nation are the central themes of the lecture to be given by Mary Jones, Co-ordinator of School Services, Extension Services Department of the Royal Ontario Museum. This lecture is being co-sponsored by the Esquesing Historical Society and the Halton Hills Public Libraries. Because of this the regular meeting of the Society for April will take place in the Gallery of the Library and Cultural Centre at the regular time, Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. The talk compliments the circulating exhibition from the ROM entitled "Confederation Generation". It is designed to appeal to those with a general interest or knowledge in the field of Canadian history, although the information presented is subtle enough that even those with a more specialized knowledge in the field will find considerable outlets for their interest. The exhibit serves as an introduction to our social history. The quixotic and