After spending the war years in volunteer work for the Red Cross, women of the community of Crinan formed their Women's Institute branch on Apr. 24, 1919. They have produced two Tweedsmuir volumes.

Vol. 1 This first volume was compiled between 1947 and 1974 and has many farm, church and school histories. There are a number of anecdotes about life in this community in both pioneer times and later.

This branch was organized in June of 1906 and remained active until 1977. The Rodney Tweedsmuir History is a single volume containing over 320 pages and contains a large collection of vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as histories rich in detail about life in Rodney.

WEST LORNE

This branch was organized on Jan. 29, 1913, and remains active. The first volume was started in 1947. Of the four volumes completed, only three are included in the project as Volume two has been stored in another facility and is unavailable.

Vol. 1 Many pages have been beautifully hand decorated, by Alice Meek RN, who has also hand-tinted a number of the black and white images presented in the volume.