Some of the Chapter Projects
 

Literacy Project – University of Victoria
Each year New Caledonia Chapter offers an award in the form of a book to an American Studies student at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. The recipient is recommended by a UV department head and invited to a meeting. General guidelines for the selection are a hardbound, high quality keepsake book. Chairman and Convener - Beverley Straub Watkins – Vice Regent

Books for DAR Schools – “Canadian Content Books for DAR Schools”
We collect Canadian-authored children’s books for our chapter's DAR School Project. The chapter’s mandate "Hands Across the Border" is expressed through our book project. It is hoped our gift of “Canadian Content Children’s Books” will promote an understanding of cultural identities and diversity among young people. This project creates a venue for good will and understanding between citizens of Canada and the United States. In keeping with the NSDAR Literacy Promotion Committee, we encourage literacy skills by providing children with interesting, informative ,and educational Canadian children’s books. Chairman Lil Heselton – Registrar

Women’s Issues - Surrey Women’s Centre – “Hands to Hold ~ Gifts of Comfort”
The chapter project “Gifts of Comfort” reaches out to the local women’s community and the Surrey Women’s Centre.  We donate annually “Comfort Bags” filled with useful personal care items. The pink flowered-cotton bags, handmade by a few of the members, are both useful and appealing. Chairman Lorraine Sharpe – Recording. Secretary

Chapter Family Bible Project
One of the ways to preserve history is to copy family Bible records to send to the NSDAR Library in Washington, DC.
Convener Edi Irwin

Tri Stake Genealogy Seminar
New Caledonia Chapter annually sponsors an information table at the local LDS Genealogical Seminar. We always bring along the DAR Patriot Index for folks to browse through. It usually draws quite a lot of interest. Our chapter Registrar Lil Heselton has been a seminar lecturer. Last year topics were: “US Migration Patterns – How to Find Your Ancestors” and “Finding Your Ancestors' Revolutionary War and Civil War papers.”

Chapter History Scrapbook
In 2005, former chapter vice regent Beverley Watkins arranged a scrapbook workshop in Victoria and we began the task of creating a history of the New Caledonia Chapter. The beauty of these 12 x 12” scrapbooks is the acid and lignin-free decorated pages that are slipped into clear top-folding protector sheets. 
 

Revised: January 18, 2008
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