Front: Large group of Iroquoian men, women and children in traditional dress. A dignitary, Chief Poking Fire, sits in a chair while all others stand or sit on the ground. The following Globe and Mail (19 May 1939) article, on page 19 of the issue, states that 300 members of the Pipe of Peace Clan came to Montreal for the Royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Lady Roddick gave them leave to set up themselves and a tribute to the Royals on her lawn. Article: Iroquois Clan Cheers as King and Queen Pass Montreal, May 18 (Staff).—There was a totem pole today along the Royal route—a pole which would put any of those you might see at Jasper Park to shame. At its foot was inscribed: “This was dedicated at Caughnawaga to the Great White Father on his Coronation Day, May 12, 1917, by the Iroquois of the Pipe of Peace Clan.” A flag had been raised on the spot, a flag covered with animal figures, and a note underneath it read: “This is the flag of the Iroquois, the oldest League of Nations in the world, a League of the Mohawks, Cayugah, Oneidas, Senecas, Onondagas and Takakoras.” Two wigwams had been erected and soon Indians in gorgeous garb with handsome headdresses and lots of beads, began to arrive. They were from the Caughnawaga Reservation, Iroquois of the Pipe of Peace clan who had come down from their reservation to pay their own tribute and offer their allegiance in their own way to the “Great White Father.” Rumor has it that Chief Poking Fire had asked to be presented to His Majesty, and that he had urged a special place in the Montreal ceremonies be set aside for the clan. Report is that he was refused his request and that Lady Roddick, wife of the late Sir Thomas Roddick, a famous surgeon on the McGill University staff, and in whose honor the McGill gates were named, offered her spacious lawn to accommodate the clan. Today the clan came with 300 of its members in six trucks and set up an Indian reservation on Lady Roddick’s land. And no group in the whole city paid allegiance with more fervor than these Iroquois who beat their tom-toms and burst into cheering as the King and Queen drove by. Back: