Branch 370

Our branch

A licensed lounge, a banquet hall, and the place a good deal of village life happens to take place.

Iroquois is a village of about 1,406 people on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, in the Municipality of South Dundas. It is a village that was physically moved — lifted and rebuilt on higher ground in the 1950s when the Seaway came through. That is not our story to tell in detail, but it explains why the streetscape looks the way it does, and why the Legion hall sits where it sits.

Branch 370 runs a licensed bar and lounge and a banquet hall at 24 Dundas Street. The Iroquois-Matilda Lions Club meets here. Once a year the Iroquois Amateur Radio Club fills the hall with its Hamfest and flea market, and the parking lot fills with antennas. In between there are meat draws, celebrations of life, anniversaries, dinners and the ordinary business of a branch that has been here a long time.

Our history

Not yet documented

We have not published a founding year, a list of past presidents or a war-service history, because the branch does not yet hold a verified record of them and we are not prepared to guess. Three-hundred-series branch numbers generally date to the 1930s and 1940s, but "generally" is not good enough for a page like this one. When branch records or Ontario Command confirm the detail, it will appear here.

Community groups at the hall

MonthlyIroquois-Matilda Lions Club
Meets at the branch. A service club with its own long record in South Dundas.
AnnuallyIroquois Amateur Radio Club Hamfest & Flea Market
The one day a year the hall is full of radios. The club runs its own 50/50 at that event — theirs, not ours, and unrelated to the branch raffle.
RegularlyMeat draws and community dinners
The staple of branch fundraising in eastern Ontario, and the reason a lot of people first walk through the door.
SeasonalRemembrance Day ceremony
The most important day in the branch year. See Remembrance & the Poppy Fund.

A community hall banquet room laid out for a supper: long folding tables under white cloths, rows of stacking chairs, a plain stage at the far end, late afternoon light across the floor. — Illustrative image, not a photograph of the Branch 370 hall. Photographs of the hall interior, exterior and community events are to be supplied by the branch, with written descriptions and any model releases required.

A low brick hall at dusk in winter, warm light in a row of small windows, thin snow on the ground. — A hall with the lights on, on a Friday in February. Illustrative image.

The wide main street of a small eastern Ontario village: low brick storefronts, hydro poles and an empty road under grey cloud. — The kind of street the branch sits on. Illustrative image.

A wide slow river under pale overcast sky, with the concrete walls and low gates of a lock in the middle distance. — The St. Lawrence, a few minutes from the hall. Illustrative image.

A single-storey red brick community hall set back from a village road, bare maples on either side. — Illustrative image, not 24 Dundas Street.

Address

24 Dundas StIroquois, Ontario K0E 1K0

Telephone

613-652-4516

Founded

TBCRecords being confirmed

District / Zone

TBCRe-verification with Command outstanding

About our branding

You will notice this site carries no Legion crest and no poppy artwork. The Legion name, badge and poppy are protected marks, and reproducing them requires written permission from Dominion and Ontario Command. Until that permission is on file we identify ourselves in plain type. It is the correct way round, even if it looks plainer.