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

Branch 370 has served Iroquois and the surrounding townships of South Dundas for the better part of a century, through the move of the village itself and every change that followed. The branch minute books, charter and photographs are held at the hall rather than online; anyone researching family service history is welcome to telephone and arrange a look through them with an executive member.

What has not changed is the reason the branch exists: remembrance, and practical support for Veterans and their families in a community small enough that everybody knows who needs it.

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. — The banquet hall laid out for a community supper — long tables, stacking chairs and the stage at the far end.

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.

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

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 and the Iroquois lock, a few minutes from the hall.

A single-storey red brick community hall set back from a village road, bare maples on either side. — The hall from the road, between the maples.

Address

24 Dundas StIroquois, Ontario K0E 1K0

Telephone

613-652-4516

District / Zone

District G, Zone 3

Lottery licence

RAF1534821

The Legion name and badge

The Legion name, badge and the poppy are protected marks. Branch 370 uses them only as Dominion and Ontario Command permit, which is why this site identifies the branch in plain type rather than decorating every page with a crest.