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ADELAIDE HUNTER HOODLESS ADELAIDE HUNTER HOODLESS 1857- 1910 Born near St. George in Brant County, Adelaig' Hoodless was motivated to her advocate role when hr youngest son died in infancy after drinking impure m“, She organized Household Science classes at the HM ' in Hamilton and persuaded the Province of Ontario undertake a provinceâ€"wide program. She int‘luem Lord Strathcona to assist in financing the Ontario N: mal School of Domestic Science and Arts in Hamilton 1900. Mrs. Hoodless prevailed upon Sir William M. donald, the tobacco millionaire, to contribute financi; to the establishment of Macdonald Institute in Gull and Macdonald College in Quebec. Mrs. Hoodless is perhaps best known as the inspi- tion behind the Women’s Institute movement. A]- with Erland Lee, she drafted the charter for the org: Tation and helped organize the first Institute at Squi: Hall, Stoney Creek. That meeting, February 19, I. opened the way for the Federated Women’s Institute Canada and internationally, the Associated Ci. trywomen ol‘ the World. Adelaide Hoodless was national president of YWCA in 1898 and a member of the founding exact of the Victorian Order of Nurses in 1897. 1981. sponsored by the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario. i 24 -' a 1‘ . r V ‘ _ ‘ est 51 . . MRS. ADELAIDE HOODLESS ‘ “.‘ ' ' . i- "fn I'l't'uyiiiiiun uf’Scrrii‘o m Onlurin Agricuiuu‘u" L ‘ ‘ ‘7 J 1 - i . r ‘ . f I E _, :7 ._ _ e, I l Mrs, Hoodless was one ofOntario's Pioneers honored on Mrs: Earl Morden. retiring Dircrmr. Hall of From June 2. l98| at the unveiling ceremony at the Ontario satiation: Mrs. Keith Hiepleh, FWIO President; J; Agricultural Hall of Fame, at the Agricultural Museum, [‘let‘lt’d Direc‘wr to the Association. Mrs, Owen Hum Milton. The sketches rendered by artist. Bruce Lepper. and Asmciale Director of the Home Economics Br Willuwdale, along with an accompanying plaque, are now Miss Lorraine Holding 5mm! in from of the recent/i on View at the Museum in the Hall ofFume Gallery. veiled likeness of Mrs. Hoodiess. -' W ‘. . ->- ,, Pictured are some of the Women’s Institute members attending the unveiling ceremony. 18