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ERLAND LEE HOMESTEAD The Ontario Women's Institute spent $40,000.00 for the Erland Lee home and is maintaining it as a shrine and Showplace for people to see where the W.I. was born. Mr. Lee was the man who invited Adelaide Hunter Hoodless to speak to 101 women at a ladies' night at the South Wentworth Farmer's Institute February 19, 1897- The immediate result was another meeting held six days later, at which Mrs. Hoodless was elected honorary president and Mrs. E.D. Smith of Winona, president of a new women's organization. Mr. Lee drew up the original constitution and Mrs. Lee handWTOte it at a dining room table in the old house. The home remained in the Lee family until the Federated women's institutes of Ontario (FWIO) bought it, after several years of heartâ€"searching over the problems involved in operating it. They restored it to the 1850's, the era when it was built. Donations of furniture came in from institute members, and some of the Lee furnishings remain including the famous walnut dining room table on which the first Constitution of the Women's Institute was written. The idea to buy the home came to the FWIO originally from the Wentworth County W.I. The county helped the cause, as did Saltfleet Township and Stoney Creek, plus the provâ€" incial home economics branch. The home will be a provincial project for a long time to come. It was officially opened August 9, l973. Rednersville Women's Institute visited the Erland Lee home in June I975. ‘_£ 7'.K V ii? a. Plaque eroded y Ohe Onlurio Archaeological and The Erlund l" ”W"! â€" a side ’4‘”! SWOWiHQ "'5 Hinori: Sims Board a! the Erlund Lea Hama‘ enhance to the apnrlmanl for line hoslen and In "H! Pioneer Kitchen.