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ADELAIDE HUNTER HOODLESS ' ADELAIDE HUNTER HOODLESS WAS &A WOMAN OF INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION;but when her first baby died she felt that he might have livedif she had known more about how to take care of a baby.So she lead a campaign for clean milk in her city of Heamilton,and a crusade to have homemakingâ€" Household Scienceâ€" included in every girl‘s education in public school, ._ with special courses available at colleges ans universities.All of this was accomplished before her death at the age of fiftyâ€" two.She died Feb. £5,1910. Mrs. Hoodless also wanted homemaking education for women who were already mothers of young children. She spoke of this at a meeting of Ontario Farmers‘ Experimental Union;and Erland Lee, a young farmer of Stoney Creek, offered to organize a meeting of the women of his townâ€" ship, Saltfleet, if Mrs. Hoodless would speak to them.Following this meeting the world‘s first WOMEN‘S INSTITUTE was organized at STONEY CREEK ONTARIO, on February 19th,1897.Its purpose: BETTER HOMES AND A BETTER COMMUNITY LIFE. NS sreersrear oo 5 * \L"\ g*y%\'zlfi}a.. 5 fi’:“ S ":‘;"’7 x a "%%fiafiéfifibfifl%fiffiffl §%§3. <~" e ie * â€" i e hhoate . :s . o en Anaaee . .. > Sm e e a © wy .. oys ie t o s ymal No o 4. _ e e e * Clb d& 0K oi â€" T . #â€" 45 . e ol ce bit mc e â€" Th ; pmr io T71 ho rerre ns 0_ Pracs e 8 en ts meaeleg > ut uic es e s > > _ simipr ce The Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead,the birthplace of the founder of Women‘s Institutes St. George,Ontario,Brant County,Canada The Homestead was purchased by the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Canada and is being restore@ in the period when Adelaide Hunter Hoodless lived herse(1858â€"1910)This is a project of all Women‘s Institutes.