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W) birthplace opens If]? arri'hi' ririii7sraai'aij _ Gii7faFiiFiis Chis- holm Lee, both of Hamilton, are daughters of Er. land Lee and were born in the Lee house, A Women’s Wilma member, in game costume, stands in front of the Erland Lee Home in gi7fiif"cFeTii. STONEY CRE.EK _ The 0 n t a r i D Women's Institute has spent $40,000 for the Er- land Lee home and plans In maintain it as a shrine and Showplace for people to see where the WI was born. The immediate result was another meeting, held six days later, at which Mrs. Headless was elected honorary president and Mrs. E. D, Smith of Winona, president of a new women's organization. Mrs. Austin Zneller nE New Hamburg, chairman DI the Erland Lee Home committee, says Mr. Lee drew up the or'e ginal constitution and Mrs. Lee handwrole it at a dining room table in the old house. Mr. Lee was the man who invited Adelaide Hunter Hond- less to speak to 101 Women at a ladies' night at the South Wmtworth Farmers' In s t i- tate Feb. 19, 1897. Mrs. Zneller says the Mme remained in the Lee family until the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario (FWIO) bought it, after several years of heart-searching over the pmbjems involved in operat- They are restoring it to the 1850s, the era when it was hum. She says donations or furniture have came in irom , Mrs. Zoeller says one mem- ber donated $5,000 aM the National Federation of Wom- en’s Institutes in England sent SIN, As yet, it is being main. tained on the proceeds at a donations box and volunteer help. . The 30,000 members in the province are being assessed 10 cents a year each to build a maintenance fund. but that takes time, and the federation is hoping for some interim help [tom the secretary of state. institute members. and the bedrooms and dining mom nuw are conlpleleA Before the official opening this week, Mrs. Zoeller said several hundred people had ttg? gone through it every wee . The idea to buy the home came to the FWIO originally irorn the Wentworth County chapter. The county has helped the cause. as have Saltfleet Township and Stoney Creek, plus the provincial home eco- nomlcs branch. The rest has been raised by the FWIO and she says the Mme will be a provincial project for a lung time to