/ MA Al Federa[ed %me‘fl"s Ingritiites of Ontario 2007 J97D 7250 T999 1889 T9553 12976 1897 7904 rural OMlario sbaring educ 200z C Women‘s Institute Members propose several resolutions, some of which lead to: bread being sold in bags, painting of white lines on highways, and mandatory stopping for school buses with flashing lights. 1969 the Canadian Historical Association awards a certificate _of merit to the Women‘s Institute for their efforts in preserving local history. FWIO purchases the Lee Family Home, and opens the same year as the Erland Lee Museum. 1994 FWIO opens its doors at the new Provincial Office on Wellington Road 30 in Guelph. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless‘ son John dies from drinking impure milk. Adelaide begins her crusade to educate young women. Erland Lee hears Adelaide Hunter Hoodless speak at an agricultural 1896 conference at the Ontario College of Agriculture in Guelph. He invites her to speak to a Farmers Institute Meeting. on February 19th, the first organizationawl meeting of the.Women’s Institute takes place in Stoney Creek, Ontario. Later, Erland Lee and his wife, Janet, draw up the constitution of the Women‘s Institute on their dining (00m table. WI motto "For Home and Country" and the deSsign of a pin are 19053 unveiled at the newly built Macdonald Institute !n Guelph during the 1903 convention. Women‘s Institute celebrates its 110th Birthday! 19]5 ]040Q 1979 ROSE Health Program launched (rural ontario sharing education) theâ€"first issue of Home and Country is published. Laura Rose proposes blue and gold as the official colours of W!â€" All 30,000 members are kept busy knitting socks and shirts to send to menfighting in the War. ation domestic science education by extension (an early form of distance education) is launched between the Macdonald Institute and the Ontario Women‘s Institutes. WI Branches organize themselves in a new way by forming a provincial body: the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario (FWIO). a recently widowed Lady Tweedsmuir approved that the history books of WI Branches should be named after her late husband, and so originated "The Tweedsmulir Village History Books." Calendar Girls is releasedâ€" a motion picture based on a true story of the Rylstone Women‘s Institute in North Yorkshire, England. +a*% '\ . sA 5 *>~, /“ \. .\ O I ':â€_g -"-.': ‘3 /T- ;: s o0 L/3 . y -â€™ï¬ UA B8 n d in Wf as \“.' ~+*~~Ar â€"ATIALMD /‘ x A / LZ / } r e ) /, [ /. intanl iianinlInas ic AGdnswat wat & oo in baipye on alieiees .cc alal wand Erland and Janet Lee (ri an ht), Christina Smith (2nd from right) others from Stoney Creek WI, 1922.