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3 4 ] ¢~ mesk." ] d is y ',4,:0('\:1'\!'(%()' I ORIGIN AND GROQOWTH OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES e with Mrs. D. J. Piper as President and Mrs, D. C, Garver < ~'\I@;\:' P e} r,ffiq%flffi as Secretary, Today there are 22 branches with a membership n (-:)'CM"\«' of over 700 working harmoniously under the able leadership The first WOMEN'S INSTITUTEE was established on of the regularly elected President and Secretary. February 19, 1897, at Stoney Creek, Saltfleet Township, Wentworth County, Ontario, by Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless of Our Motto is FOR HOME AND COUNTRY; Hamilton. Our objectives are: This remarkable woman felt that rural women needed 1. To help women acquire sound and approved practices some kind of association in which they could work and for greater home efficiency. study together to raise the standard of homemaking. The 2. To discover, stimulate and train leadership. response of rural women to her plan to unite was immediate 3. To develop a more abundant life in our rural and organization of new Institutes went on at a brisk rate. communities and a deeper appreciation of the things T Six years after the birth of the movement in Stoney Creek | near at hand. l there were over fifty similar groups in Ontario. Today 4. To develop better, happier and more useful citizens. 1 the number of these organizations has passed the 1 , 400 mark with a membership of nearly 50,000 women. The movement has also spread to the other provinces and to STONEY CREEK, where many other countries of the worla. , the first Women's Institute in the world In June, 1906, the Women's Institutes were brought to was founded. Thunder Bay by Miss Laura Rose of Guelph, At that time Institutes were organized at Slate River Valley, Murillo, Hymers, Dorion and Ouimet. Many other groups soon followed and on May 31, 1908, George Putnam, Superintendent of . Women's Institutes organized the District of Thunder Bay ' -- 1 ' ~\ 7 : | ll bnuneg: ** boomeger-- | i i