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Source : Tweedsmuir
Media Type : Photograph
Physical Description :
Circa : 1975
Author Creator : Jean Saunter
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Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : Mrs. Austin Zoeller, vice president of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, speaking last Wednesday night at the 50th anniversary of Bradford Women's Institute said, "There is no other organization like the W.I. in the whole wide world."
She recalled the W.I. was born on tragedy - the death of a child from drinking impure milk. Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, the founder of the W.I. was the mother of that child.
Mrs. Zoeller told how the secretary of the Farmer's Institute, Erland Lee at Stoney Creek, Ontario, promoted hearing a woman speaker against the wishes of his all-men organization.
Mrs. Hoodless, that speaker, made a dynamic speech. Lee told the men after if they believe it important to have an organization to learn how to feed their animals, then it was equally important their wives have an organization to educate themselves on how to feed their families.
And so the Women's Institute was organized in 1897 through the efforts of Mrs. Hoodless and Erland Lee.
Nutrition, at home and abroad still tops the many-facet program of the W.I. today, Mrs. Zoeller pointed out.
Ontario has just completed province-wide nutrition workshops. The Institutes of Ontario have educated nine girls in food preservation who are working in India; two mid-wives in Turkey and a nutrition project is going on in South Africa.
These and other projects for the developing countries are made possible from the interest on a $50,000 fund contributed to by all Ontario Institutes.
Mrs. Zoeller said information in the community Tweedsmuir History books completed by W.I. branches is the best obtainable anywhere. The histories are recognized by the Ministry of Education and used widely for research by students.
"No other organization is quite so flexible as the W.I.," the speaker said, "working not only in the field of nutrition and home economies, but in agriculture, immigration and citizenship as well.
"We are lucky women to be so strong and have so much to give in a collective way," Mrs. Zoeller said in conclusion.
This newspaper article is from the Bradford Womens Institute Scrapbooks.