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Year of Meeting |
Date of Meeting |
Location |
Program/Topics |
Files |
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1897 |
Feb 19 |
Squires Hall |
Organization meeting Stoney Creek WI Mrs J Hoodless |
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1897 |
Feb 25 |
Squires Hall |
Constitution adopted Mrs Watson “Foods” Letter from Hon John Dryden |
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1897 |
March 11 |
Squires Hall |
Letter from Hr Hodson, Superintendent of Farmer’s Institutes Mrs JH McNeilly “Proper Food for Children” Mrs GW Millen “Art” |
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1897 |
March 25 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs Murray Pettit “Our Children” Dr Mabel Henderson “The Child in Health and Disease” |
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1897 |
April 7 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs Korer “Women on the Farm” Mrs J Hoodless Mrs Dr McPhedran |
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1897 |
April 22 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs J Dean “Sunshine the light and life-giver” Mrs McNeilly “Hygiene and the word Ralston” |
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1897 |
May 27 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs Erland Lee “Our advantage in joining the Farmers’ Institutes” Miss Mabel Walker “Home Decoration by Girls” Mrs J Dean “the Woman’s Club of Wayleigh” “How to Cool vegetables” “How to make coffee” |
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1897 |
June 3 |
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1st Annual meeting Mrs Melson “Child culture” Miss Lucy King “Fresh Air” |
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1897 |
August - October |
JG Nash home |
Notes on several director’s meetings between Aug and Oct 1897 |
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1897 |
Nov 11 |
Squires Hall |
Open Meeting Adelaide Hoodless |
No notes – referenced in the Director’s Meeting page 2 |
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1897 |
Dec 2 |
Squires Hall |
Miss Corman “Gleaned Thoughts” Miss Lily Haxworth “Training School of Cookery of London” |
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1897 |
Dec 16 |
Dewar’s Hall, Fruitland
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Miss M McNeilly “Housekeeping versus Homemaking” Mrs JW Smith “A talk to the Girls” Mrs Melson “Canning fruit, vegetables, and pickles with Salcylic” |
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1898 |
Jan 13 |
Squires Hall |
Miss A Fenton “How to be Happy though Married” Mrs C Hill “Floriculture” Mrs FM Carpenter “The Science of Keeping Clean in the household” Mrs Erland Lee “Butter-making” |
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1898 |
Jan 27 |
JG Nash home |
Reading meeting |
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1898 |
Feb 10 |
Squires Hall |
Miss A Hill “Fruit as a food and a medicine” Mrs McNeilly “The nourishment in a grain of wheat” Mrs Melson “Potato recipes” |
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1898 |
March 10 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs Erland Lee “Physiology” |
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1898 |
March 24 |
S Melson residence |
Reading meeting |
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1898 |
April 7 |
ED Smith residence |
Reading meeting |
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1898 |
April 14 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs J Dean “Sanitary Hints for housekeepers” Mrs Erland Lee “Butter-making” |
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1898 |
April 28 |
J McNeilly residence |
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1898 |
May 3 |
JG nash residence |
Business meeting |
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1898 |
May 12 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs Carpenter “Woman’s Duties and Possibilities” Miss Corman “Physiology for Beginners” |
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1898 |
May 26 |
JG Nash residence |
Reading meeting |
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1898 |
May 31 |
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Lecture and concert |
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1898 |
June 9 |
Squires Hall |
Annual meeting |
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1898 |
Oct 4 |
JG Nash residence |
Director’s meeting |
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1898 |
Oct 27 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs ED Smith “Sugar and Salt” |
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1898 |
Nov 24 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs Melson “Physiology on the Spine and Ribs” Miss Nettie Millen “A talk to the girls” Mrs G Millen “Wandering Thoughts” |
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1899 |
Jan 12 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs J Hoodless “Institute work” |
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1899 |
Jan 26 - afternoon |
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Miss Nettie Millen “A talk to the girls” Mrs Melson “Physiology” Mrs J Hoodless “The Womens’ Council” |
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1899 |
Jan 26 – evening |
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Open Meeting Mrs JL Smith “A talk to young farmers and their wives” Miss L Rose “Bread and Buttermaking” Mrs Melson “The modern girl” Miss Corman “As the twig is bent the tree inclines” Miss M Nash “Institute Work” |
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1899 |
Feb 9 |
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Mrs Carpenter “Institute Work” Mrs McNeilly “Recipe for oatmeal wafers” Dr Henderson “Neglected Backs” |
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1899 |
Feb 23 |
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Mrs G Millen “Hints for the Institute” Mrs Bradley “Work and Scope of cooking Schools and the advantages of studying food principals in relation to cookery” Mrs S Melson “Physiology” |
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1899 |
March 9 |
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Mrs W Clark “Beff juice and beef tea” Miss F Pettit “A Good Education” Mrs ED Smith “Outdoor rose culture” |
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1899 |
March 23 |
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Mrs Carpenter “The country home” |
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1899 |
April 13 |
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Mrs Bradley “Demonstration of cooking” |
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1899 |
April 27 |
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Mrs McNeilly “Clubs for Women” Mrs Melson “Physiology of the Muscles” |
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1899 |
May 11 |
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Mrs J Rose-Holden “Our daily Bread” |
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1899 |
May 25 |
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Prof WA Watkins “Physical Culture and Hygiene” |
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1899 |
June 8 |
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Miss Lilian F Staples, MLA of Hamilton “Higher Physical Life of Women” |
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1899 |
June 27 |
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Directors Meeting |
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1899 |
July 13 |
JB Davis Park |
Picnic lunch in the park |
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1899 |
Aug 10 |
Melson home |
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1899 |
Sept 14 |
JH McNeilly home |
Mrs J Hoodless “Benefits of training schools” |
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1899 |
Oct 12 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs S Melson “Reading from Tennyson” |
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1899 |
Oct 26 |
Squires Hall |
Miss F Pettit “Drinking Water” Mrs J Jardine “Food Materials and their adulterations” Miss Lilian F Staples “The Nervous System” |
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1899 |
Nov 9 |
Squires Hall |
Miss King “Medical Progress within the last 25 years” Mrs FM Carpenter “Report of National council of Women” Mrs S Melson “Report of New Institute at Whitby” |
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1899 |
Nov 23 |
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C Orr “Pure Air” Mrs N Dean “What Ireland is doing in Poultry Raising” Mrs S Melson “Manners” Mrs ED Smith “Report of National Council” |
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1899 |
Dec 14 |
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Mrs ED Smith “Report of National Council of Women” Miss Laura Rose “Properties and care of Milk” |
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1900 |
Jan 11 |
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Mrs FM Carpenter “Bulb culture” Mrs Erland Lee “Character or Backbone” |
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1900 |
Jan 25 |
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Mrs A Foran “Influence” Mr JH Smith “Canadian Poetry” Mrs Melson “Possiblities” |
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1900 |
Feb 8 |
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Miss N Millen “The Love of Mother” Mrs JH McNeilly “Science and Practice of Poultry-keeping” |
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1900 |
Feb 22 |
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Mrs A Kinney “Domestic Science and the Modern Home” Miss H Corman “Mothers and Daughters” |
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1900 |
March 8 |
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Miss King “St Peters and the Vatican” Mrs FM Carpenter “Care of the Eyes” Mrs FM Carpenter “Ascending the stair” Mrs A Foran “Influences” Mrs J Dean “The T rouble Hunter” Mrs JW Smith “What is cleanliness” |
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1900 |
March 22 |
Squires Hall |
Mrs C Hill “Back yard hygiene” Mrs Wm Rogers “Our Beautiful Home” Miss Ethel Walker “Habits” Miss Corman “Mothers and Daughters” |
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1900 |
April 12 |
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Mrs J Lottridge “How Readied thou” Mrs J Parsons Smith “The Baneful Cigarette” Petition to ban manufacture of cigarettes Miss King “Report of Institutes in Illinois, USA” |
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1900 |
April 26 |
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Mrs JW Smith “A talk to Old Ladies” Mrs W Clark “Pa on the Microbe Theory” Miss A Hill “Cheerfulness”
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1900 |
May 10 |
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Mrs Melson “The safest - women marry” Miss King “Canned fruits and meats” Appointment of a music committee |
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1900 |
May 25 |
ED Smith residence |
Directors meeting |
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1900 |
May 31 |
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Open Meeting Miss Hope, Principal of Technical School of Hamilton “Domestic Science” Captain E Orr – topic not recorded |
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1900 |
June |
JG Nash residence |
Business meeting |
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1897 |
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Constitution of the Charter Branch Women’s Institute (written by Janet Lee) |
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Membership Lists |
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1897 |
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Misc |
