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      The Elgin County Pioneer Museum, 32 Talbot Street, St Thomas was founded in 1957. www.elgincounty.ca/archives (Click on “Collections” in blue banner menu; click on blue”on-line database”; in search line, type in “elgin county pioneer museum- there are 239 results. i.e. things in archives) http://www.elginhistoricalsociety.ca/video-tags/st-thomas (Elgin County Pioneer Museum 30th Anniversary, ...

      In 1967, the Lee family home (not yet a museum) was designated by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. Erland and Janet’s daughter and daughter-in-law, Marjorie Lee and Katherine Lee respectively, were present at the unveiling of the sign, which was placed in front of the home at the ...

      This is an article that outlines the history of the Elgin County Museum from 1946 to 2006.

      This red brick school house, S.S No 2 Admaston is maintained by Balsam Hill - Horton Women's Institute. Each spring students from Renfrew County can come to experience a day in a one-room school. W.I. members who are retired school teachers, teach memory work, writing with ink pens and roman ...

      Mountview Women’s Institute Hall Country Heritage Park – Milton, Ontario This small frame building built in 1838 on Ferris Lawrence’s property, was one of the first rural churches in Central Ontario. It was located on Concession 2 in Trafalgar Township on the corner of what is now Winston Churchill Boulevard ...

      This plaque, mounted on a stone cairn, was placed at the roadside in front of the Erland Lee (Museum) Home in 1961, while it was still a private residence. It reads "In memory of Erland Lee and his wife, Janet, who pioneered the first Women's Institute - now world-wide - ...

      - Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario 1981 Calendar, featuring photos of WI events and activities - E.D. Smith 90th Anniversary booklet, 20 pages, includes a history of the company from 1882-1972 - Letter from E. Llewellyn G. Smith introducing the booklet, dated May 1st, 1972 - Booklet, “History of Wentworth ...

      Women's Institute 100th Anniversary, 1897-1997, Tweedsmuir History of anniversary cards & letters received Compiled during the Centennial Year, 1997 at the Erland Lee (Museum) Home Stoney Creek, ON Compiled by Mary Kneebone, Curator, Erland Lee (Museum) Home - Various cards, photogaphs, programs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence from FWIC, ACWW, and ...

      Plaque reads: "Prince Edward District Women's Institute 100th Anniversary 1908-2008 Rednersville Branch"

      This volume is a scrapbook to commemorate the Centenary of the Women's Institutes Movement and was sent to FWIO by the Glamorgan Federation of Women's Institutes (Wales, United Kingdom). The book consists of a scrapbook of photographs and descriptions portraying the Centenary celebrations held by the branches within the Glamorgan ...

      Stoney Creek WI Scrapbook, 1940-59 - "Five-year Farm Recreation Plan" article with caption "What a united community can do" - Newspaper clippings related to various local WI branches: - St. George - Troy - Community Beach - Caledonia - Rockton - Binbrook - Woodburn - Ira Brock - Patricia - ...

      Plaque reads: "Prince Edward District Women's Institute 100th Anniversary 1908-2008 Mountain View Branch

      This is a scrapbook compiled between 1967 and 1979 by Lorna M. Rogers, President of the Stoney Creek branch of the Women's Institutes. It contains: - Invitation to Stoney Creek Jubilee Banquet, 1947 - Photo of Charter Members (?) in 1947 (?) - "Stoney Creek W.I. Annual Dinner" article, no ...

 Bruce County District Women's Institute, Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), [1932] - [1996]     List of District President's 1938-1987 District President's 1938-1980 List of Bruce County Scholarship Winners District Director's Meetings 1946-1996 District Annuals 1942 - 1995 Programme Duties Bruce South List of Voting Delegate to Area 1958-1988 Federated Representative 1958-1981 Federation of Agriculture Representative 1958-1977 Public Relations Officer 1958-1986 Agriculture & Canadian Industries ...

 Wilton Grove Women's Institute, Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), [1958]-[1985]     Description - Table of Contents - Pictures of Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir - “Foreword” Written by Lady Tweedsmuir - Biography – Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir - Biography & Picture - Adelaide Hunter Hoodless - Brochure – The Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead - Biography & Picture – Erland Lee - The ...

 Malcolm Women's Institute, Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), [1969]-[1982]     Malcolm WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 4 - Malcolm WI Bus trips, 1969-77 - Grandmother's Meeting, 1967 - 75th anniversary of WI, 1972 - Malcolm WI 25th anniversary, 1979 - Malcolm WI 10th anniversary, 1964 - Picnic, 1979 - 85th anniversary of WI, 1982 - Malcolm cairn, bell stolen in ...

      Saltfleet WI International Women's Year Scrapbook, 1975 - List of names: Mr. A.G. (Peg) Brody?, Mrs. C Kott (Marie), Mrs. Dorothy Lockhart, Mrs. S Leavens (Margory), Mrs. C Kott (Marie), Mrs. A.M. Oswald (Bertha) - Obituary for Miss Pearl Krick, 1970 - Envelope containing "for Bertha: Write-up of W.I. in ...

      Stoney Creek WI Scrapbook by F.B. Nash, 1897-1962 - "A Prayer" by Rev. W.A. Young, Women's Institute Holiday, Guelph - Program for "Scholarship Award Banquet," OAC, 1962 (24 pages) - Program for "Scholarship Award Banquet," OAC, 1963 (24 pages) - Program for "Scholarship Award Banquet," OAC, 1964 (24 pages) - ...

 Wilton Grove Women's Institute, Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), [1969]-[1989]     Wilton Grove WI Scrapbook - Official opening of Pond Mills School, 1956 - Official opening of Arthur Stringer Public School, 1969 - Wilton Grove Senior Public School official opening, 1973 - Canada Day, in Honour of the Triennial Conference, ACWW, 1953 - 85th Anniversary Luncheon, 1982 - Elgin County WI ...

 Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), [1961]-[1972]     Sidney South WI Tweedsmuir Community History - Local, District, AGM Agendas, 1961-71 Note: Many of the pages have handwritten notes to expand upon the newspaper clippings. - Letter to Mrs. Fred Meens from Helen McKercher regarding the launch of the Sidney South branch, 1961 - Booklet: "The Wiser's Canadiana Collection ...