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Federated Writer/2’5 .Ingn'rzrfes 12/ On [an‘o _, I889 7897 7904 79/6 7955 7950.6 1922 7999 2007 Women’s lnstitutecelebrates its 110th Birthday! 8 240m “W‘eznils‘sfi‘w * .I' 1 /l"i 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 conference at the Ontario College of Agriculture in Guelph. He invites her to speak to a Farmers institute Meeting. [6’96 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 room table. Wl motto "For Home and Country” and the design of a pin are unveiled at the newly built Macdonald institute in Guelph during the 1903 convention. 7903 Laura Rose proposes blue and gold as the official colours of WI. domestic science education by extension (an early form of distance education) is launched between the Macdonald institute and the Ontario Women’s institutes. 7975 All 30,000 members are kept busy knitting socks and shirts to send to men fighting in the War. WI Branches organize themselves in a new way by formin provincial body: the Federated Women's institutes of Ontario (FWIO). 79/9 the first issue of Home and Country is published. a recently widowed Lady Tweedsmuir approved that the history books of WI Branches should be named after her late husband, and so originated "The Tweedsmuir Village History Books.” 7940 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. 7962 FWIO purchases the Lee Family Home, and opens the same year as the Erland Lee Museum. FWiO opens its doors at the new Provincial 7994 Wellington Road 30 in Guelph. the Canadian Historical Association awards a certificate of merit to the Women’s Institute for their efforts in preserving local history. Office on ROSE Health Program launched (rural ontario sharing education) ‘ :Calendar Girls is released- a motion picture based on a true story of the Rylstone Women’s institute in North Yorkshire, England. . 2003