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~< HISTORY OFt'I'EE FOUNDING 0F NOMENS' INSTITUTES IN ONTARIO minim. In honour of the Golden Jubilee ofi Womens' Institutes in _0ntario on June 18th 1947, the following paper was prepared by Mrs. Temple clerk of Lucknow and read at‘a banquet held in the Town Hall to commemorate the event. " As we celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Womens' Institutes]. in Ontario, we have a £eeli'ng of pride in the work which has been accomplished since the founding of the first ~.Momene' Institute on February 19th 1897. since that time our organization has grévm to 3000 Institutes in Canada with a membership of over 70,000 women including many War Brides who came from British Womene' Institutes and Joined the Institutes in their District. I would like at this time to read from the Federated News on account of the founding of the first Womens' . Institute. In the city of Hamilton Ontario, more than forty years ago the first born son of a young mother died at the age of eighteen months. This baby had been born in a happy home under comfortable circumstances and Was a beautiful. healthy baby. "Nhy did I have to lose my baby?" wee the question that throbbed through the brain of the grief-stricken mother, and because this mother the late Mrs. John Hoodleee wife of a prominent manufacturer and merchant of Hamilton, was en euuceted, thinking women, she traced the cause of the child's death to impure milk. 1 She realized that if more care had been taken with the food, she neefllot have lost her son and she made a vow to devote her life to the work of bringing other mothers information about the proper care and feeding of their children. Lire. hoodless began her work towards this ideal with the school curriculum. she started an agitation to have Domestic Science taught in Hamilton Public Schools With the coâ€"operction or her husband who 11:73 Chairman or the Kanilgon Board of fiduchtion. She finally succeeded. the need for JOAufiStiC 3sience teachn‘s. Ajnin characteristic