Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Community History: Volume 3, Activities

Publication: Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON), [1984]-[2011]

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Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 3: WI Activities

This volume contains photos with captions and writeups about various Brooksdale WI events in the 1980s-2000s
- Mayor's (Wallis Hammond) welcome address from the presentation of Youngsville historical plaque, 1984
- Photos of the ceremony and reception for the Youngsville plaque
- Photos of WI displays at Embro Fair, 1984
- Brooksdale WI Bus trip to Burgessville School Museum, 1984
- Institute Picnic at Charles and Margaret Lupton's, 1985
- Tweedsmuir Committee Attends 100th Birthday (of Mrs. Ida (Wallace) Munro) and Garden Party, 1985
- Brooksdale WI Sponsors 2 Contestants for 1985 Embro Fair Queen
- Embro Fair Float, 1985
- Smocking Course, 1985
- Institute Picnic, July 1986
- Annual Picnic at Margaret Lupton's, 1986
- 1986/1987 Projects - "Sleeping Children Around the World"
- 1987 Annual Banquet
- Embro Fair, 1987
- 65th Anniversary Meeting, 1987
- 1988 Project, "Sleeping Children Around the World"
- Brooksdale WI erects signs in 1988 at the entrances to Brooksdale
- 1988 Annual Banquet
- Embro Fair 1988
- Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Tea, 1990
- Making Carrot Pudding for Caledonian Supper
- WI Tree Planting, 1991
- Embro Fair, 1991
- 1991 Project for London's Childrens Hospital
- "Wardrobe Wizardry" Short Course, November 1991
- 1992/1993 Projects, "Sleeping Children Around the World"
- 70th Anniversary Tea, January 1993
- Oxford North District WI at the 1980 Ploughing Match
- Quilting Course, November 1981
- Oxford North District Celebrate FWIO 75th Anniversary
- 60th Anniversary Meeting, January 1983
- Embro 125th Anniversary, June 1983
- WI Activities, 1983
- Annual Banquet, March 1984
-Embro Fair, 1993
- 1994 Project for London's Children Hospital
- Brooksdale WI sponsored 2 contestants for the 1994 Embro Fair Queen Competition
- 1994/1995 Projects, "Sleeping Children Around the World"
- Tweedsmuir Tea, January 1995
- 1995 Embro Fair Queen
- Tweedsmuir Meeting, February 1996
- Display of wedding dresses and wedding veils

4-H Activities
- Early Courses before the Organization of 4-H
- Girl's Club Work, 1926-1941
- 51st Anniversary of Brooksdale 4-H, May 1986
- Girl's Club Work, 1941-1956
- Brooksdale 4-H at the Embro Fair Parade, September 1976
- Newspaper clippings about local 4-H activities, 1930s-1970s
- Girl's Club Work, 1961-1980
- 4-H 1972, 1980, 1983
- 4-H certificate presentations, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984
- Brooksdale 4-H projects, 1993
- Bennington 4-H Calf Club, Embro Fair, Awards Night, 1982, 1983, 1984
- Scholarship Winners, 1976-1989

Brooksdale History
- Dr. Gordon Murray
- "The Woman in Ward F" article
- Articles about Dr. Gordon Murray
- Dr. Hugh McKay McLeod
- Nicknames in Zorra, written in 1946
- Highlights of B.W.I. History--Beginning of Historical Research
- Postal Service History
- Red Cross and the Brooksdale WI
- Lot 33, Con. 3
- 100th Birthday of Helen McWilliam (Smith) McLeod, 1992
- WI Activities, 1943
- Lot 24, Con. 6
- Local Achievements

Community Activities
- International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981
- "Getting Ready for Christmas" December 1982
- Brooksdale WI donates to the Family and Children's Services of Oxford County
- Brooksdale WI Banquet, March 1993
- Summer Trip to St. Thomas, Port Stanley, and Sparta, August 1993
- Sewing Machines for Zorra Highland Park School, 1996
- Tweedsmuir Day, February 1996
- Brooksdale WI Banquet and Annual Meeting, 1996
- Brooksdale WI Celebrates 100 Years of WI, February 1997
- Collection of articles made by Brooksdale WI members for the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario
- FWIC Convention, Hamilton, 1997
- Fair Queens, 1997
- London Area Convention, October 1997
- BWI Visits Mary Innes, Charter Member, 1998
- A Brief Biography of Frances Irene Rowland
- Hats from the Turn of the Century, April 2000
- Brooksdale WI Members' Banquet, 1989

WI Life Members
- List of Life Memberships presented to BWI members, 1983-1993
- Photos of presentation of Life Memberships

- Presidents of Brooksdale WI, 1984-2011

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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario

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[1984]-[2011]

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English

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Brooksdale

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.23339 Longitude: -80.93302

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