Fab Four Clue #2

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Our WI Community

This is what comes to mind when we think of WI - a village or community where women live, gather together, support each other and their surrounding community. WI meetings got its start in small farming communities and spread around the world.

With the LEGO, we wanted to show where it all started. Stoney Creek Ontario, where the WI got started was a farming community. The LEGO community we built has a church, a school, a community centre, a general store, two (2) farm houses and a barn. This is our idea of a WI community looks like.

To honour the place WI got started we named the school Stoney Creek School and to honour the women who started the WI, we named one of the farms Erlee Farm for the founders Erland and Janet Lee and the other Adelai Farm in to honour Adelaide Hoodless the speaker at the first meeting. Ms. Hoodless spoke "on the importance of women engaging in formal domestic education and organizing a unified voice to advocate in the areas of education, family health and community service to improve the lives of their families, the families in their communities, and families across Canada."

WI helped revitalize the rural community and to help produce more food during World War I. WI grew from that and supported other organizations, Xmas food baskets, 4-H, school bursaries among many other activities. Our LEGO village showed the " roots".

https://www.fwic.ca/history#:~:text=The%20first%20Women's%20Institute%20was,the%20areas%20of%20education%2C%20family

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