What better way to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the W. I. than a visit to the Erland Lee Museum Home? This homestead sits proudly on the ...

On September 21, 2018, Calabogie Ontario was hit by a tornado. Considerable damage was done to houses and trees; even damaging the top of the hydro ...

There is an index at the back of the book Photographs Maps Tweedsmuir History Curators & Committees Officers & Delegates ...

Cheltenham WI Adelaide Hunter Hoodless List of Historical Research Convenors & Book Curators List of Executive of Cheltenham WI 25th Anniversary ...

"Quilted Narratives" - story below Submission part of the WISH challenge for WI's 125th anniversary

creation name: "More than Tea" Three Crown Hill member warriors met to fulfill the challenge currently put forth by the WISH Committee who have ...

Title: The House the Quartet Built! Women’s Institute is all about Family, Home, Country, and Community! The “House the Quartet Built” is made of ...

ASSESSABLE TRANSPORTATION THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY What a fun project this turned out to be, acting like kids again!!! The DAME’S decided we would ...

Bethel Zion Zoomers Clue #2 Fun with Lego The Bethel Zion Zoomers Construction Team gathered at a member's home to build the Village of Wish. ...

GILLIE'S HILL Sitting here trying to make a quilt top scene out of lego brings back fond memories of days done by. Years ago when we had 25 ...

Helping Hand of Friendship This challenge forced our Golden Girls team to think “outside the box” or the walls of the Erland Lee home where W.I. ...

FWIO WISH Clue Two Response: Design in Lego HELPING HANDS In working on this project we were pondering the significance/meaning of our motto ...

Rural Roots: The start of our W.I. was at an apple orchard on York Road which became Highway #2. A gathering of women and some men came out of meet ...

Creation Name: Gardening it's so exciting, you may just wet your plants!! It was a Friday afternoon and the Muskoka Treasure Seekers were just ...

Addie’s Vision You asked what represents WI for the team & me? It’s connecting with new friends & our community. We get together to have ...

Women in Action The Women's Institute (WI) travels to conferences in Ontario, across the country, and around the world. Many different women make ...

“Country Pride – Safety First!” Our LEGO building project catches a glimpse of country life, recreating a rural bus stop and school bus picking up ...

“Century Farm” Women’s Institute was founded February 19, 1897 when Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, a wife and mother spoke at the Farmer’s ...

Who’s on Your Squad? New to Paris, Ontario, and to the Women’s Institute, we, Pamela, Lynne and Sandy, are grateful to the women of WI who warmly ...

WI Lego Our team – “The Hot Wheels” are from the Women Inspiring Women branch of the WI in Brant County. We had a blast reverting to our children’s ...

From Tornado to Tomorrow, through “Friendship‘s Circle Bright” We found out more about each other as we sat around the Lego pile: who knew some ...

The Carleton Country Honey Bees were busy building a Lego creation that represents WI. The Honey Bees got to work sifting through Lego pieces, and ...

HEARTH AND HOME H-heart, homemade, heritage, homestead E-earth day, environment, education, empowerment A-area, archives, agriculture, ...

Story Name – Carefree Playday Living in a rural area has its many advantages like being close to nature, freedom from noise restrictions, space to ...

Activity # 2 – ‘A Common Thread’ Photo: The Sunshine Gals’ free spirit and imagination is captured as they proudly display their completed quilt ...

FRIENDSHIP’S CIRCLE BRIGHT BY TEAM ‘CODRINGTON TREASURE SEEKERS’ Friendships form a very important part of being a WI Member, which influenced our ...

In our submitted photo “Lego Ladies Walking the World” from left to right are: Kate Pratten Burke, Zackery Burke, Cathy Pettinger (President of ...

WHAT A CELEBRATION! On April 21, our most esteemed WI member, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 96th birthday. With a year full of ...

Colpoy’s Bay Community Coming Together It’s April and the WISH Clue #2 has arrived! Our Colpoy’s MIST (Marg, Ingrid, Sharon & Terry) team are ...

We want to tell of the personal growth of women through W.I. We used the growth of plants to illustrate this. Our planter is made up of large Lego ...

“Our WISH for Home and Country” creation name What a fun time the four of us had returning to our youth constructing our Lego creation! While we ...

Title of Project “A goodly thing it is to meet…”1 The Winsome Wanderers had a fun afternoon playing with Lego while discussing the role of Women’s ...

Our creation is named: The Lights on the Bus Go: FLASH, FLASH, FLASH !!! RESOLUTION is defined as: 1) A firm decision to do or not to do ...

From the Table to the ROSE Our LEGO® creation charts the history of the Women’s Institute: from its inception at the signing of the Constitution, to ...

The Circle of Empowerment The Woodland Women Wishers decided, “creativity is not the finding of a thing but making something out of it after it is ...

WI – A Cornucopia of Opportunities! After discussing what WI means to us, our varied opinions made us conclude that WI encompasses all of our ideas ...

When the clue No.2 came out, I knew I did not have any LEGO as my boys did not have any when they were young at that time in their lives. The next ...

The Doorway Throughout our lives we are blessed with many opportunities. Many a door is open for us if only we step over the threshold. WI can ...

Name of our creation:Is it a Bird??? Is it a Plane??? NO!!! it’s SUPER W.I. WOMAN !! Our Lumber Jill from Balsam Hill Has an awesome alter ...

Creation Name: "Country" C is for caring, that’s what we do O is for outreach, we welcome you M is for meals, we prepare and serve M is for ...