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1908-1994 (Creation)
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18 v. of textual records and graphic material
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The Millbank Women’s Institute was formed in the village of Millbank in the former Mornington Township in Perth County on March 13, 1908. The first president was Mrs. W. D. Houston and secretary- treasurer was Miss Olive Babb. The Millbank Women’s Institute disbanded on October 27, 1994. The first Women’s Institute in Ontario was established in 1897 by Adelaide Hunter Hoodless in Stoney Creek. Farmers’ Institutes had been established in Ontario in the 1890s to educate men about agricultural practices. The Women’s Institutes focussed on home economics and cultural activities. In 1919, the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada was formed at a meeting of provincial representatives as a co-ordinating body. The Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario was founded the same year. The Ontario government created an Institutes Branch in the Department of Agriculture in 1894 to supervise and regulate the Farmers Institutes. By 1920, the Farmers’ Institutes had disbanded and the branch concerned itself with directing Women’s Institutes. It was called the Women’s Institute branch, the Home Economics Branch and the Rural Organizations and Services Branch at different periods in its history. The Branch offered course in home economics in partnership with the institutes. It also supported the activities of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario. In 1925, the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario established a standing committee for historical research and current events. In the mid-1930s, the wife of Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada from 1935-1940, suggested that all Women’s Institutes create local history books. These became known as the Tweedsmuir histories.
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The records of the Millbank Women’s Institute were generally in the possession of the secretary of the Institute until they were donated to the Stratford-Perth Archives, Listowel Branch.
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Fonds consists of records of the Millbank Women’s Institute including minute books and the Millbank Women’s Institute Tweedsmuir history. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Minutes Tweedsmuir history
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Records were donated to the Stratford-Perth Archives, Listowel Branch by members of the Millbank Women’s Institute.
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Copyright held by creator. These materials cannot be published without permission of the copyright holder.
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