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1913 - 2003 (Creation)
- Creator
- Women's Institute, Elba, Mono Township
- Place
- Elba
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Physical description
5 Boxes
4’ 3” of textual records
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Administrative history
The Women's Institute was established on 9 February 1897 by Mrs. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, with assistance from Mr. Erland Lee and his wife Janet in Stoney Creek, Ontario. By 1904, the Ontario Department of Agriculture was funding seven full-time staff to help promote and organize Women's Institute branches in communities across the province. By 1913, Women's Institute branches had opened in each province, and during a provincial representative’s meetings in 1919, the Women's Institute rebranded itself by becoming a federated organization, thus forming the Federated Women's Institute of Canada.
Within Canada, the Women's Institutes governing structure is divided into its existing Provinces, then into Regions, Areas, Districts and Branches. Dufferin District was created in 1902, after Dufferin County welcomed the first four branches of the Women's Institute. Dufferin District operates out of the Central Area in the Western Region of Ontario.
The Elba Branch was organized in 1913 as part of the North-Western edge of Mono Township in Dufferin County. It amalgamated under the Dufferin North District during the 1949 District reorganization, and disbanded in 2003.
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of various documents and records created, collected and maintained by the Women's Institute, Elba Branch for reference.
The fonds is arranged into the following series:
01 - Minute Books
02 - Tweedsmuir Histories
03 - Current Events
04 - Programs
05 - Financial Documents
06 - Miscellaneous
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Immediate source of acquisition
All records were deposited directly by members of the Elba Branch of the Women’s Institute or by Dufferin District Representatives.
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- English
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Open
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Associated materials
Photograph, P-4094 “Photograph, Elba Women’s Institute Members, 1960”
Photograph, P-4674 “Group Photo, Elba Women’s Institute 25th Anniversary, Mono, 1938”
Accruals
2007-183
2007-184
2015-307
Further accruals are expected.