Erland Lee Museum - National Historic Site

    Submission part of the Wish challenge for WI's 125th anniversary

    This document consists of the 1897 Women's Institute Consitution and Bylaws and the first Meeting Minutes for meetings between 1897 and 1900. The Women's Institute Constitution was hand-penned by Jan

    In 2003, the Erland Lee (Museum) Home was designated by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, and a plaque was placed by the sidewalk leading into the side porch of the Museum. The plaque

    In 1967, the Lee family home (not yet a museum) was designated by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. Erland and Janet’s daughter and daughter-in-law, Marjorie Lee and Katherine Lee

    This plaque, mounted on a stone cairn, was placed at the roadside in front of the Erland Lee (Museum) Home in 1961, while it was still a private residence. It reads "In memory of Erland Lee and his w

    This is a scrapbook-style history of the Lee house, including a genealogy of the Lee family. The book includes a history of each generation to reside in the home and details the process of transition

    Erland Lee Museum Events Scrapbook - 1975-1990 - Various newspaper/magazine clippings relating to: - volunteers - Albin Rogala's addiction to purchasing lottery tickets - Battlefield House - Women's

Verna Rowena Conant, Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), 1956     This is a scrapbook created by Verna Rowena Conant, daughter of Christina Smith, who was President of the first branch of the Women's Institute in Stoney Creek. This volume features articles both pub

Verna Rowena Conant, Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON: Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario), 1956     This is a scrapbook created by Verna Rowena Conant, daughter of Christina Smith, who was President of the first branch of the Women's Institute in Stoney Creek. This volume features articles both pub

    This is a scrapbook that compiles all of the Centennial Celebrations that took place for the Centennial Anniversary of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario that took place in 1997. Each branch

    Compiled by Mary Kneebone, Curator, Erland Lee (Museum) Home

    This volume is a scrapbook to commemorate the Centenary of the Women's Institutes Movement and was sent to FWIO by the Glamorgan Federation of Women's Institutes (Wales, United Kingdom). The book con

    This is a collection of greeting cards sent to Stoney Creek on the occasion of the Centennial Celebrations of the Women's Institutes in Canada in 1997. Several of the cards feature hand-made elements

    This is a volume which contains items sent from UK WI branches in commemoration of the Centennial anniversary of the Women's Institutes in Canada, in 1997. It consists of photographs of UK branches c

    This is a travel scrapbook created by Mrs. Florence Nash (President of the Stoney Creek WI) to chronicle her 1965 trip to England and Scotland which included attending the UK WI AGM. Included in this