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Liwosay Womew's meriturTe . \fl&b~\°\'\3 Vl--[ T 0V )* y Kifi + _ craxh its | td J 3\' fi& . )6 +43 3 $ 0' .: i' 24 s '"é:& w h + «* W ®i¥A 0 * & * »/ P 6 C Anhaosl 11 _' UA kX iClatnd / © wliae h P ts . . 3P Seluale We t ea c n o. & (' "a. oc s mt '}g * %;«' % o. To T TT 2 ' CH Py q ' K0 cssfi t e o e s 1 * Lindsay Women's Institute bus trip, June 18, 1947. The women were waiting at Ferndale to catch a bus to Guelph to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Women's Institute. (I to r) Bernadette Tigert, Lenore McLay, Lillian Clarke, Annie McLay, Annie Smith, Donelda Shearer, Kate D.L. McLay, Dorothy Hayes, Eliza Hayes. L 2 20. The best-docu'mentcd and most enduring Women's An prgamizaiion needs money, A qu1lt1ng nee was Institute in the township was organized in Lower Lindsay qunckl'y atgsn!26d. i Ip later. years, meetings were on a snowy day in February 1926. The idea of creating a organized around similar knitting and quilting bees, jocal MHm'n toned first % usually in the fall. The pattern of this first quilt was called gathering a fow weeks';;reviousle tr:ec[;e;onni lPl;Sa 4 f *"*The Ladies Puzzle." Tickets were sold to raise money, in Hall. The women agreed therey was a neer()i fogle:r? ie ies 12 onl Ihs quilt was "Pn i9 Ne Ause!! organization to look after various community projects. ?;;(])ey:{ffil;e;sg Izgy.ng bt(;'.(ssf\zill hte}i;i g?airjlar;h;')? Everybody went home and the idea seemed to have died. on -1 ¢ iert 1M C me as But Martha Shearer, Archie's wife, decided to look into C on on onl t L e onl ts the W.1. She made i'nquiries at Li(;n's Head, the closest doorkeeper was Charles Hayes. Another fundraising branch. A day, February 9, 1926, and a place ;he home of activity over the years was the operation of a refreshment Mrs. Maggic 'Smith was setr for ar? or ,anizational booth at township school picnics. With money in the mc;:;ing ' _ -- Or€ treasury, the W.1. was ready to start its community work. The (.jay' was very stormy but 15 Lion's Head W .I The Stokes Bay cemetery, established before the turn memeerseamereihe meetigg by horse and slsigh Th-cy" of the century at the initialivve of the Lindsay Township were met by several women from S.8. No landSS.No 5 council, was the final resting place of many Lindsay dfSstricts. The branch was organizéd.and. given tl'le'narr}e pioneers. By the mid--1920s, it had fallen into neglect. At Lindsay Women's Institute. The charter members of the the May 1926 '?"ee""g f was moved by Rache! McLay, Lindsay W.L. were: President Frances Rouse, vice-- seconded by Eliza Hayes, that a bee would be organized president Maggie Smith, second vice--president Rachel C . .Lutneg, 1926, tot [clean :'p IS;EZ?:)?:SrYfi:\g(ZZ:e:Z?S McLay, treasurer Millie Ackerman, district director Kate XOte 31 O DuSEEmEUL NO EPA ons * McLay, Mary Ackerman, Maria Blacklock, Eliza Hayes bee" became an anpual event where township men cut Lottie West, Frances Bennet, Christie Nixon, Margaret the grass anqd 1;;:plalrec}i] fe;x;es Dand .t%mbsl;opel:. Th'e Rouse and Annie Smith. Younger women joined the W.1. l t en C i/ybHs, »ay--Dtinkman s as they came of age or moved to the Area Corners W.1. undertook to help maintain the cemetery at ~ McVicar where many northern Lindsay pioneers were buried. «'m«¥en ERLomM PRoyo PEOPLE LinpsAY TwP . HisToRY LINDSAY W.IL TWEEDMUIR -- npron 2094