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“THE WILLOWS” AD ELA: HUNTER HOODLESS 1857 - 1910 Adelaide lems an fomenrend ork together to improve their standa rapidly thre? Gnd citizenship. This movement spread Mrs. Hood Ughout Ontario and later to other provinces. introduces ss, q natural leader and forceful speaker, schools a the teaching of domestic science into Ontario Anos nd obtained funds for the building of Mac- nald Institute ot Guelph. The Homestead was purchased by the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada in 1959, It has been re- stored and furnished in the period when Adelaide Hunter Hoodless lived there. This was a project of all Institutes in Canada. An apartment was added to the building in 1979, The National Historic Sites and Monuments Board erected a plaque in June of 1962 proclaiming Adelaide Hunter Hoodless an eminent Canadian. 7 THE CAIRN INSCRIPTION A cairn bearing this inscription stands at the junction of Highways 5 and 24, a half mile from the Homestead. commemorate the birthplace of Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, 1857-1910, who founded the Women's Insti- tute, February 19, 1897, erected by the Women’s Insti- tutes of Brant County, unveiled her Her Excellency Lady Tweedsmuir, October 7, 1937.” When the Scottish Rural Institute members made a tour of rural Canada in 1939, a flag pole and flag were dedicated in the Adelaide Hoodless Memorial Pork. The South Dumfries Township Council erected a plaque in 1958: "Birthplace of Adelaide Hoodless, Founder of Women’s Institutes”. This tribute to Mrs. Hoodless was placed on a plaque at the Homestead by the Ontario Archaeological and His- toric Sites board in 1959.