(now deceased); Vice President, Mrs. J. A. Cutcliffe; Secretary- 
     
     Treasurer, Miss Stella Weeks (now Mrs. Frank Nicholson). 
     
    

    
     Twenty-two women met in Fredericton Hall to organize a 
     
     Women’s Institute promoting projects and aims to improve Home, 
     
     School, Community and Country living. Their first funds or means 
     
     of raising money came from holding a “Birthday Party” as they 
     
     called it and each member inviting five friends, each giving a cent 
     
     for each year of her age. This gave them their financial start and 
     
     at the 2nd meeting it was moved and seconded to start improving 
     
     the school, by buying new window blinds and repairing windows. 
     
     They also had a program with musical entertainment, a paper read 
     
     “ toutine in the Household” and one on “a living room that is 
     
     livable” and a paper read by a member “What the Institute means 
     
     to a Community”. 
     
    

    
     During that first year they donated and collected jams and 
     
     perserves for the P.E.I. Hospital. Put together and quilted 2 quilts 
     
     for the Orphanage. Before the 2nd year was over the school had put 
     
     on a new appearance, with the exterior painted, new flag and a 
     
     new hard wood floor, a globe, a map, and table for the teacher’s 
     
     desk. Donated money for school Fair Prizes. Also donated $70 in aid 
     
     of orphanage, subscribed for several magazines, such as the 
     
     Delinator, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s and Homecraft and they 
     
     were distributed among members so each had the use of them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Treated the children school closing with ice-cream and bought 
     
     the teacher gift. They raised their money by ice cream festival, 
     
     Box Socials, Auction Sales, autograph quilt, quilting parties, selling 
     
     lunches. 
     
    

    
     Throughout the past 40 years, this Institute has kept up 
     
     these aims, supplying school and Hall needs whenever possible 
     
     and completed projects for the welfare of the children, for their 
     
     Health, Education and Culture. Fredericton W.I. improved the Hall 
     
     by interior decorating walls and stage and an organ. Have always 
     
     donated generously or collected for all worthwhile organizations, 
     
     such as Orphanages, Red Cross, P.E.I. Hospital, Provincial San, 
     
     T.B. League, Temperance Alliance, Salvation Army, Y.M.C.A., 
     
     Ambulance Fund, F.W.I.C. Mobile Kitchen Fund, Spitfire Fund, 
     
     Save the Children Fund, Chinese Fund, Russian Relief Fund, Princess 
     
     Alice Foundation Fund, Canadian Cancer Society, Cancer Fund, 
     
     U.E.F.B. Appeal, The Jubilee Endowment Fund (now the Home 
     
     Economic Scholarship Fund), .E.I. Chapter Multiple Sclerosis So- 
     
     ciety, Canadian National Institute of the Blind, Retarded Children’s 
     
     Fund, gifts and toys for Polio Victims, and many other charitable 
     
     causes 
     
    

    
     When the Sanatorium was needed Fredericton W.I. canvassed 
     
     and worked donating money and making sheets, pillow cases and 
     
     bedjackets etc. In 1930 the first clinic was held in school for the 
     
     innoculation against Diphtheria, the Institute paying for the Toxin 
     
     used. Since then many Health Clinics have been held and the WI. 
     
     paying fees or for medicines prescribed for. 
     
    
   
   
    
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