ton. At Halifax in 1947 she was elected National President of Fed- 
     
     erated Women’s Institutes of Canada, and presided at the F.W.I.C. 
     
     Convention in Saskatoon in 1949. 
     
    

    
     In 1948 the Provincial Board honored her with a Life Member- 
     
     ship. 
     
    

    
     For outstanding work as 2. Voluntary Nursing Sister in World 
     
     War 1, she was awarded the M.B.E. 
     
    

    
     This article taken from Institute News, March 1943 bears fur- 
     
     ther tribute to Mrs. MacMillan: (By E. G. Prescott). 
     
    

    
     The Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada is fortunate in 
     
     having Mrs. Allison E. MacMillan, of Fairview of Prince Edward 
     
     Island, as a representative on the National Survey of Health as set 
     
     up by the Department of Pensions and National Health. 
     
    

    
     During the last war, Mrs. MacMillan enlisted in Calgary, 
     
     Alberta, as a Nursing Sister and served in France with the Canadian 
     
     Army Medical Corps, and later went into Germany with the Army of 
     
     Occupation. In rec'ognition of her labors she was invested with the 
     
     Royal Red Cross at Buckingham Palace by King George V in 1919. 
     
    

    
     This war (11) once again finds Mrs. MacMillan working on the 
     
     Home Front organizing Nursing Classes in the rural communities of 
     
     P.E.I. In Queens County she has helped organize 20 school districts 
     
     with an approximate membership of 300, and has personally instruc- 
     
     ted four of these classes besides giving lectures in other districts. 
     
    

    
     Mrs. MacMillan is also Chief Air Observer for the aircraft 
     
     detection corps which c'overs a territory eight miles by six miles. 
     
     This calls for appointment of observers in the various districts which 
     
     Mrs. MacMillan says “are contributing much to the war effort.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the 10th Biennal Convention, Mrs. MacMillan was appoin- 
     
     ted Convenor of Child Welfare and Public Health, F.W.I.C. and under 
     
     her guidance the Dominion—wide campaign to improve sanitation in 
     
     the rural home, was initiated. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. MacMillan spent a week as an Observer at the United 
     
     Nations, representing F.W.I.C., and was the first woman to speak 
     
     at the Rotary Club in Charlottetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MRS. WALTER LEARD, BEDEQUE, P.E.I. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. Walter Leard, Bedeque, is a Women’s Institute member 
     
     who has faithfully and enthusiastically lived up to its Motto “For 
     
     Home and Country”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Having shown qualities of leadership in her local Institute, 
     
     Mrs. Leard was chosen to serve on the Provincial Executive of the 
     
     Prince Edward Island Women’s Institutes as the first convener of 
     
     the then newly—named Standing Committee, “Peace and International 
     
     Relations”. During her term of office, Mrs. Leard felt that something 
     
     should be done to promote understanding with foreign countries, and 
     
     she conceived the idea of a Portfolio of miniature samples of Prince 
     
     Edward Island Arts and Crafts. In the meantime, the Second World 
     
     War was declared, making it impossible to send the Portfolio over- 
     
     seas. Instead, it went to Canadian W.I. conventions, and later was on 
     
    
   
   
    
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