Canadian women recognized as “persons” in the legal interpretation 
     
     of the British North American Act, and therefore eligible for the 
     
     Canadian Senate. 
     
    

    
     The members of Brant County, Ontario, Women’s Institutes 
     
     erected a handsome Cairn, honoring the birthplace of their founder 
     
     in 1937, which was unveilled by Lady Tweedsmuir. Later the Federat- 
     
     ed Women’s Institutes of Canada voted to buy the house. Purchase 
     
     of the home has since been finalized and has been partly financed 
     
     by contributions of individual members and the sale of “hasti-notes" 
     
     of the Hoodless Homestead, showing the clapboard house of 115 
     
     years. The four living charter members of Stoney Creek Women’s 
     
     Institute were presented to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip dur- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing the Royal Tour of 1959. 
     
    

    
     Many things have been accomplished by the Federated Wo- 
     
     men’s Institutes of Canada through the years. Founded at the end 
     
     of one world war, they worked hard in the next including the dona— 
     
     tion of an ambulance to Britain and helping with the national regis- 
     
     tration of women. Although this large body of rural women is regis- 
     
     tered under different names, Newfoundland (Jubilee Guilds), Sask- 
     
     atchewan (Homemakers) — all join in working together for the 
     
     common purpose of “Home and Country”. 
     
    

    
     The first National Convention of Federated Women’s Insti- 
     
     tutes was held in Ottawa in 1957 with representatives from every 
     
     province, the attendance being based on two delegates for every 
     
     500 members. Three important decisions were made at this import- 
     
     ant convention: 1st. To establish a National Office (which had been 
     
     under consideration for some time). 2nd. To draw up a new Con- 
     
     stitution. 3rd. To continue to hold National Conventions in alternat- 
     
     ing provinces. Mrs. Keith Rand, Nova Scotia, was elected National 
     
     President at this convention. 
     
    

    
     The National Office is situated in Ottawa, and became a reality 
     
     the following year with Mrs. H. G. Taylor as Secretary; its support 
     
     was derived from the Foundation Fund (the membership made con- 
     
     tributions to this fund for a number of years). Since its opening 
     
     the Federal Department of Agriculture has approved an annual grant 
     
     of $10,000.00 to the Federal Women’s Institutes of Canada. Portraits 
     
     of Mrs. Hoodless and of Judge Emily Murphy, as well as a Beaver 
     
     pelt from the Canadian Citizeship Council hang in this office, the 
     
     window of which frames Confederation Square. 
     
    

    
     In 1959, 101 years after the birth of Adelaide Hoodless, the 
     
     Postmaster General of Canada issued a Commemorative 5c stamp 
     
     in honor of the Associated Country Women of the World, and in 
     
     response to a request by F.W.I.C. Thirty-two million more of these 
     
     stamps were produced than is customary for a special issue stamp. 
     
    
   
   
    
     F.W.I.C. was cited by CAAE as having given “a lead to 
     
     other Canadian women by sharing with women in other lands 
     
     through their generous support of the UNESCO gift coupon plan.” 
     
     This was a United Nations project sponsored by the A.C.W.W. to 
     
     provide training centres in Ceylon. Twenty-five of these were 
     
    
   
   
    
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