stitute. This year, 1959, commemorates the 100th year of the birth 
     
     of Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, the founder of the Women’s Institute. 
     
    

    
     “Helen Fitzgerald, Toronto, designed the stamp and it is 
     
     unique in the fact that it is the first Canadian stamp designed by 
     
     a woman. The design symbolizes growth, as cultivated by Country 
     
     Women of individual country organizations, into the world associa- 
     
     tion, as represented by the globe. 
     
    

    
     “This stamp has come into being through the efforts of the 
     
     Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada, following a resolution 
     
     from the Manitoba Women’s Institutes, requesting a stamp be 
     
     issued to honour Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, and the founding of the 
     
     first Women’s Institute in 1897.” 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Commemorative Stamp Committee of the F.W.I.C. ar- 
     
     ranged for a special engraved “First Day Cover”. This cover bearing 
     
     the new stamp and the dye, “For Home and Country”. A. great many 
     
    
   
   
    
     members have one of these as souvenirs, which now have become 
     
     collectors’ items. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Mrs. J. F. van Beekhoff van Selms of the Netherlands 
     
     was elected President at the Edinburgh Conference (1959). 
     
     At this Conference Mrs. Graham Spry, wife of the Agent 
     
     General of Saskatchewan for Great Britain and Europe, and 
     
     who represented FWIC at ACWW for five years, was elected Chair- 
     
     man of the Executive Committee for the world organization, and at 
     
    
   
   
    
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