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1930-1965 (Creation)
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0,07 m of textual records.
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The Way's Mills Women's Institute was founded in 1914 as a Homemakers' Club. As the other Homemakers' Club changed to Women's Institutes in the early 1920s, so too did the Way's Mills club. Like the other Women's Institutes, whose motto is 'For Home and Country', this one was concerned with family in rural regions. The Way's Mills Women's Institute was a member of the Stanstead County Women's Institutes, the Quebec Women's Institutes, and the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada. Delegates attended the annual meetings of these organizations. Locally, an elected board of directors worked with various committees (Agriculture, Citizenship, Education, Home Economics, Publicity, Welfare and Health, etc.) to organize monthly meetings and activities. The latter included lectures, school fairs, and fund raising events (cookbooks, craft sales, paper drives, etc.) in aid of the Children's Memorial Hospital, the Save the Children Fund, and local schools and hospitals. After 50 years of activity, the Way's Mills Women's Institute was disbanded in 1968.
Custodial history
The records were kept for many years at Macdonald College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. They were transferred to the Eastern Townships Research Centre at Bishop's University in 1996 by the Stanstead County Women's Institutes. A second accession was transferred to the archives in 1998.
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The fonds contains source material on the organization and the activities of the Way's Mills Women's Institute from 1930 to 1965. It is comprised of the following series: History (1954-[1965?], Minutes (1955-1965), Treasurer's Book (1959-1965), Programmes (1930-1932), Anniversaries (1954-1964), and Press Clippings (1945).
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Researchers may also consult the Belvidere Women's Institute fonds (P003), the Denison Mills Women's Institute fonds (P007), the Brompton Road Women's Institute fonds (P008), the Lennoxville Women's Institute fonds (P025), the Sherbrooke County Women's Institutes fonds (P027), the Ascot Women's Institute fonds (P100), the Tomifobia Women's Institute fonds (P104), the Minton Women's Institute fonds (P106), and the Beebe Women's Institute fonds (P107).
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The documents are in English.
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28 janvier, 2016