I have put together a series of slide presentations about the Women’s Institutes as part of my final project for ADED 380 Teaching Technologies,. Their present format is as yet incomplete, however, they are for the most part finished in terms of being a demonstrative part of the project. With the help of Erland Lee, Adelaide Hoodless founded the Women’s Institutes as on off-shoot of the Framer’s Institute in 1897. Here we examine her live and her achievements in and out of the W.I. Did you know that Adelaide Hoodless was responsible for the bringing Domestic Science or Home Economics into schools? She wrote the book in 1898!

1. Adelaide Hoodless
Founder
Alison Parvin
ADED 380, Summer 2013

2.  Born on February 27, 1857,
the youngest of twelve
children in the Hunter
family.
 She was a first generation
Canadian with an Irish
heritage, her grandparents
and fourteen children
having emigrated to
Canada in 1836.
 She became a wife at 24
and a mother at 25, and
died suddenly at the age
of 52.

3. Adelaide founded or
helped to found:
 Young Women’s Christian
Association;
 Victorian Order of Nurses;
 The National Council of
Women;
 Macdonald Institute;
 School of Household Science
( Macdonald College, Ste.
Anne de Bellevue with
McGill University);
 Women’s Institute ’ ( Howes
p3).

4.  She also prepared a text
book published in 1898
entitled ‘Public School
Domestic Science,’ which
was authorised by the
Education Department of
Ontario.
 Seen as ahead of its
time, it included chapters
that covered:
 ‘Relation of Food to the Body,’
 ‘Nutrition’
 ‘Food and Economy’
 ‘Cooking’
 ‘Recipes’
 ‘Menus’ and
 ‘Infants’ Diets’ (Howes, 1965, p11).

5. ‘A WOMAN OF VISION’ BY RUTH HOWES, 1965
OUTLINES THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ADELAIDE HOODLESS
Right click on pamplet and
select ‘Open’ to read.

6. ADELAIDE HUNTER
HOODLESS HOMESTEAD
MACDONALD INSTITUTE (MINS) |
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
Pictures are hyperlinked: Click on them to go to each website.

7. TASK: Discuss what your experience of
Domestic Science or Home Economics.
What was it like? I recollect making
‘Cheese and Potato’ pie (mashed potatoes
and grated cheese baked together) and
proudly taking it home for ‘tea’!
NEXT: How the movement grew.

8.  Howes, Ruth, Adelaide Hoodless: Woman
With A Vision, 1965