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Covered bridge in the Eastern Townships
Circa 1900

Credits:
Eastern Townships Resource Centre

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Sleigh wagon
Date unknown

Credits:
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, 79/12/33

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Haywagon with crew, near Sawyerville
Circa 1900

Credits:
Lennoxville-Ascot Historical and Museum Society, P 964 BUS 1 of 3.LAHMS.2-05

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Sugar house in Glen Sutton with a team of horses and a sap-gathering tank
Date unknown
Glen Sutton, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P020/77/7/21a

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Haying the field
Date unknown

Credits:
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, 77/3/32a

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Ice cutting
1890

Credits:
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P998

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Horse Carriage
Date unknown

Credits:
Private Collection of Josephine LeBaron

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It was in the town of Dunham in the Eastern Townships, in the year of 1911, that the first Women's Institute was created in the province of Quebec. It was mainly through the motivation and dedication of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Beach (1866-1942) of Dunham that the first provincial branch was created. The Women's Institutes (at the time named Homemakers' Clubs) rapidly spread out to the various counties in the Eastern Townships and throughout Quebec. In 1915, when representatives from the local branches were invited to Macdonald College for the first provincial convention, there were 33 groups existing in the province. A provincial organization, the Quebec Women's Institutes, came into being in 1919. That same year, delegates from each province were invited to Winnipeg to form the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada.

Members of the local branches met on a monthly basis while county meetings and provincial conventions were held once or twice a year. The dissemination of information on the Women's Institute by the national federation was carried out by publications such as Canadian Home and Country, a magazine published since 1939, or by the Federated News, a journal issued quarterly by the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada and first published in the 1940s.

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Women's Institute memorabilia bowl
20th Century

Credits:
Private Collection of Gwen Parker
Photograph by Chloe Southam

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Members from various branches of the Women's Institutes located in Quebec

Credits:
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P008/008, Brompton Road Women's Institute fonds

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First Women's Institute Broadcast
Circa 1947

Credits:
Sherbrooke Daily Record

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Canadian Home and Country. The Journal of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada
March 1939

Credits:
Canadian Home and Country. The Journal of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, vol. 1, no. 1, March 1939, p. 1
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P027, Sherbrooke County Women’s Institutes fonds

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Canadian Home and Country. The Journal of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada
March 1939

Credits:
Canadian Home and Country. The Journal of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, vol. 1, no.1, March 1939, p. 3
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P027, Sherbrooke County Women’s Institutes fonds

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Canadian Home and Country. The Journal of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada
March 1939

Credits:
Canadian Home and Country. The Journal of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, vol. 1, no. 1, March 1939, p. 5
Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P027, Sherbrooke County Women’s Institutes fonds