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Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, educator and reformer

The Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead in St. George, Ontario, photographed in 2014.
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Adelaide Hunter Hoodless (1857–1910), an educator and social reformer, promoted domestic economy as a school subject and helped establish household science institutes at Guelph, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and Toronto. She supported women’s organizations including the National Council of Women and the Federated Women’s Institutes, and helped establish the Victorian Order of Nurses.

Scope & context

Her reform work, not the first Women’s Institute itself (see CA-K205).

Sources behind this record

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Adelaide Hunter Hoodless (1857-1910) National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada

Historical importance; plaque text