THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTESAdelaide Hoodless

Founder

Alison ParvinADED 380, Summer 2013

Adelaide Hoodless

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.

Adelaide Hoodless

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).

Adelaide Hoodless

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).

Lesson 3’s reading:‘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.

Further reading:

ADELAIDE HUNTER HOODLESS HOMESTEAD

MACDONALD INSTITUTE (MINS) | UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Pictures are hyperlinked: Click on them to go to each website.

END OF LESSON 3TASK: 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.

References:

Howes, Ruth, Adelaide Hoodless: Woman With A Vision, 1965