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The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario , Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897.
The group is internationally known as the Associated Country Women of the World. Janet Lee is attributed with writing the original Women's Institute constitution on her dining room table, on February 25, 1897. [3] A primary school in Stoney Creek, Ontario was named for Janet Lee in 1987.
The Fox Goes Free is a grade II listed pub in Charlton, West Sussex, England.It is a 17th-century flint building. [1]On 9 November 1915 the inn was the venue for the first Women's Institute (WI) meeting held in England, after the first meeting in Wales on 16 September of that year.
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Before the war, many women's rights petitions were circulated and there was tentative work in forming suffrage organizations. After the Civil War, the first women's suffrage conference held in Wisconsin took place in October 1867 in Janesville. That year, a women's suffrage amendment passed in the state legislature and waited to pass the second ...
The governor of Wisconsin is given command of the state's military forces and empowered to pardon convicts. The Wisconsin Constitution also allows the governor to veto bills passed by the state legislature. The constitution was amended in 1930 to grant the governor a uniquely powerful line-item veto on appropriation bills. The power was ...
The Erland Lee (Museum) Home is a National Historic Site of Canada located on the ridge of the Niagara Escarpment in Stoney Creek, Hamilton, Ontario.Originally a farmhouse belonging to Erland and Janet Lee, the museum is recognized as the birthplace of the first Women's Institute, an international organization formed in 1897 to promote the education of isolated rural women.
In 1884, a women's suffrage bill, allowing women to vote for school-related issues is passed. In 1886, voters approve the school-related suffrage bill in a referendum . The first year women vote, 1887, there are challenges to the law that go on until Wisconsin women are allowed to vote again for school issues in 1902 using separate ballots.