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Download or Read eBook Adelaide Hoodless PDF written by Cheryl MacDonald and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Adelaide Hoodless
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9781554880669
ISBN-13 : 1554880661
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Book Synopsis Adelaide Hoodless by : Cheryl MacDonald

Book excerpt: Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She helped turn the Canadian YWCA into a national organization. She founded the Women’s Institute, assisted in the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses and represented Canada on numerous International Councils of Women, as well as establishing the first school for the training of domestic science teachers in Canada and putting together the first Canadian domestic science textbook, popularly known as the Little Red Book.


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