Adelaide Hoodless
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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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Cheryl MacDonald has been writing about Canadian history since 1976. In addition to nearly forty history books and a weekly history column, she has written historical articles for such magazines as The Beaver and Maclean's. She lives near Nanticoke, Ontario.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. A Young Victorian Matron
- 2. Early Work with the YWCA
- 3. Council of Women
- 4. Cooking classes at the YWCA
- 5. A School of Domestic Science
- 6. A Controversial Crusade
- 7. The Campaign Heats Up
- 8. Two New Organizations
- 9. The Little Red Book
- 10. Conquest by Charm
- 11. A Trip to England
- 12. A School for Domestic Science Teachers
- 13. An Ambitious Project
- 14. More Victories
- 15. Trials and Tantrums
- 16. Macdonald Institute
- 17. Trade School Advisor
- 18. "The Gratitude of the Citizens"
- Epilogue
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration and Photograph Credits
- Index
