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Adelaide Hunter Hoodless

A portrait photograph of a women turned slightly to her right with her right hand touching her face. Her hair is up.

1000 Towns of Canada,

Adelaide Hoodless (1858-1910) was an educational reformer and founder of the Women’s Institute. Following the tragic 1889 death of her youngest child, she devoted her life to improving education for women, particularly that of young mothers .