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Adelaide Sophia Hoodless was a Canadian educational reformer and author. She was later recognized for her work in advancing the education of rural women.
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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- Adelaide Sophia Hoodless was born Adelaide Sophia Hunter on February 27, 1858, on a farm near St George in Brant County, Canada.
- Adelaide was the twelfth child of David Hunter and Jane Hamilton.
- Adelaide lived with her sister while attending Ladies College in Brantford, Ontario. While there she met her future husband, John Hoodless.
- John Hoodless was the son of Joseph Hoodless, a prominent Hamilton furniture manufacturer.
- Adelaide married businessman John Hoodless in 1881, at the age of 24, and moved to Hamilton. Adelaide exchanged her life as a hard-working farmhouse girl to a Victorian socialite.
- Adelaide and John had four children, Edna, Muriel, Bernard, and John Harold.
EARLY CAREER
- On August 10, 1889, Adelaide lost her infant son John at 14 months old, which inspired her to campaign for better education for women to help lower deaths of infants.
- In September 1890, Adelaide became the second president of the Hamilton Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA).
- Adelaide attended the World’s Congress of Representative Women in May 1893 in conjunction with the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1893, she helped form the National Council of Women of Canada. In October, they had their first meeting with Adelaide, getting voted treasurer, while Lady Aberdeen became the president.
- In November 1893, Adelaide established Hamilton’s Local Council of Women and was their corresponding secretary.
- In December 1893, she organized the founding meeting in Toronto for the national YWCA. In January 1895, she became president.
- When the US began expanding the scientific field of nutrition and sanitation, Adelaide introduced this science into training, calling it domestic science, household science, and eventually home economics.
- The Hamilton Board of Education agreed to fund the new subject as an experiment, but it only lasted a year. Officials felt the province should bear the cost and felt the trial had failed to include a sufficient number of working-class students.
- George William Ross, Ontario’s Minister of Education from 1833-1899 and later premier, was Adelaideβs ally, who admired her persistence and determination.
- In 1894, Adelaide successfully piqued George William Ross’s interest in special instruction for girls and encouraged him to tour new facilities in the US.
- In 1896, Adelaide spoke at Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph.
LATER LIFE AND LEGACY
- Adelaide was invited to Stoney Creek to address a group of ladies, presenting the notion of self-education, resulting in the founding of the Women’s Institute of Saltfleet Township. Bringing women’s institutes to operation in many parts of the world gave Adelaide lasting fame.
- In 1897, the public schools in Ontario became the first in Canada to offer domestic science courses. Adelaide also helped found the first womenβs institute and was named honorary president.
- Adelaide excelled in public speaking, appealing to the largely male audience in promoting adding home economics to the education system.
- Adelaide wrote the first domestic science textbook geared to help future teachers in 1898.
- In 1900, she created the Ontario Normal School of Domestic Science and Art at Hamilton. The most successful student to graduate from the school was Katherine Anderson Fisher, who became the director of New Yorkβs Good Housekeeping Institute from 1924 to 1953.
- In 1901, Alice Amelia Chown and Alice Ravenhill began commenting on the fact that Adelaide herself lacked the educational qualifications and training needed for a speaker on the topic. Adelaide resigned from the National Council of Women in 1901 but stayed on as executive after becoming provincial vice-president for Ontario the following year.
- In 1901, Adelaide went to Montreal to meet Sir William C MacDonald, telling him her ideas. They suited his educational advisor James Wilson Robertsons idea to create a teacher training school, aiming to improve rural education in the eastern area of Canada.
- In 1902, the Macdonald Institute of Home Economics construction had begun. The facility would provide teacher training in nature studies, industrial arts, home economics, and even a shorter course for farmers’ daughters in home economics.
- In 1903, Adelaide presided over the formation of MacDonald Institute of Home Economics in Guelph.
- In 1904, William H Muldrew; the dean of the Macdonald Institute, gave Adelaide a short course to teach. William Muldrew cut the course in August. After his death in October, the new dean George Christie Creelman restored the course, which she presented as an annual lecture until the end of her life.
- In 1910 Adelaide dies suddenly on 25 February in Toronto during a speech, one day before her 53rd birthday.
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