Into the North

              Extension office to serve the needs of the Northern Homemakers, and that the Women's Institute program be extended into the Eastern Arctic". Miss Florence P. Eadie, Field Worker, who continued the development of the Women's Institutes in the North "Yes, there is a place for the Women's Institutes, where women work together, make plans, go into action, acquire ability and desire to help themselves. Thus they grow and develop, and in so doing, these women gain respect for themselves and new confidence".

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Mrs.

James

Haggerty,

the

first

National

President

to visit

NCWI

Northwest Territories is a vast country, with great possibilities, with great problems and complexes that will not be solved easily. Let us not be critical of the Government, or those who are trying to build a better way of life for the native people, unless we can offer some better methods of handling a puzzling situation of age-old problems in a new and changing world". Mrs. J. Philip Matheson, Hon. President of FWIC and Chairman of NCWI Committee 'The establishment of the Women's Institutes in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon is an outstanding achievement of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada. I believe the work there will continue, will spread, and wiJl playa vital role in the lives of the women". Mrs. George Clarke, FWIC President "Let us, the members of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, in this year known as Human Rights Year, dedicate ourselves anew to promote our aims to raise the standards of Homemaking and Community Life for ALL the Citizens of Canada". Mrs. George Wilson, Editor of Northern Lights, who has shared in the

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"The

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promotion

of the

work

of NCWI

since

its inception

munities of the North is brighter and happier because of the Women's Institute. Let us continue to build bridges of understanding and friendship with our first Canadians, through the Women's Institute". The Hon. Arthur Laing, former Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, has said in regard to the deveJopment of the North

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life

in the

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well aware that we have a Jong way to go, and that our task won't be finished in your lifetime or mine. . . The short answer to the development problem is to build weJl . . . nation making takes wisdom and time". Many chapters of achievement, in the life of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, have been written down through the years. They are proud records of home and community betterment in the development of our country. The fore-going record 'Into the North", shows how obstacles are being overcome in meeting the challenge for the extension of the Women's Institute in the Canadian North another proud chapter begun in the annals of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada.

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