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Ad for the Carlin-Hulfish Company, established 1844. The company deals in wholesale hardware goods.

Ad in the 1907 Alexandria City Directory for First National Bank

""This painting by George Reid depicts women working in a factory. Of the almost 300,000 factory workers engaged in war production in 1917, approximately one in eight were women.""

"Bronze sculpture by Florence Wyle depicting a female munitions worker. One of Canada's premier sculptors, Wyle was one of four female artists commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to document activity on the home front during the war."

This 19th-century farmhouse is the birthplace of the Women's Institutes (WI), an organization that played a vital role in thousands of small communities. Inspired by domestic science reformer Adelaide Hoodless, and supported by her husband Erland,…

1919 - Dorothy Stevens

"A booklet and advertisement by the T. Eaton Company on goods, services, and buildings available to soldier settlers. The Soldier Settlement Board granted veterans up to 320 acres of land, loans for farm equipment, and live stock. This advertisement…