Grey West WIF37
The Grey West District Women’s Institute operated from 1949 to 1997 serving branches in Keppel, Sarawak, and Derby Townships, as well as the city of Owen Sound, Ontario. The purpose of a District W.I. is to promote and supplement the efforts of branches and to increase their productivity through District meetings & cooperative educational programmes. Increasing membership and the emergence of new branches in the 1940s was cause for district re-organization in Grey County in 1949. From this reorganization, the Grey West District Women’s Institute was formed, serving branches previously covered by North Grey and Centre Grey Districts. Branches in the Grey West District were: Clavering, Desboro, Golden Valley, Grimston, Kemble, Keward, Kilsyth, Owen Sound, Oxenden & Lake Charles Grandview, Pine Corners, Rockford, Rockview, Salem, Sarawak, Shallow Lake,
Bluewater, Springmount, Sunny Valley, Marmion, Zion and Wolseley, and North Derby.
The District encouraged members to take part in a W.I. broadcast radio show in 1950-51 on CFOS and again 1963. Members were also encouraged to play their part in maintaining a sponsored hospital ward, staffing the canteen at the MacKinnon Phillips Hospital, supporting the Grey-Owen Sound Museum, and participating in 4H Clubs, among other initiatives.
Declining membership in the 1990s caused many branches to disband making way for district restructuring in 1997, with the five Districts in Grey County restructuring into Grey North and Grey South Districts.
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