Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead National Historic Site of
Canada Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead Homestead d'Adelaide
Hunter Hoodless Links and documents 1830/01/01 to 1839/01/01
Listed on the Canadian Register: Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead
is an early nineteenth-century one-and-half storey wood-frame
farmhouse located in a pastoral setting in the rural community
of St. George Ontario. The designation refers to the house on
its lot. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead was designated a
National Historic Site in 1995 for its concrete linkages with
the contributions of Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, a champion of
maternal feminism, who was instrumental in the founding of the
Women’s Institute, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the
National Council of Women, the Victorian Order of Nurses, and
three faculties of Household Science, and because the rural
situation and lack of amenities found in Hoodless’ childhood
home speak eloquently to the hard