Please note: This website chronicles the CNEs first 100 years and a bit ... but our history continues to evolve, and this website will continue to be expanded and embellished over time, as more decades & images are added! Keep checking back!
Please note: This website chronicles the CNEs first 100 years and a bit ... but our history continues to evolve, and this website will continue to be expanded and embellished over time, as more decades & images are added! Keep checking back!
These took place in the Manufacturers' Building, where clothing makers had their exhibits.
Most displays directed at women were next door in the Women's Building. The program there featured displays by Women's Institutes, lectures, musical programs, demonstrations of arts and crafts, cooking and so on.
In 1925, the list of lecture topics included:
"Does a Tea-Room Pay? Yes"
"The Call of the Hen and the Typewriter" but also
"Birth Control" &
"The Growth of Canadian Literature"
The 1925 Exhibition Programme also lists the cooking demonstrations for women. They include:
John's Mother is Coming to Supper. (Tuesday, September 1)
Mrs. Smith Serves Tea (Wednesday, September 2)
Let's Pack a Basket & Go to the Woods (Thursday, September 3)
The Women's Institute Served Supper to the Masons (Friday, September 4)
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