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A FEW PRACTICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
OF THE U.F. W. A.

The United Farm Women of Alberta were organized in
1915, in MacDougal! Church, Edmonton.

Immediately committees on health, education and Young
People’s work were formed, with legislation being added a
short time later, and the U.F.W.A. began a systematic study
of all these subjects.

In 1917 a resolution passed at the Annual Convention
asked for municipal hospitals, and since then the group have
been actively engaged in the advancement of all health mat-
ters, hospitals, clinics, the nursing branch, health units, the
Sterilization Act which made possible the work of the Eugenics
Board, the extermination of venereal disease, mental hygiene
and health insurance.

As the years passed the interests of this women’s group
broadened until there were included in their programme,
horticulture, handicrafts, home economics, co-operation, peace
and international relationship.

Many reforms have resulted from the investigations and
research of this group. The Dower Act, Mothers’ Allowance,
Equal Parental Rights, Needy Litigants Act, and revisions in
the School Curricula, are a very few of the Acts in the Pro-
vincial field, while reforms in Federal legislation in regard to
Domicile, Divorce, and Personal Naturalization, along with
many others are to the credit of the U.F.W.A.

The Farm Young People’s Week and the Fafm Women’s
Week are two courses sponsored by the group.

The vision for the future and for which the women toil is
a happier world for mankind.