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able schoolhouse or hall for a meeting that was 

 anything but attractive. Had it not been for 

 their keen sense of the handicap from which 

 agriculture suffered, and their conviction that 

 something must be done, one wonders if they 

 could have persisted so long. Enthusiasm for 

 the cause maintained them, but enthusiasm 

 under adverse conditions sooner or later wanes, 

 and in the active participation of farm women 

 leaders saw hope of renewing and strengthening 

 the movement. Thus it came about that steps 

 were taken to give woman her rightful place in 

 the farmers' crusade. 



In the early summer of 1918, Mrs. Violet 

 McNaughton, a pioneer leader in the women's 

 organizations of Saskatchewan, was to represent 

 her Province at a convention of the National 

 Council of Women in Brantford. Mr. Morrison 

 made use of the occasion of her passing through 

 Toronto to gather together such farm women as 

 he knew to be interested in the matter of organiz- 

 ation, to confer with her. On the seventeenth 

 of June, sixteen women and three men met in the 

 parlor of the Elm Street Y.W.C.A. and listened 

 to Mrs. McNaughton as she outlined the work 

 done by the Women Grain Growers' Organiza- 

 tions of the West and pointed out those principles 

 which they from experience had found to make 

 for success. 



