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R. Mulock, as president, shie having been one of the leading 

 spirits in the movement. 



Collectors were appointed to raise funds and the city was 

 divided into districts for this purpose. In order to receive a 

 Government grant an Act of Incorporation was applied for 

 early in 1894: under the name of the Ohristian Women's 

 Union of "Winnipeg. The Act was passed by the Legislature 

 in April of that year and a grant of $500 was given, now 

 $250. The annual fees are $3.00 ; life membership, $50. 

 The ladies applying for this Act were Mrs. Mary E. J. 

 Aikens, honorary president ; Mrs. Catherine Howe, presi- 

 dent ;Mrs. Eleanor Whitla, vice-president; Miss Mary Jaz- 

 drowski, treasurer ; Mrs. Annie Monk, corresponding secret 

 tary; Mrs. Jemima Irwin, recording secretary; Mrs. Marion 

 Bryce, 1st directress; Mrs. Matilda Lynch, 2nd directress. 



The first work undertaken was a home for young women 

 earning their living in the city and absent from their O'wn 

 homes. The old Bannatyne residence on the river bank, with 

 its grounds extending from Bannatyne to McDermot St., was 

 rented for the purpose of the home, which was opened in the 

 spring of 1883. 



This institution was afterwards moved to a smaller house 

 on Hargrave Street, but it was not taken advantage of by 

 those for whom it was intended — it rather seemed to attract 

 the idle and incompetent, so in a short time it was thought 

 advisable to have it closed. In the meantime, with the glad 

 approval of the leading physicians of the city, the society 

 had opened a Maternity Hospital in the Bannatyne building. 



The hospital was not designed only to benefit the class 

 usually styled unfortunate, but also poor married women who 

 were destitute of comforts in theii* own miserable shanty 

 homes at that time so common. There were also private 

 wards for ladies coming from the country and from distant 

 towns for the advantage of good medical skill and nursing. 

 The Bannatyne building having been sold, the maternity 



