Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW
by
Linda M. Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the...