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Lo] o, 201 Milton Canadian Champion | Thursday, December 5 insidehalton.com = I COMMUNITY LOCAL WOMEN'S SUCCESS STORIES CELEBRATED £100 YEARS 100 ~ WOMEN PROJECT NOW ON DISPLAY AT ARTS CENTRE HERB GARBUTT hgarbutt@metroland.com When Gail Brown heard about the plans.to honour 100 influential women in Milton, she immediately offered to contribute to the ceremony. "I could pipe them in," said Brown, a three-time world pipe band champion. "They need to make a grand entrance." On a night to honour fe- male leaders and trailblaz- ers, it was fitting to have Brown. leading the way. The Milton piper was the first woman to play in a Grade 1 band at the world championships. She was followed in by a group of who had or, in many cases, continue to make signifi- cant contributions to the town in a variety of ways. "To see the women and all the ways they've helped tHe town, through - busi- Financial solutions are ness, the arts, teaching and organizing groups, it makes me really proud," Brown said. Sparked by the CFUW"s 100th anniversary, the 100 Years 100 Women project, on display at the Holcim Gallery at the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton, was a joint effort between the Ca- nadian Federation of Uni- versity Women Milton & District and the Fine Arts Society of Milton (FASM). Emma Lou Bradley said, "Never in my wildest dreams," did she expect to be included in such a group. Bradley inter- viewed Amy Merry for Mrs. Merry"s Memories, a history of rural life in Drumquin, Hornby and Milton from the 1850s to 1950s. ~ She has a unique per- spective on the women who around the corner. 3.30 Bronte Suite 217 Brett J Strano, CFP®, FMA, CIWM Financial Advisor Street South Milton, ON L9T 7X1 905-864-9969 : Herb Garbutt/Torstar Gail Brown stands next to the 'arts' pillar, displaying female trailblazers at the unveiling of 100 Years 100 Women. were honoured. "I'm 94, I knew a lot of them," she said with a smile. "It's wonderful. It's very important (to recog- nize the contributions of women) in this day and age when women are coming out of their shell and step- ping forward." 'Donna Stover and Jo- anne Tufford were there representing their grand- mother Helen Dewar, a re- porter for the Canadian Champion who helped found Milton's branch of the Red Cross. "Even as kids, we could never keep up to Grand- ma," Stover said. "She was a smart lady. She wrote po- ems, she had a beautiful garden and she created her own shorthand (as a ste- nographer and court re- porter)." Ross Clarke said it was Carlee MacQueen ~ Financial Advisor 310 Main Street East Suite 103 Milton, ON LOT 1P4 905-864-6959, Gail Brown, Joyce Hayward, Martha Hoey, June Andrews, Betty Kennedy, Joyce Beaton, Susan Delacourt, Nancy | Fraser, Heather.Gibson, Ethel Gardiner, Patti Trofimenkoff, Sherri Saevil, Sherry Shannon-Vanstone, Karen Horst, 100 YEARS 100 WOMEN ' Trailblazers, Pre-1919 (8): Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Adelaide Hunter Hoodless. Rural (17): Dr. Ethel Chapman, Ella Patterson, Maisie Lasby, Jean Loos, Barbara Ford, Evelyn Gillies, Emma Lou Bradley, Phyllis MacMaster, Laura Hughes, Carol Chudleigh, June Barnes, Jane Croft, Betty Brownridge, "| Peggy Knapp, Liz Lambrick, Sandy Grant, Meaghan Richardson. . The Arts (22): Elizabeth Bastedo, Florence Blatk, Gwen Clarke, Elizabeth Wilkes Hoey, Judy Hunter, Beryl Fox, Cuttle, Jacqueline Smith, Ursula McDermid, Marion Detlor, Cassandra Warmer, Rosemary Simpson, Brigitte Schreyer, Tina Newlove, Allison Rutland. Education (19): Beatrice Fletcher, Mary M. McGrogan, Irma Coulson, Joan Rayfield, Linda Middaugh, Mary Kelly Richalicka, Ashwini Slevakumaran, Annika Peck, Jessica Brown, Minhal Ahnfed, Marissa Ologundudu, Sarah Salt. Community/Advocacy (15): Anna Ruddy, Myrtle Field, Helen Dewar, Louise Hebb, Shelagh Conway, Amelia Tomosky, Joyce Scott, Gwen Dryden, Marsha Waldie, Wendy Schau, Joan Kass, Cheryl Hayles, Cindy Lunau, Jan Mowbray, Donna Danielli. Community Politics (4): Anne MacArthur, Marjorie Powys, Indira Naidoo-Harris, Lisa Raitt. Service (7): Dr. Letita Meade-Sirrs, Edith Dick, Margaret Rasberry, Marie Clements, Sybil McLure, Penny MacLean, Jody Dugas. Government (4): Margaret Maxted, Olive Bell Massey, Mary Pettit, Jennifer Reynolds. Business: Carole Murray, Zella Bonin, Sandy Martin, Mandy Sedgwick, Mirella Marshall, Kirstine Stewart. | Sports (6): Mildred Evans, Darlene Kranstz, Tina Braam, Sheila Kuyper, Kirsten Wall, Kayla Alexander. touching that his grand- mother was being remem- bered and honoured more than 60 years after she wrote Halton's Pages of the Past, based on a series of articles she wrote for the Champion. Meaghan Richardson, the former president of the Halton Region Federation of Agriculture, was sur- prised when she got the call about her inclusion. said "It's quite an honour, the . co-founder of Farm Women of Halton. "You look around and you see a lot of very prominent women. It's quite inspir- ing. " Richardson "was im- pressed by how the wom- en's stories were present- ed. The concept was the work of one of the 100 wom- 'en honoured, Nancy Cut- tle, the first artist to have her work display in the Hall of Honour at Parlia- ment Hill. After CFUW members researched each of the women, their stories were presented on eight-foot tall pillars and placed chrono- logically, showing both the period in which the women lived as well as the period of their contributions. Cul- len was joined by other FASM artists who each took on one of the five pil- lars. CFUW national presi- dent Grace Hollett was im- pressed by the work of the Milton chapter and its abil- ity to tell and present the stories of the women in such an interesting way. "This is a project that can be replicated across the country." Hollett said. "It's wonderful when that can be done." The 100 Years 100 Wom- en project will be on dis- play in the Holcim Gallery for six. weeks. Other loca- tions around Milton have also expressed interest in hosting it in 2020. Q. 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