'Women's Institute aims to raise the standard of homemaking, maintain the national tradition of handicrafts, promote education particularly in rural areas, improve the welfare of child and health of the public, teach Canadian Citizenship, have a true spirit of patriotism, promoting world unity and international understanding.'

Jane C. Pearson, comp., and Wendy Lessard, ed., A Brief History of Womens Organizations in Lennoxville, Lennoxville, Bishops University, 1974, p. 5.