Image of five competitors; location unknown.

Eight females standing behind two tables doing costume selection. Location unknown.

Two women in the process of flower arranging.

Five females belonging to the Milden, Saskatchewan club wearing and displaying their skirts they made.

One image of club leaders sitting and standing around Emma Ducie, who is seated at centre. Also three images of several club leaders posing informally.

Bio/Historical Note: Emma Jane Roberts Ducie was born 28 April 1883 in the Morley, Yorkshire, England. and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1907. She married Harry Ducie, a farmer and school trustee, in 1909; they had three children, Harold, Rose, and Emmie. Emma Ducie organized the Coates Homemakers' Club and continued to be an active member of the Clubs and Women's Institutes at the local, provincial, and national level. Ducie also served with the Saskatoon Council of Women, the Saskatoon Friendship Club and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Ducie was also a long-serving member of the advisory council for the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. Emma Ducie died 3 December 1990 at age 107.

Emmie Ducie examining Homecraft Club display of sewing during her tenure as Supervisor of Girls' Work with the U of S Extension Department. Note patriotic symbols/photos on display also. This may be a display of items made for war and post-war relief work.

Bio/Historical Note: Emmie Ducie Oddie was born in 1916 in the Coates district near Dundurn, Saskatchewan. Her elementary schooling was taken in a one-room school at Coates; she was awarded the Governor-General's Medal in Grade 8. Her high school was largely by correspondence, via Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon. Oddie earned a BSc in Home Economics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1941, and her MSc from Washington State in 1943. She worked, variously, at the Extension Division of the University of Saskatchewan (1940-1942); as Home Economist for the Department of Agriculture (1943); as Nutritionist for the Toronto branch of the Red Cross (1943-1945); as Supervisor of Girls' Work, Extension Division, U of S (1945-1946); as Special Lecturer, in a joint appointment with Extension and the College of Home Economics (1969-1973); part-time at the Regina Campus/University of Regina (1973-1975); and perhaps was best known for her regular column in The Western Producer, for 50 years, beginning in 1949. Oddie was president of the Saskatchewan Home Economics Association and the Canadian Home Economics Association; served as president of the Saskatchewan Women's Institute and Federated Women's Institutes of Canada; was a member of the Saskatchewan Arts Board for 10 years and of the Saskatchewan Milk Control Board for 16 years. Emmie Oddie died 6 July 2013 in Regina at age 97

Emma Ducie and F. Hedley Auld, Deputy Minister, talking to a woman; outdoor scene.

Bio/Historical Note: Emma Roberts Ducie was born in England in 1883 and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1907. She married Harry Ducie, a farmer and school trustee, in 1909; they had three children, Harold, Rose, and Emmie. Emma Ducie organized the Coates Homemakers' Club and continued to be an active member of the Clubs and Women's Institutes at the local, provincial, and national level. Ducie also served with the Saskatoon Council of Women, the Saskatoon Friendship Club and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Ducie was also a long-serving member of the advisory council for the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. Ducie died in 1990.

Women exercising indoors during an Inter-club event. Piano player and spectators in background.

Display of grain in bags and bunches of straw tied with the grain heads intact. Signs in the background, "Speers Junior Grain Club", in the foreground, "Speers Junior Grain Club, sponsored by Speers Board of Trade & McCabe Bros. Grain Co."

Display of sheaves of grain and smaller bunches tied together. Trophies and awards lined up on a table with F. Fasnacht, leader, sitting on the right side with a club sign in front of him.

Display of grains fastened to a wall in the background with trophies sitting on a table below. Signs, flags, emblems and pictures also shown in the photo.