The efforts of The Industrial Committee (1906) were principally directed to the continuance of the work of the Mary Laura Ferguson Girls’ Club.
The establishment in the city of a Consumers’ League has been promoted through this committee.
It also organizes lectures on its main subjects of intellectual and artistic culture. On the social side it has committees of courtesy, library and hospitality. In general it cooperates with all civic movements to make Montreal a better place in which to live.
The gifts to philanthropic work included grants to the relief funds of the Royal Edward Institute and the Victorian Order of Nurses.
The club is affiliated with the Local Council of Women, the Civic Improvement League and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and is represented by delegates to the Parks and Playgrounds Association, and to the Child Welfare Moving Pictures Committee.
The club, this year attained its majority and celebrated the auspicious occasion by the usual Charter Day luncheon, entertaining as guests, the distinguished women of the National Council, in convention here. The felicitations and congratulations received, prove that the work, worth and earnest endeavours of the club have richly justified its existence.
The presidents of the club have been:
| Mrs. Robert Reid | 1892-02 |
| Miss Eglaugh | 1902-03 |
| Mrs. F.H. Waycott | 1903-06 |
| Miss Mary Ferguson | 1906-09 |
| Mrs. Alfred Ross Grafton | 1909-11 |
| Mrs. Ninian C. Smillie | 1911-13 |
| Madame Héliodore Fortier | 1913— |
THE MONTREAL LOCAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN
The Local Council of Women was organized as a component part of the National Council of Women, which was founded by Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the Governor-General of the time. As the aims of the Montreal Local Council of Women are modelled on those of the National Council, the following preamble to the constitution of the latter will illustrate the spirit of the local phase of the same movement: