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Adelaide’s Beginnings

Adelaide Hunter, the youngest of 12 children, was born in February 1857 here at the Homestead.

Her father, David Hunter, died a few months after her birth leaving her mother, Jane Hamilton Hunter, a widow. Jane rose to the challenge of managing the farm and a large household.

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She no doubt provided Adelaide with a powerful role model for the woman she would eventually grow up to be.

After her years in a one-room schoolhouse, Adelaide stayed with her older sister Lizzie while attending Ladies College in Brantford, Ontario.

While there, she met John Hoodless. He was the only surviving son of a successful Hamilton furniture manufacturer. When they married, she exchanged the name ‘Addie’ for ‘Adelaide’. She also exchanged her life as a hard-working girl in a full and busy rural farmhouse for the life of a Victorian socialite.

Supported by servants in the upkeep of a fine home, Adelaide and John had four children.

Then personal tragedy struck: their yo