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Sep 14, 2015 · On January 27, 1916, women in Manitoba became the first in Canada to win the right to vote in provincial elections. After years of lobbying by suffragists, the government of Tobias Norris voted unanimously to pass the women’s suffrage act. Alberta and Saskatchewan were quick to follow a few months later.
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Mar 8, 2018 · Surrounded by male candidates, suffragist Margaret Haile cut an incongruous figure when she spoke on election platforms during the 1902 Ontario provincial election. At the time, women could not vote, but Haile’s decision to run for the provincial legislature was nonetheless a smart strategy. The law barred women from voting, but it did not ...
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There were signs of some women being able to vote in the early 19th century in British North America, notably in Lower Canada but also in the Maritimes and Canada West. At least 27 Kanyen’kehà:ka women from Kahnawake, Lower Canada, cast ballots in an 1825 election. Some Catholic, Protestant and Jewish women with property also voted in early Quebec ...
By the last decades of the 19th century, Canadian women increasingly protested against discrimination in education and paid employment as well as violence against women and children. One remedy was the suffrage campaign, which was led by many first-generation university graduates and female professionals in medicine, teaching and journalism. Suffra...
Opposition to feminism seemed strongest in central and eastern Canada, while the western provinces appeared more receptive. The West’s greater openness to women’s suffrage can be interpreted as strategic: newly colonized regions relied on white settler women to guarantee the displacement of Indigenous peoples. The vote was to attract and reward whi...
Western suffragists found powerful supporters in the farm, labour and social gospel movements. Like men of their own class and community, Prairie suffragists never paid much attention to Indigenous women and were generally convinced of the superiority of Anglo-Celtic peoples. (See also Indigenous Women’s Issues.) On 28 January 1916, Manitoba women ...
During the First World War, pressure mounted on federal politicians in the Conservative — later the Union Government (1917) — of Sir Robert Borden. The government wished both to acknowledge women’s contribution to the war effort and to appeal to future female voters by extending the franchise; it also wanted to firm up support for conscription. The...
In Nova Scotia, women had been formally excluded from the provincial vote in 1851. In the 1890s, Nova Scotian women launched a campaign for the franchise. The suffrage movement was strongest in Halifax, where women championed progressive causes. Many activists were associated with the Local Council of Women and the WCTU. These included scholar and ...
In Quebec, suffrage supporters came from both the French and the English-speaking communities, but the former was hobbled by the opposition of the Catholic Church and by nationalist fears. Montreal’s Local Council of Women included many strong suffragists, including McGill University’s Carrie Derick and Octavia Grace Ritchie England. Québécoise suf...
Enslaved Black men and women were unable to vote. After the abolition of enslavement in 1834, land-owning Black people were granted the right to vote. However, like other women, Black women were disenfranchised in subsequent decades across British North Americaon the basis of their gender. Unlike Asian and Indigenous women, Black women’s right to v...
Asian residents were explicitly excluded from the vote under the 1885 federal franchise legislation. The 1920 Dominion Elections Act did not exclude Canadians of Asian heritage explicitly, but the Act stated that persons disenfranchised “for reasons of race” by provinces would not get the federal franchise. Since Chinese, Japanese and South Asians ...
Indigenous women were largely invisible in the suffrage campaigns. The vast majority of Canadian suffragists were of European origin. While some were sympathetic to Indigenous women, none campaigned to include First Nations or Inuit in legislation and most accepted the commonplace assumption that Status Indians were a “dying race.” Kanyen'kehà:ka-E...
In August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, starting World War One.Both the suffragists close Suffragists The name given to women using peaceful protest to try and win the right to vote. and ...
The 19th Amendment was not easily won. From the 1830s to 1920, a diverse group of activists used a multitude of strategies to win voting rights for women. Some focused on amending the U.S. Constitution. Others appealed to the states for women’s admission to the polls. They lobbied privately in their parlors and publicly in the halls of Congress.
May 24, 2017 · Canadian Museum of History, 987.19.10. May 24, 1918. On May 24, 1918, women were granted suffrage, or the right to vote, in federal elections. This historic step followed a limited victory, in 1917, which allowed women who were immediate family of soldiers overseas to vote federally. The groundwork for these advances had been laid in four ...
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Sep 19, 2019 · Ontario became the fifth province to grant women the right to vote on 12 April 1917, after more than half a century of activism by suffragists.Beginning in the 1870s, Ontario’s suffrage movement emerged from the vibrant nation-wide mobilization of middle class women who sought political representation as a means to improve women’s rights and assert influence in social, economic and ...
