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The Dominion Elections Act [1] (French: Acte des élections fédérales) [13] was a bill passed by the House of Commons of Canada in 1920, under Robert Borden's Unionist government. The Act allowed white women to run for the Parliament of Canada.
The statute restricted the right to vote to men over 21 who were either born or naturalized British subjects. [27] Amendments from the original text of the bill restricted the franchise considerably, preventing all women, [ 5 ] most Indigenous people west of Ontario, [ 5 ] and those of "Mongolian or Chinese race" [ 6 ] [ 28 ] from voting.
The 1957 Canadian federal election was held June 10, 1957, to select the 265 members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 23rd Parliament of Canada.In one of the greatest upsets in Canadian political history, the Progressive Conservative Party (also known as "PCs" or "Tories"), led by John Diefenbaker, brought an end to 22 years of Liberal rule, as the Tories were able to form a minority ...
Kentucky is admitted as a new state, giving the vote to free men regardless of color or property ownership, although the vote would shortly be taken away from free Black people. [5] Delaware removes property ownership as requirement to vote, but continues to require that voters pay taxes. [3] 1798. Georgia removes tax requirement for voting. [3]
This is a page that aims to document commonly-used map colors for election maps of Canadian elections, so maps have consistent coloring. A map should either use colors to indicate percentage, the "win" colors, or the "hold" and "gain" colors. These should not be mixed - for example, no map should use both the "win" and "gain" colors.
The 1917 Canadian federal election (sometimes referred to as the khaki election) was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 13th Parliament of Canada. Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription (see ...
Unlike in the United States, racial segregation in Canada applied to all non-whites and was historically enforced through laws, court decisions and social norms with a closed immigration system that barred virtually all non-whites from immigrating until 1962. Section 38 of the 1910 Immigration Act permitted the government to prohibit the entry ...
Year that status Indians were granted the right to vote in federal elections: 1960. Year that status Indians were granted the right to vote in Quebec provincial elections: 1969 [21] First Indigenous person elected to a legislature in Canada: Solomon White, Ontario Conservative Party, 1878–1886 and 1890–1894 (first Native elected anywhere in ...