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Dates People Locations visited Reasons 1990: 5/7 – 5/10 The Duke of Gloucester: Nova Scotia: Halifax Ontario: Ottawa, Toronto: Attend engagements related to the Order of Saint John: 5/16 – 5/17 The Duke of Edinburgh: New Brunswick: Fredericton: Engagements at CFB Gagetown with the Royal Canadian Regiment: 5/20 – 5/21 The Duke of Edinburgh
This is a list of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes who were born in Canada or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Monument to the Suffragettes is a public artwork located in Quebec City, Canada. [1] [2]Monument to the Suffragettes. The memorial is a sculpture of four key women in Quebec's political history: three suffragettes, Marie Lacoste Gérin-LaJoie, Idola Saint-Jean and Thérèse Forget-Casgrain; and Marie-Claire Kirkland, the first woman elected to the National Assembly.
The Famous Five (French: Célèbres cinq), also known as The Valiant Five, [1] and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby. [2]
Year Dates Persons Locations Reasons; 2010: 19–22 March [20]: The Earl and Countess of Wessex: British Columbia: Vancouver, Whistler; Attend events at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, meet with First Nations leaders and officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and distribute The Duke of Edinburgh's Awards.
Dublin Women's Suffrage Association – major Irish organization. [11]Irish Women's Franchise League – founded in 1908, more radical than the Dublin Association. [12]Irish Women's Suffrage Society – founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872, it was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north.
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada (2nd ed. U of Toronto Press, 1974) full text online; Domareki, Sarah. "Canadian Identity, Women's Suffrage, and the Rights of Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Stories and Activism of Nellie McClung and Thérèse Casgrain." American Review of Canadian Studies 48.2 (2018): 221-243.
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