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Nova Scotia Franchise Act, Statutes of Nova Scotia 1918, c. 2: For women who were not Asian or Indigenous: [24] full voting equality with men, only property owners could vote: George Henry Murray: Liberal: 1918: May 24: Federal: An Act to confer the Electoral Franchise upon Women, Statutes of Canada 1918, c. 20
The Women's Franchise Act is an act of the Parliament of Canada.Passed in 1918, the act allowed female citizens of Canada to vote in federal elections. [1] [2] [3] Universal suffrage was not attained in 1918, as women electors had to meet the same requirements as men in order to vote.
The provinces began extending voting rights to women in 1916, and women were finally allowed to vote in federal elections in 1918. Canada was also faced with the return of thousands of soldiers, with few jobs waiting for them at home.
Ethel Dickenson. Ethel Gertrude Dickenson (July 6, 1880 – October 26, 1918) was an educator and nurse born in St. John's, Newfoundland.She is noted as being one of the Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador for her tireless work and death in the care of patients during the outbreak of Spanish influenza at St. John's in 1918.
Women's federal voting rights changed in 1917 with the Wartime Elections Act. This act granted voting rights to women with relatives in the military. This act was a huge step for the suffrage movement in Canada. And in 1919 the Act to Confer the Electoral Franchise upon Women was passed granting women the right to vote federally. [45]
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August 2 – The Vancouver general strike, the first general strike in Canada, triggered by the killing of Ginger Goodwin by police. August 8 – World War I: At the Battle of Amiens superior Canadian gunners assist a great allied breakthrough (also called Canada's 100 Days) August 26 – September 3 – Battle of Arras, 1918
Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. And though we are by no means a monolith — in fact, we fall into every ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and ideological group — we have historically been underrepresented politically. This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative.