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Manitoba became the first province to grant the right to vote to women, which extended to both White and Black women. The controversial Wartime Elections Act that passed on September 20, 1917, granted the federal vote to women associated with the armed forces.
Women’s suffrage (or franchise) is the right of women to vote in political elections; campaigns for this right generally included demand for the right to run for public office. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long struggle to address fundamental issues of equity and justice.
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.
Women championed a number of important human rights that have become core Canadian values — the right to vote in provincial and federal elections, the right to own property, the right to earn a fair wage, and finally, the right to be recognized as “persons” under the law.
Women in Canada obtained the right to vote in a sporadic fashion. Federal authorities granted them the franchise in 1918, more than two years after the women of Manitoba became the first to vote at the provincial level.
Women in Canada obtained the right to vote in a sporadic fashion. Federal authorities granted them the franchise in 1918, more than two years after the women of Manitoba became the first to vote at the provincial level.
How Canadian women fought for — and finally won — the right to vote. In this excerpt from "One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada," Joan Sangster outlines the challenges, setbacks, and victories of the suffragist movement. Written by TVO Current Affairs. Mar 8, 2018. Share.
Women's Right to Vote in Canada. An overview of the evolution of the electoral franchise for women in Canada, including both provincial and federal legislative decisions.
All women in Canada were granted the right to vote in federal elections. Until the Canada Elections Act was enacted in 1960, First Nations women could not vote unless they had lost or given up their treaty rights and Indian status.
It is true that women had the right to vote in the 1921 federal election. But - and this is a significant but - that didn't mean ALL women in Canada. At the time, aboriginal and Asian...