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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.
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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.
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3 – 7 November 1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, an arsonist, a socialist parliamentary candidate and later head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
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.
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]
The Canadian Museum of History originates from the collecting efforts of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), an organization established in 1842 in Montreal. [2] In 1856 the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada passed an act that enabled the GSC to establish a museum to exhibit items found from its geological and archaeological field trips; with the museum initially established in ...