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Women's Suffrage in Canada
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 intended to address fundamental issues of equity and justice and to improve the lives of Canadians.
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Women's Suffrage
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.
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Indigenous Suffrage
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Women's Suffrage in the West
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Women's Suffrage in Atlantic Canada
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Women's Suffrage in the North
Education Guides
Women's Suffrage Education Guide and Worksheets
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![January 1907 Issue of Freyja, Suffragist Monthly Magazine January 1907 Issue of Freyja, Suffragist Monthly Magazine](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/90f99bcc-7ffe-4fa1-9d63-84f1794594aa.jpg)
![1893 Petition by Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1893 Petition by Woman’s Christian Temperance Union](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/7770f93e-7f5e-4cb8-b6ad-57df24227db6.jpg)
![“Votes for Women” pennant “Votes for Women” pennant](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/88bab6f6-366c-45d5-be02-092e23d46e97.jpg)
![Political Equality League Presents Petition, 1915 Political Equality League Presents Petition, 1915](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/caad1258-7b0d-4136-b1c8-919fb7b00f33.jpg)
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![Nursing Sisters, 1917 Nursing Sisters, 1917](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/51079001-dcca-4126-9416-d7ded26b6ce7.jpg)
![The National Council of Women The National Council of Women](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/569d6d96-ffeb-485f-aa88-98b968b29e2a.jpg)
![Thérèse Casgrain Thérèse Casgrain](https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/0160ac95-9773-4534-a27c-b30d1670fb32.jpg)
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