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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.

The National Council of Women

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“Votes for Women” pennant
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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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January 1907 Issue of Freyja, Suffragist Monthly Magazine
1893 Petition by Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
“Votes for Women” pennant
Political Equality League Presents Petition, 1915
Nursing Sisters, 1917
The National Council of Women
Thérèse Casgrain

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