Womens Right to Vote

Suffrage

Right to vote in political elections

Suffragette

A woman seeking the right to vote thanks to militant protests

Enfranchise

Giving a person the legal right to vote

Temperance Movement

A social movement that promoted abstinence from alcohol to cure social ills

What happened in the early 1870s in Nova Scotia?

First campaign for women to gain right to vote took place in Canada.

Who didn’t want to give women right to vote?

Men

What is the Toronto Women Literacy Guild?

During 1920s, fought for women’s rights

What did women fight for?

Higher education, right to vote, and the right to be considered a person

Until when were women not considered a person in Canada?

1929

When were some Canadian women allowed to vote at a federal level?

1917

What was the first province that allowed women the right to vote?

Manitoba 1916

What office were women also allowed tor in for?

Political

Who were excluded from the right to vote?

Asian and Indigenous

How did Asian men and women receive the right to vote?

After Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN

How did suffragettes spread the idea of women’s suffrage?

Built networks of activists across Canada and internationally

During the temperance movement what did many women believe in?

Prohibition

Who were the famous Five?

Five Canadian suffragists from Alberta

What is the persons case?

The right of women to sit in the Senate

Emily Murphy

First woman to serve as a municipal judge in British empire

Irene Parlby

Leader of the women farmers organization, activist and first woman appointed to the Alberta government

Nellie McClung

Famous suffragist and elected member to the Alberta legislature

Lovise McKinney

First woman in the British Empire to be elected to the legislative assembly

Henrietta Muir Edwards

Workers’ advocate and founding member of the VON