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Women's suffrage in Canada occurred at different times in different jurisdictions to different demographics of women. Women's right to vote began in the three prairie provinces. In 1916, suffrage was earned by women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The federal government granted limited war-time suffrage to some women in 1917 and ...
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia; Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – politician, author, social activist, member of The Famous Five; Sarah Galt Elwood McKee (1842–1934) – social reformer and temperance leader
Margret Benedictsson (16 March 1866 – 13 December 1956) was an Icelandic-Canadian suffrage activist and journalist. [1] Born in Iceland to Jon Jonsson, a harness-maker, and Kristjana Ebeneserdottir, a servant. At the age of 13, she began working as a shepherdess.
The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, originally called the Toronto Women's Literary Guild, was an organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that fought for women's rights. After the association had been inactive for a while, the leaders founded the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association in 1889.
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Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings; May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) [1] was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada [2] and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. [3]
Organizing around women's suffrage in Canada peaked in the mid-1910s. Various franchise clubs were formed, and in Ontario, the Toronto Women's Literary Club was established in 1876 as a guise for suffrage activities, though by 1883 it was renamed the Toronto Women's Suffrage Association. [13]
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (née, Roberts; 17 February 1864 – 8 November 1922) [1] was a Canadian writer of poetry, children's literature, essays, and short stories. She regularly contributed articles to a number of Canadian and U.S. dailies. [2] MacDonald was also one of the leaders of women's suffrage in Canada. [2] She died in 1922.