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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
At the time, the primarily Anglo-Canadian suffrage activists had not engaged the city's large immigrant population. [2] She married Sigfus Benedictsson and the couple co-founded Freyja, an Icelandic journal focused on the women's rights movement. Freyja eventually became the most important women's suffrage newspaper in Canada. It was published ...
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.
The Anti-Suffrage Review also used shame as a tool to fight against the suffrage movement. [19] An Anti-suffrage correspondence had taken place in the pages of The Times through 1906–1907, with further calls for leadership of the anti-suffrage movement being placed in The Spectator in February 1908. Possibly as early as 1907, a letter was ...
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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]
The Canadian Wartime Elections Act (French: Loi des élections en temps de guerre) was a bill passed on September 20, 1917, [1] by the Conservative government of Robert Borden during the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and was instrumental in pushing Liberals to join the Conservatives in the formation of the Canadian Unionist government. While the ...