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The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada (2nd ed. U of Toronto Press, 1974) full text online; Domareki, Sarah. "Canadian Identity, Women's Suffrage, and the Rights of Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Stories and Activism of Nellie McClung and Thérèse Casgrain." American Review of Canadian Studies 48.2 (2018): 221-243.
Helena Gutteridge fought for women's suffrage in BC. 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 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. [1]
The Famous Five built their foundation for women's rights on the idea of women in the Senate. However, none of the Famous Five ever became a part of the Senate, they opened the doors for Cairine Wilson, the first female senator. [15] [16] The achievement of personhood for women had been a monumental change which gave more power to women.
Canadian men and women both became involved in debating the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th century. [13] Women's suffrage was debated in the Legislative Assembly in New Brunswick starting in 1885, and anti-suffrage "testimonies" began to appear in the newspapers around that time. [14]
The women's movement united again when the two biggest women's organizations, the Lebanese Women's Union and the Christian Women's Solidarity Association created the Lebanese Council of Women in 1952 to campaign for women's suffrage, a task that finally succeeded, after an intense campaign.
A federation of nationally-organized societies of men and women and local and provincial councils of women, it is the Canadian member of the International Council of Women (ICW). The Council has concerned itself in areas including women's suffrage, immigration, health care, education, mass media, the environment, and many others. [1]
The guild had some success in improving access to higher education for women. It was renamed the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association in 1883 [2] with Jessie (McEwen) Turnbull as its first president. [3] The Toronto-based association worked towards opening up education to women, and allowing women to advance as professionals, particularly as ...