January 1, 1916
Jan 28, 1916 - Manitoba was the first province in Canada to grant women the right to vote and to hold political office provincially.
Canadian Nursing Sisters voting at a Canadian Hospital in France. Decemeber 1917 Credit: William Ryder. Library and Archieves Canada* Online MIKAN no. 3194224 (1 item)
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"'Who will mind the baby?' cried one of our public men, in great agony of spirit, 'when the mother goes to vote?' One woman replied that she thought she could get the person that minded it when she went to pay her taxes - which seemed to be a fairly reasonable proposition."
Nellie McClung (1873-1951), a noted Canadian feminist, was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, wrote engaging portraits of smalltown life, and sat in the Alberta legislature in the 1920s. ID #20865 Credit: National Archives of Canada / PA-30212 To order a reproduction