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The Vote for Women

The Vote for Women. Women and the Vote. Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy and the “Famous Five”. Women were not allowed to Vote in Federal or Provincial Elections In the period leading up to World War One At the beginning of the war, Women had participated in the war effort

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The Vote for Women

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  1. The Vote for Women

  2. Women and the Vote Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy and the “Famous Five”

  3. Women were not allowed to • Vote in Federal or Provincial Elections • In the period leading up to World War • One • At the beginning of the war, Women • had participated in the war effort • Both at home and in Europe. In Europe, • Women helped care for the sick and • The wounded. • In Canada, women worked hard in the • Factories to supply much needed • Materials (e.g. Military equipment, food • Supplies, etc.) to aid the war effort. • Despite all this, women were still not • Allowed to vote in provincial elections Women and the Vote Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy and the “Famous Five”

  4. Nellie McClung • Nellie McClung: She was born in Ontario in 1873. • She was a School Teacher. • She later became a best selling novelist and prominent activist member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), a group that helped battle the effects of Alcohol abuse on family life. • In the early 1900s, women were not allowed to vote. As a result, she became involved in the “Suffragist Movement” (worked to gain the right to vote) for women. Nellie McClung

  5. The Fight for the Right to Vote • In 1914, McClung clashed with Manitoba premier Rodmond Roblin when he refused to grant women the right to vote in Manitoba. • Roblin referred to women suffragists as “Hyenas in Petticoats” • However, by 1916, McClung was successful in her fight to gain the right to vote for Women in Manitoba; the first province to do so. • To view the “Heritage Minute on Nellie McClung, please click this link: • Nellie McClung Rodmond Roblin

  6. The Right to Vote in Federal Elections • War-time Elections Act:Law which extended the right to vote to the mothers, wives, and sisters of the soldiers serving, while at the same time refusing that right to citizens from enemy countries.Introduced by Prime Minister Borden Prime Minister Borden

  7. Timeline for the Right to Vote for Women in Canada • Due to the efforts of Nellie McClung, Manitoba was the first Canadian Province to grant women the right to vote. Other provinces soon followed: • 1916: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta • 1917: British Columbia, Ontario • 1918: Nova Scotia, The Federal Government • 1919: New Brunswick • 1922: PEI • 1925: Newfoundland • 1940: Quebec

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