Vote for women

Women's Suffrage

By sarahsquared1

  • Independence

    Independence
    • Teaching pension
    • The Election Act
    • Ownership of properties after marriage

  • Voting privileges

    Voting privileges
    • Women's right to vote was taken away

  • The Manitoba Political Equality League

    • Was founded in Winnipeg by a group of women including Nellie McClung

  • In Manitoba

    In Manitoba
    • Women gain the right to vote and run for provincial elections

  • In Saskatchewan

    • Women gain the right to vote

  • In Alberta

    • Women gain the right to vote

  • Emily Murphy

    Emily Murphy

  • Military Voters Act

    • Allowed nurses and women in the armed service to vote

  • The Wartime elections act

    • This act was extended to women with relatives serving oversees
    • Now all women over 21 had the right to vote

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment
    • The 15th amendment declared it illegal to deny any person the right to vote, this did not include women
    • The 19th amendment included women

  • The First Election for Women

    The First Election for Women
    • Women could vote and run for office
    • Four women ran
    • Agnes Mcphail wins an independent from Ontario and served for 19 years
    • Nellie Mclung is elected as a Liberal member in the Alberta Legislature

  • Divorce

    • The federal divorce law is changed allowing women for the first time to obtain a divorce on the same grounds as men

  • Denied by the Supreme Court

    • The supreme court declared that women were not considered 'persons'
    • "The iron dropped into the souls of women in Canada when we heard that it took a man to decree that his mother was not a person."

  • The Famous Five

    The Famous Five
    • The Famous Five, as Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Louise Crummy McKinney took their case to the Privy council in England and got women recognized as persons under the law