WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE IN CANADA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Autor: Ratansi, Yasmin
• Assuntos: Women
• É parte de: Parliamentarian, 2018-01, Vol.99 (3), p.226
• Descrição: 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of women's first right to vote in Canada On 28 January 1916, Manitoba passed a Bill to Amend the Manitoba Elections Act and became the first Canadian province to allow women the right to vote. This Bill granted the right to vote to women 21 years of age and older who were British subjects (by birth or by naturalization) in the provincial elections. Alberta and Saskatchewan followed with granting women the right to vote in the same year and British Columbia the following year. At the end of the 19th century, women in Canada began to organize themselves to fight for their right to vote. The Women's Suffrage Society, Canada's first suffragette association was created in 1883. Although women in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan were granted the right to vote in 1916, not all Canadian women enjoyed the same rights during the same period.
  
• Editor: London: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
  
• Idioma: Inglês