L. Condon/Underwood Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images. However, at the provincial level, Quebec was the last holdout, only granting women the right to vote in provincial elections in 1940! NWSA and AWSA merge and the National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed. 1912 The Political Equality League founded in Manitoba. In 1912, the Montreal Suffrage Association mobilized its forces to fight for the right of women to vote in federal elections. The year 2008 marked the 90th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in Canada. Susan B. Anthony was the best-known women's suffrage proponent of her time, and her fame led to her image gracing a U.S. dollar coin in the late 20th century. suffrage groups had existed since the 1870s, but during the war it was hard to ignore their arguments. It all started in Manitoba. On January 28, 1916, Manitoba became the first province in Canada to extend the franchise to women voters. After years of lobbying by suffragists, the government of Tobias Norris voted unanimously to pass the women’s suffrage act. Alberta and Saskatchewan were quick to follow a few months later. On January 28—the date that Manitoba became the first province to pass women’s voting rights into law—Library and Archives Canada (LAC), in partnership with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights , will officially launch an outdoor exhibition titled Let Them Howl: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage . She wasn't involved in the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention that first proposed the idea of suffrage as a goal for the women's rights movement, … Suffrage expanded to the federal level over the next few years: In 1917 nurses and women in the armed forces could vote, then women whose fathers, husbands, or sons were serving overseas. Manitoba was the first province to enfranchise women in 1916. On the provincial level, some women in Canada could vote beginning in 1916. Women in Canada were not allowed to vote in 1900’s, and got less benefits compared to men. 2. The Canadian Women's Suffrage: Home Canadian Women's Suffrage The Famous Five International Sisters Resources ... Five long months after the case was presented, on October 18th, 1929, the law was passed to include women as persons. The major pro of the women's suffrage movement was, of course, the fact that it gained women the right to vote. At the time, suffrage, or the right to vote, was only open to British males over the age of 20 who owned a house. 1888. Therefore, Canadian women has tried to prove that they are also strong, and can do whatever they want. In 1883, it changed its name to the Toronto Women’s Suffrage Association. At the Federal (national) level, Canada granted limited female franchise in 1917, followed by full women’s suffrage (for most women) in 1918. 1900 Most women property owners in Canada can vote in municipal elections. The major exception is Catherine Cleverdon's study. The woman suffrage movement in Canada had its beginning in 1878 under the leadership of Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, who was one of the founders and the first president of the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association, incorporated in 1889. The Women's Suffrage movement in Canada began in 1876 when Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, the first doctor in Canada, launched an aggressive campaign in Ontario to try and give women the same rights in elections as men. One of these trailblazers was Canada’s first female physician, Dr. Emily Stowe, who founded the Toronto Women’s Literary Club as a front for suffrage activity. Learn how the franchise for women was achieved in this Telling Times documentary.