Voters rights

• • Women in federal elections: 1918
  • Women in provincial elections: Manitoba, 1916
  • Chinese and South-Asian Candians: 1947
  • Japanese Canadians: 1949
  • Inuit: 1950
  • First Nations: 1960
  • All Canadian citizens: 1982
  • Intellectual disabilities: 1993
  • Prisoners: 2002
• Criteria used to determine who could vote 

  • British subjects
  • Over 21
  • Owned a specific amount of property (women didn’t own property)
  • Needed to swear a loyalty oath
• 7 women voted in the West Halton district of Canada West (Ontario). They had all inherited property from their dead husbands.
• Wartime Elections Act - 

  Female relatives of military men could vote federally in ww1 in 1917. (Women serving in medical corps could vote federally in Military Service Act)
• Canadian Citizenship Act - It granted voting rights to all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic background.
• • Suffrage: the right to vote in public elections
• • Suffragists: the women who pushed for voting rights
• Suffragists Main Arguements

  • Both genders are equal
  • Since women have experience in the home and with families, they would have a unique viewpoint that would improve society if they were allowed to vote.