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Women's Suffrage
Canadian Nursing Sisters in France vote in the 1917 election. The Wartime Election Act (1917) enfranchised women serving in the military, as well as those with a father, brother, or son overseas. The war hastened female suffrage at the federal level.
George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19930013-578
Canadian Nursing Sisters in France vote in the 1917 election. The Wartime Election Act (1917) enfranchised women serving in the military, as well as those with a father, brother, or son overseas. The war hastened female suffrage at the federal level.
George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19930013-578
