(apologies, I wasn't able to get this up yesterday)
"In the 19th century, female property holders could demand municipal
voting rights on the principle of "no taxation without representation."
Propertied women in Québec voted unchallenged between 1809 and 1849,
when the word "male" was inserted into Québec's franchise act. What
Québec women lost, Ontario women soon gained: from 1850, women with
property, married or single, could vote for school trustees. By 1900
municipal voting privileges for propertied women were general throughout
Canada. But most 19th-century Canadians, women as well as men, believed
that the sexes had been assigned to "separate spheres" by natural and
divine laws that overrode mere man-made laws, and this stood squarely in
the way of achieving votes for all women as a democratic right.
At
the provincial level, public debate in Ontario began among members of
the Toronto Women's Literary Club, a screen for suffrage activities
created 1876 by Dr Emily Howard STOWE, Canada's first woman doctor. She and her daughter, Dr Augusta STOWE-GULLEN,
spearheaded Ontario's suffrage campaign for 40 years. In 1883 the club
became the Toronto Women's Suffrage Association, then in 1889 the
Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association - a national group in name
only.
Despite numerous petitions and bills, Ontario's lawmakers,
confident that they had public opinion behind them, repeatedly blocked
changes. Suffrage groups were thus forced to undertake long years of
public education. Valuable support came in the 1890s from the WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION, whose leaders saw votes for women as necessary in achieving PROHIBITION. In 1910, the respected and influential NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN spoke out for suffrage... "
read the entire entry at: Canadian Encyclopedia
see also: History of Women's Sufferage, Marionopolis Collge
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Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to
Alice Paul and the generations of brave women who joined together in the fight to pass the
19th Amendment, giving American women the right to vote in 1920.
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