Women Winning the Vote in Canada

More Resources

Web Links

Canadian Museum of Civilization "Explore a History of the Vote in Canada" web module

Early Canadiana Online

Elections Canada

National Library of Canada, Memorable Canadians

National Library of Canada, Celebrating Women's Achievements

PBS Online: "One Woman, One Vote: A Short History and Guide

Status of Women in Canada

Timelinks: Manitoba History 1910-1920

University of Saskatchewan, Herstory: An Exhibition / Politics Gallery

Petitions for the enfranchisement of women presented to the Premier of Manitoba by the Political Equality League, December 23, 1914 © Provincial Archives of Manitoba/ N9906, December 23, 1914

Books and Brochures

Atkinson, Diane
Suffragettes in the Purple White and Green, London 1906-14, Exhibit guide. London : Museum of London, 1992.

Bacchi, Carol
"Liberation Deferred?" The Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983.

Cleverdon, Catherine
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, first published in 1950, 2nd ed., 1974.

Elections Canada
A History of the Vote in Canada, Ottawa: Public Works and Government Services, 1997.

Kealey, Linda
Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1993), pp. 122-32.

Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Recreation
"E. Cora Hind," pamphlet, 1984; "Nellie McClung," pamphlet, (1985); "Lillian Beynon Thomas," pamphlet, 1986; "Dr. Amelia Yeomans," pamphlet, 1985. Historic Resources Branch, Winnipeg.

McClung, Nellie
In Times Like These, first published in 1915, new ed. in the Social History of Canada series, with introduction by Veronica Strong-Boag, Toronto.
University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Prentice, Alison, et. al.
Canadian Women: A History, Toronto: Harcourt Brace and Company, Canada, 2nd edition, 1996.

Smith, Harold L.
The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928, London and New York: Longman, 1998.