Thanks to Thérèse Casgrain and others, in what year did Quebec give women the right to vote?
- 1916
- 1918
- 1940
- 1960
Answer: 1940
Thanks to Thérèse Casgrain and others, Quebec gave women the vote in 1940. That was much later than Manitoba, the first province, in 1916, and later than 1918, when most women won the federal vote.
Learn more: Women get the vote
- The effort by women to win the vote is called the women’s suffrage movement.
- Its founder in Canada was Dr. Emily Stowe, the first Canadian woman to practise medicine in Canada.
- In 1916 Manitoba became the first province to give women the vote.
- In 1917 Sir Robert Borden’s federal government gave the vote first to nurses at the front, then to women related to men in active wartime service.
- In 1918 most Canadian women aged 21 and over won the right to vote in federal elections.
- In 1921 Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman Member of Parliament.
- Thanks to Thérèse Casgrain and others, Quebec gave women the vote in 1940.