Winnipeg Free Press “We were young and vigorous and full of ambition. We would rewrite our history. We would copy no other country. We would be ourselves, and proud of it.” — Nellie McClung.
There was no social media, few had telephones, limited transportation, no viral videos of discrimination but what these women had was a desire to have a voice with their individual recognized right to vote. Thank you ladies for being the trailblazers. May we never give up on helping others find their voice.
“A group of women in Manitoba used it to win the right to vote a century ago.The province was the first place in Canada to bring in women’s suffrage, on Jan. 28, 1916. That triggered a wave of changes — first in Western Canada and finally at the federal level in 1919. Indigenous people, it should be noted, did not get the vote federally until 1960.” “Businesswoman Martha Jane Hample, who would go on to become a member of the provincial legislature, helped bankroll the activities of the league. Outside Winnipeg, there were other hives of suffragist activity in Gimli and in the Roaring River district.”
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/a-century-ago-a-savvy-political-campaign-won-women-the-right-to-vote-366342001.html
