The Women Suffrage Movement began in 1916. Women wanted to have equal rights and in Saskatchewan there was a group called the Saskatchewan Women Grain Growers. A few women saw that being able to vote was a way to ensure prohibition laws would be passed. In Southern Saskatchewan the husbands supported the women, and with this support they were some of the first females able to vote in Canada.

Women gave birth to their children on the homestead. The doctor came to the homestead to help with the labor. Pregnancies were considered to be low priority by the town doctor. The doctor rarely ever treated a patient at his house. A doctor sometimes travelled through storms, day or night in order to get to the patient. He lived a very rough life, and so tended to stay in one community for only a short time, and would often go elsewhere looking for better conditions. As a result midwives were very common during the early 1900s. A midwife is a person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth.