Information Unit for
Elementary School Teachers



Women and the Right to Vote


Around 1910, Canadian ___________ began to demand the right to vote. The women who fought for this right were known as the ____________________.

In 1917 many men had been drafted into the armed forces to fight in the__________
__________ _________ and Prime Minister Borden was afraid that this unpopular policy would cause him to lose the ___________ in this year. He gave women ___________ overseas the vote because he thought they would vote for him. He also gave the mothers, sisters, and wives of the young men who were _________________ the vote. His idea and plan worked and _______________ won the federal election. The next year, all women over the age of ______ were given the right to vote in ______________ elections. Then, in 1919, women were given the right to become Members of ______________.

Three ____________ women in the battle to gain the __________ to vote were Nellie McClung, Agnes Macphail, and Therese Casgrain. They were not the only women to campaign and fight for the rights of women in the electoral process.

 

Word Bank

Parliament   drafted    first world war 
suffragates right 20
federal women election
Borden important     nurses






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