3.23 Women Get the Vote – 🍁The Canadian Experience

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#1. Who was the first woman to practice medicine in Canada?

Laura Secord

Emily Stowe

Agnes MacPhail

Therese Casgrain

#2. What was the suffrage movement?

Efforts by women to gain the right to own property

Efforts by women to gain the right to work in the government

Efforts by women to gain the right to education

Efforts by women to gain the right to vote

#3. Who was the first elected woman MP in Canada?

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Thérèse Casgrain

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

#4. When did Canadian women obtain the right to vote in Federal elections?

1777

1917

1867

1982

#5. Who were the first women to be granted the right to vote in Canadian federal elections?

Working women

Women who practiced medicine

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

Wives of adult white landowners

#6. Who were the suffragettes?

Nurses who served in the battlefields of World War I

Women who fought for voting rights

Loyalists who fled the US to settle in Canada

Chinese immigrants who were discriminated against by levying a head-tax

#7. Who was Agnes Macphail?

Select all that apply:

A farmer

A teacher

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

The first woman MP in Canada

#8. Who was eligible to vote in Canada at the time of the Confederation?

Only Indigenous people

Only British people

All white males

Property-owning adult white males

#9. Who were the second group of women to be granted the right to vote in Canadian federal elections?

Women who practiced medicine

Women related to men in active wartime service in World War I

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

Women who worked in factories

#10. By when did most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over get the right to vote in federal elections?

1924

1928

1914

1918

#11. When did Quebec grant women the right to vote?

1930

1914

1920

1940

#12. Who was the founder of the suffrage movement in Canada?

Dr. Emily Stowe

Sir Robert Borden

Agnes Macphail

Thérèse Casgrain

#13. When was the first woman MP elected in Canada?

1919

1920

1921

1918

#14. Who was Dr. Emily Stowe?

Select all that apply:

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

The first woman publisher in Canada

Founder of suffrage movement in Canada

The first woman MP in Canada

#15. Whose work contributed to women gaining the right to vote in Quebec in 1940?

Thérèse Casgrain

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

#16. Who led the federal government when women were granted the right to vote in the federal elections?

Sir Sam Steele

Sir John A. Macdonald

Sir Robert Borden

Sir Leonard Tilly

#17. When did Canadian women first gain the right to vote in Canada?

1949

1892

1916

1867

#18. Which Canadian Province was the first to grant women the right to vote?

Newfoundland and Labrador

Ontario

Manitoba

Quebec