3.23 Women Get the Vote

#1. Who was Agnes Macphail?

Select all that apply:

A farmer

A teacher

The first woman MP in Canada

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

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

1892

1916

1949

1867

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

Property-owning adult white males

Only British people

All white males

Only Indigenous people

#4. Who was Dr. Emily Stowe?

Select all that apply:

The first woman MP in Canada

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

Founder of suffrage movement in Canada

The first woman publisher in Canada

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

1920

1921

1918

1919

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

1940

1920

1914

1930

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

Wives of adult white landowners

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

Women who practiced medicine

Working women

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

Thérèse Casgrain

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Sir Robert Borden

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

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Dr. Emily Stowe

Agnes Macphail

Thérèse Casgrain

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

1918

1924

1914

1928

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

Agnes MacPhail

Laura Secord

Therese Casgrain

Emily Stowe

#13. Who were the suffragettes?

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

Women who fought for voting rights

Nurses who served in the battlefields of World War I

Loyalists who fled the US to settle in Canada

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

Newfoundland and Labrador

Ontario

Quebec

Manitoba

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

Thérèse Casgrain

Dr. Emily Stowe

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Agnes Macphail

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

1982

1777

1917

1867

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

Sir John A. Macdonald

Sir Robert Borden

Sir Sam Steele

Sir Leonard Tilly

#18. What was the suffrage movement?

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

Efforts by women to gain the right to vote

Efforts by women to gain the right to education

Efforts by women to gain the right to own property

Results

#1. Who was Agnes Macphail?

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

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

#4. Who was Dr. Emily Stowe?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#13. Who were the suffragettes?

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

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

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

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

#18. What was the suffrage movement?