3.23 Women Get the Vote – 🍁The Canadian Experience

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

Thérèse Casgrain

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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

Manitoba

Newfoundland and Labrador

Quebec

Ontario

#3. Who was Agnes Macphail?

Select all that apply:

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

The first woman MP in Canada

A teacher

A farmer

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

Agnes Macphail

Thérèse Casgrain

Sir Robert Borden

Dr. Emily Stowe

#5. Who was Dr. Emily Stowe?

Select all that apply:

The first woman publisher in Canada

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

Founder of suffrage movement in Canada

The first woman MP in Canada

#6. Who were the suffragettes?

Loyalists who fled the US to settle in Canada

Nurses who served in the battlefields of World War I

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

Women who fought for voting rights

#7. What was the suffrage movement?

Efforts by women to gain the right to vote

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 own property

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

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

Women who practiced medicine

Women who worked in factories

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

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

1918

1928

1924

1914

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

Thérèse Casgrain

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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

Sir Sam Steele

Sir Leonard Tilly

Sir John A. Macdonald

Sir Robert Borden

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

1918

1920

1921

1919

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

All white males

Only British people

Only Indigenous people

Property-owning adult white males

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

1892

1916

1867

1949

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

Working women

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

Wives of adult white landowners

Women who practiced medicine

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

1867

1777

1982

1917

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

Emily Stowe

Therese Casgrain

Agnes MacPhail

Laura Secord

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

1930

1914

1940

1920