3.23 Women Get the Vote

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

Sir Robert Borden

Sir Leonard Tilly

Sir Sam Steele

Sir John A. Macdonald

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

Wives of adult white landowners

Working women

Women who practiced medicine

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

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

Only British people

All white males

Property-owning adult white males

Only Indigenous people

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

1920

1921

1919

1918

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

Women who worked in factories

Nurses at the battle front in World War I

Women who practiced medicine

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

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

1982

1867

1917

1777

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

1892

1867

1916

1949

#8. 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

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

Manitoba

Quebec

Ontario

Newfoundland and Labrador

#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 was the founder of the suffrage movement in Canada?

Thérèse Casgrain

Sir Robert Borden

Dr. Emily Stowe

Agnes Macphail

#12. Who was Agnes Macphail?

Select all that apply:

The first woman MP in Canada

A farmer

A teacher

The first woman to practice medicine in Canada

#13. What was the suffrage movement?

Efforts by women to gain the right to education

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 vote

#14. Who were the suffragettes?

Nurses who served in the battlefields of World War I

Loyalists who fled the US to settle in Canada

Women who fought for voting rights

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

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

1918

1924

1928

1914

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

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Thérèse Casgrain

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

Laura Secord

Emily Stowe

Therese Casgrain

Agnes MacPhail

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

1914

1930

1920

1940

Results

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#8. Who was Dr. Emily Stowe?

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

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

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

#12. Who was Agnes Macphail?

#13. What was the suffrage movement?

#14. Who were the suffragettes?

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

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

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

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