WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN CANADA.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 9

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN CANADA.

March sth, 1917. (To the Editor “The White Ribbon”) Dear Mrs Peryman,—l know your readers will rejoice to hear that a great victory for the cause of Woman Suffrage has ju>t been won in Canada. Everybody knows that during the last year Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia granted this measure of justice to their women. But the more densely populated Eastern Provinces still lagged behind. The news has just reached me from the President of the Canadian National Suffrage Association that the provincial franchise was granted to the women of Ontario on March Ist. The only province of importance now left unfranchised is Quebec, and though in that province public opinion is extremely conservative, it is difficult to believe that Quebec can long resist the influence of the rest of the Dominion. The Federal Franchise tor the Dominion will follow naturally. This means that in three ot the self-govern-ing Dominions the women have their energies free for the great work of reconstruction which iz awaiting us all. The women of Great Britain and South Africa will look upon this new gain to the cause as a fresh stimulus to them in their struggles for the same freedom. Should any ot the leaders in othe r Dominions wish to send their congratulations direct to Canada, the address is:—Dr Margaret Gordon, President, National Canadian Suffrage* Association, 720, Spadina Avenue, Toronto. She sent the’ message to me that I might send it on to you. A victory su« h as this is another link which binds the w'onmn of the Empire together. Yours with all good wishes, HARRIET C. NEWCOMB, Hon. Secretary.