Divided by the Ballot Box: The Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 Election.
Prime Minister Robert Borden created the Wartime Elections Act in September 1917 – a move that granted temporary voting rights to women who had close relatives serving in the military. Their votes were positioned as key to winning the war because it was assumed that newly enfranchised wives and moth...
| Published in: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 473 - 502 |
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University of Toronto Press
Dec2008
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