Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1972-02
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extent: 16 pages
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note: A WOMEN'* LIBERATION NEWSPAPER, VANCOUVER. BC VOLUME IV NOZ w FEB 1972 U5AN R ANTHONY FEB \5> I page i - pedestal - feb 72 NELLIE McCLUNG from No. i Studies of the Royal Commission Cultural Tradition and Political History Women received the suffrage first in the Prairie Provinces. This was parallel to the trend in the United States, where the vote was given to women in ' the frontier states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho before the end of the 19th century. The territory of Wyoming, which had decreed full political equality in 1869, became in 1890 the first state to enter the Union with full suffrage for women. In Canada, most people in the traditionally conservative Maritime Provinces long remained apathetic or unsympathetic to female suffrage. On January 28, 1916, Manitoba passed the first woman suffrage act in Canada. For the first time in Canadian history women were granted full political enfranchisement in provincial elections and the right to sit in a provincial legislature. When the bill passed its third reading by unanimous vote on January 27, the galleries of the Legislature were packed with women who cheered wildly and sand, "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows". As an unprecedented gesture, eight seats on the floor of the Legislature were occupied by members of the Manitoba Political Equality League, which was chiefly responsible for the victory. Formed four years earlier by prominent Winnipeg men and women, the League drew support from male organizations such as the Grain Growers' Association of Manitoba as well as such groups as the Icelandic Women's Suffrage Association and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Most diligent of the League's members was the remarkable Nellie McClung, novelist, teacher, lecturer, legislator, church and temperance worker and dedicated suffragist. She was 16, with only six years of schooling behind her, when she graduated from Winnipeg Normal School and began to teach in of Women in Canada Manitou, Manitoba, in 1890. Ha…
note: Vol. 4, no. 2; February 1972
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340830
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text