Quebec women 75 years ago win the right-to-vote

Women in Quebec could not vote until April 25, 1940 and seventy-five years after Quebec women won the right to vote — a right opposed by some such as politician Henri Bourassa who once warned it would turn women into “veritable women-men” — the province has renamed its equality prize after suffrage movement leader Thérèse Casgrain

On April 25, 1940, Bill 18 was passed at Quebec’s National Assembly, putting an end to electoral discrimination against women.

Women won the right to vote in Canadian federal elections in 1918, but Quebec women had no electoral rights in the province until 22 years later. It was the last province in Canada to pass such a bill.

In 1961Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, became the first female MNA to be elected.

“Those suffragettes would not be proud to see that “equality between men and women is still not here.” Québec solidaire MNA Manon Massé

Thérèse Casgrain and the rights of women.

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