By guest columnist Matthew Shoemaker: Today in Canada’s Political History: Voting rights for women recognized in Ontario | National Newswatch
, mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, as a guest columnist. Mayor Shoemaker, who is also a lawyer with the Wishart Law Firm, reached out to Art’s History so we might honour the proud role a past citizen of his community played in the long journey to achieving voting rights for women in Canada’s largest province. Over to you Your Worship.was given royal ascent in Ontario, recognizing women’s right to vote in municipal and provincial elections.
It was not until the ascension of Sir William H. Hearst, the MPP for Sault Ste. Marie, to the office of Premier of Ontario in 1914 that the suffrage movement took root. Upon ascending to the Premiership, Hearst, a Conservative, approached the issue cautiously, but without the ideological opposition of his predecessors.
The splendid part the women of this country … have played in this war [World War I] has changed the attitude of the public on this question. The attitude they have taken, the splendid sacrifices they have made, have broken down the prejudice that existed in the minds of men and many women as well.The Government endorses the principle of the bill now before the House and … I call upon my supporters to vote in its favour.
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