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Heritage Matters 21 1917 1929 1911 1920 1934 1918 1921 1930 • Ontario was the fifth province in Canada to allow women to vote. (The first province was Manitoba). • The Imperial Privy Council of England ruled that women are legally "persons." This reversed a Supreme Court of Canada ruling. Women could now hold seats in the Canadian Senate. • Flora MacDonald Denison, known for her radical views on birth control and women's reproductive rights, became the president of the Canadian Suffrage Association. • Constance Hamilton became the first female member of the Toronto City Council – the first woman in Ontario to hold elected office. • The Dominion Franchise Act disqualified Inuit and "Status Indians" from voting federally, but made an exception for "Status Indian" veterans (previously excluded in 1924). • Canada granted the vote to property-owning women over the age of 21 who were born or naturalized British subjects and who had lived in the country for 12 months. • A limited right to vote in the United Kingdom is extended to women over the age of 30 who owned property. • Agnes Macphail became the first woman elected in Canada as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). Ontario is the first province to elect a woman to the House of Commons. • Cairine Wilson of Ontario became the first female senator in Canada. 1902 • Margaret Haile became the first female candidate to run for legislative office in Canada, being nominated for the 1902 Ontario provincial election. 1. Agnes Macphail. Photo: Yousuf Karsh, Yousuf Karsh fonds, Library and Archives Canada, Accession 1987-054, e010679117 to e010679129. 2. Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Photo: Library and Archives Canada/C-029977. 3. Flora MacDonald Denison, Pres[ident] Canadian Suffrage Association, Women of Protest: Photograph from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.149016 March 13, 2018 4. Nellie McClung. Photo: Nellie McClung (right) with renowned British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in Edmonton, Alberta. Photo with permission of Glenbow Archives (NC-6-1746). 1936 • Barbara Hanley elected as mayor of Webbwood. She is the first woman in Canadian history to be elected as a mayor in a general election.