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Heritage Matters 22 1947 1948 1957 1951 1954 • The Citizenship Act extended the right to vote federally and provincially to Chinese-Canadian and South Asian-Canadian men and women. Japanese Canadians and all Indigenous peoples remain excluded until 1948. • Canada votes in favour of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights which stated that elections "shall be by universal and equal suffrage." • Ellen Fairclough was the first woman to serve in the Canadian cabinet as the Secretary of State. • Charlotte Whitton was elected as the first female mayor of a major city in Canada (Ottawa). • Indigenous women acquired the right to hold office on reserves. • Indigenous women and men ("Status Indians") vote in Ontario provincial elections for the first time. • Elsie Knott became the first elected female chief of a First Nation (Curve Lake, Ontario). "Mayor Oliver: Wonder who told them we didn't encourage the suffragette movement in Toronto?", [photograph], ca. 1910, Newton McConnell fonds, C 301-0-0-0-996, Archives of Ontario.