Nova Scotia, Canada, Petitions in Favour of Female Suffrage, 1918

Source Information

Nova Scotia Archives

Ancestry.com. Nova Scotia, Canada, Petitions in Favour of Female Suffrage, 1918 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019.

Original data: Nova Scotia Archives. Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: 2019. RG 5, Series P, Volume 22, https://novascotia.ca/archives/suffrage.

About Nova Scotia, Canada, Petitions in Favour of Female Suffrage, 1918

This collection includes first time voter registration requests for Nova Scotia in 1918. Many of the individuals requesting to be added to the voter rolls were women. On April 26, 1918 legislation was passed granting women in Nova Scotia the right to vote.

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