List of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes

Edith Archibald (1854–1936) – writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax
Francis Marion Beynon (1884–1951) – Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist
Laura Borden (1861–1940) – wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada
Henrietta Muir Edwards (1849–1931) – women's rights activist and reformer
Henry Robert Emmerson (1853–1914) – Premier of New Brunswick and advocate of women's suffrage^[1]
Helena Gutteridge (1879–1960) – first woman elected to city council in Vancouver
Gertrude Harding (1889–1977) – one of the highest-ranking and longest-lasting members of the Women's Social and Political Union
Lily Laverock (1880–1969) – journalist, impresario and suffragist
Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator and social activist
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia
Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – politician, author, social activist, member of The Famous Five
Sarah Galt Elwood McKee (1842–1934) – social reformer and temperance leader
Louise McKinney (1868–1931) – politician, women's rights activist, Alberta legislature
Emily Murphy (1868–1933) – women's rights activist, jurist, author^[2]
Irene Parlby (1868–1965) – women's farm leader, activist, politician
Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – educator and member of the executive of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician
Emily Stowe (1831–1903) – doctor, campaigned for the country's first medical college for women
Jennie Fowler Willing (1834–1916) – educator, author, preacher, social reformer, suffragist
Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896–1981) – leader of the Quebec suffragist movement^[3]

List of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes

Suffragists and suffragettes

See also

References

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