Since the 1870s, Canadian women had been fighting for suffrage- the right to vote. However, at that time, a lot of men even the premier of Manitoba Rodmond Roblin didn't agree that women can have the rights to vote. In 1916, Women in Canada got the right which allowed them to vote in provincial election by the new Manitoba government. Later in 1916, Saskatchewan and Alberta also gave women the right to vote in provincial election. After the Ontario and British Columbia followed those examples in 1917, Canadian government passed a law that allowed women who were British subjects over the age of 21 to vote- if they were the wife, mother, sister, or daughter of a man serving overseas. Because the prime minister of Canada Bordon thought that these
