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Female officers were allowed the right to serve along side with the canadian medical corps in 1914-1918
in 1914-1918 female officers were allowed the right to serve alongside the Canadian medical corps. nurses had blue dresses and white veils since having blue dresses and white veils they developed a nick name and they were nicknamed the "bluebirds". There were More than 2,800 women served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps but Over 40 nurses lost their lives while in service, and of this number between 20 and 30 were killed by enemy action in the First World War. -
Women were allowed to vote under certain circumstances
Canadian women whose husbands, sons and brothers served in the war voted for the first time. Women were also allowed to vote if they met an exception for military personnel, but Bluebirds were the first women to vote legally in a Canadian federal election -
Alberta allowing minimum wage for women 1917
in 1917 Alberta’s Factory Act was passed . It included “provision of a minimum wage of $1.50 per shift for all adults and $1.00 per shift for all apprentices in any factory, shop or office building,” making Alberta the first province to enact minimum wage legislation. When the province did establish a minimum wage for women workers in 1920, it carefully excluded domestic workers and farm workers, thus leaving a substantial group of women without a minimum wage guarantee. -
Louise McKinney became the first women in the British Empire to be elected to a provincial legislature.
Louise McKinney ran as a Non-Partisan League (NPL) candidate in the first election in which Canadian or British women could run for office or vote. She ran for the Non-Partisan League because she believed liquor and brewing companies influenced the major political parties through their donations. She won a seat in the election, as did Nursing Sister Roberta MacAdams, but because she was sworn into the Alberta Legislature before Sister MacAdams, Louise has the distinction of being the first -
Certain women were allowed to to vote in government elections
it started with The Woman’s Party. The organization was established to continue the fight for women’s rights after the battle for suffrage concluded. Its reform advocacy included equal pay for equal work and equal parental rights.April 26 1918 Nova Scotia women won the rights to vote and to hold provincial office. But However, there is no evidence of women voting in Upper Canada (now Ontario), which followed the tradition of English common law in which women did not exercise the franchise. -
Agnes Macphail was the first women voted into house of commons
Macphail left home to attend the Owen Sound Collegiate School, followed by the Normal School for teachers in Stratford, Ontario. She joined local farming organisations and the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO), a farmers’ political, educational and social organisation that had formed in 1914, the U.F.O won an provincial election in 1919 and then two years later Macphail was nominated to represent South-East Grey County in the House of Commons as a member of the Progressive Party. -
Cecile Eustace, the first women to participate in the olympics for canada
Cecil Smith became Canada’s first female Olympian
At 15 years old, she competed in two figure skating events in Chamonix. She placed sixth in women’s singles and seventh in pairs with partner Melville Rogers. -
The persons case
In May 1918, the majority of Canadian women over the age of 21 became eligible to vote in federal elections. The following year, they received the right to run for office in the House of Commons. In 1921, Agnes Macphail became the first woman elected to the House of Commons. However, the Senate was still closed to women. This was because of the way the Canadian government interpreted Section 24 of the Constitution Act, 1867. -
The famous five petition
Five different governments suggested that although they would like to appoint a woman to the Senate, Section 24 of the BNA Act made it impossible.In 1923, Prime Minister Mackenzie King asked Senator Archibald McCoig to propose an amendment to the Act; but the proposal was never made. August 1927, Emily Murphy invited four prominent women activists Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards to her home. Her plan was to send a petition to the Canadian government. -
Famous five
the Famous Five signed the letter. The petition asked that the Supreme Court rule on the following two questions.1. Is power vested in the Governor-General in Council of Canada, or the Parliament of Canada, or either of them, to appoint a female to the Senate of Canada 2. Is it constitutionally possible for the Parliament of Canada under the provisions of the British North America Act, or otherwise, to make provision for the appointment of a female to the Senate of Canada? -
The persons case
The Persons Case was a constitutional ruling that established the right of women to be appointed to the Senate. The case was initiated by the Famous Five, a group of prominent women activists. In 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not “persons” according to the British North America Act. The Persons Case enabled women to work for change in both the House of Commons and the Senate. It also meant that women cant be denied rights based on a narrow interpretation of the law.