21 ч 34 мин, 1 янв 1883 г. - Toronto Women's Literacy Club

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After members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) realized that the temperance campaign alone would not convince the government to force prohibition. In order to truly enforce prohibition across the country, the women would need the right to vote or women's suffrage.

The WCTU was not the only organization pushing for women's suffrage. In 1877 the Toronto Women's Literacy Club (TWLC) was formed by Dr. Emily Stowe. To strangers, the organization was a women's book club but secretly, the organization was Canada's first women's suffrage organization. In 1883, the TWLC changed its name to the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, Canada's first national suffrage organization. Women across the country actively campaigned for provincial and federal support for women's right to vote. However, their campaigns were often met with polite rejection. But in 1884, widows and older, unmarried women who owned property on the right to vote in municipal elections in Ontario. Eventually, the federal government that each province would determine which women would be eligible to vote in federal, provincial and municipal elections. During the 1890s, other provinces followed suit to Ontario and granted municipal voting rights to widows, unmarried women, and women who owned property.