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Our Voices Must Be Heard

Women and the Vote in Ontario

Tarah Brookfield author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:1st Nov '18

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Our Voices Must Be Heard examines the ideals and failings of Ontario’s suffrage history, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class.

In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women regained voting rights in Ontario. Our Voices Must Be Heard explores Ontario’s suffrage history, examining its ideals and failings, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class. It looks at how and why suffragists from around the province joined an international movement they called “the great cause.”

This is the second volume in the seven-part Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy series.

  • Winner of Alison Prentice Award for Best Book in Ontario Women's and Gender History, Ontario Historical Society 2018 (Canada)

ISBN: 9780774860192

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

256 pages