Securing The Vote for Women in Nova Scotia

Halifax, Nova Scotia
April 26, 1918

The effects of Manitoba's decision to grant women the vote have rippled all the way to the East.

The Nova Scotia Franchise Act gives women the right to vote in Nova Scotia's provincial elections.

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Read the Nova Scotia Franchise Act, S.N. 1918, c.2

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