Women from Québec Obtain the Vote

Québec City
1940

Québec becomes the last existing province to make it legal for women - excluding those from a racial minority already banned from voting in other provinces - to vote and run for office by signing the Act Granting to Women the Right to Vote and to be Eligible as Candidates.

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See:
Act Granting to Women the Right to Vote and to be Eligible as Candidates, S.Q. 1940,c.7