Torontoist » Suffrage http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All Haile Ontario’s First Female MPP Candidate Ontario Socialist League election platform, 1902.

The result fails to impress on first glance: Margaret Haile, Ontario Socialist League candidate in a Toronto riding, 74 votes. Sounds like the low end of the typical ballot range for a fringe candidate in a provincial election. But it’s the circumstances that make Haile stand out: the year was 1902, and women wouldn’t be [...]

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Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Adopting traditionally male roles during the war, women learn to shoot, Long Branch camp, 1915. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 981. At the turn of the twentieth century, a [...]

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