List of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes

This is a list of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes who were born in Canada or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Suffragists and suffragettes

• Edith Archibald (1854–1936) – writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax
• Francis Marion Beynon (1884–1951) – Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist
• Laura Borden (1861–1940) – wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada
• Henrietta Muir Edwards (1849–1931) – women's rights activist and reformer
• Helena Gutteridge (1879–1960) – first woman elected to city council in Vancouver
• Gertrude Harding (1889–1977) – one of the highest-ranking and longest-lasting members of the Women's Social and Political Union
• Lily Laverock (1880–1969) – journalist, impresario and suffragist
• Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator and social activist
• Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia
• Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – politician, author, social activist, member of The Famous Five
• Sarah Galt Elwood McKee (1842–1934) – social reformer and temperance leader
• Louise McKinney (1868–1931) – politician, women's rights activist, Alberta legislature
• Emily Murphy (1868–1933) – women's rights activist, jurist, author ^[1]
• Irene Parlby (1868–1965) – women's farm leader, activist, politician
• Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – educator and member of the executive of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
• Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician
• Emily Stowe (1831–1903) – doctor, campaigned for the country's first medical college for women
• Jennie Fowler Willing (1834–1916) – educator, author, preacher, social reformer, suffragist
• Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896–1981) – leader of the Quebec suffragist movement ^[2]

See also

• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• Timeline of women's suffrage

References

1. "Emily Murphy". Archives of Women's Political Communication. Iowa State University . Retrieved September 23, 2024.
2. "Thérèse Casgrain National Historic Person (1896-1981)". Parks Canada . Retrieved September 23, 2024.