Women and the War Effort Look at the following primary sources and infer – what do they tell us about what women did in the First World War? Identify an activity or a role. Interpret – categorize each source Shows women doing things they had traditionally done before the war Shows women doing NEW things – a result of the war Shows women doing familiar things but now changed by the requirements of the war

Before 1916, women could not vote in Canadian elections

How does this source help us to understand attitudes towards woman and politics at the time?

Bit by bit, suffrage was achieved 1916 – Manitoba, Sask, and Alta became the first provinces to recognize women’s right to vote in provincial elections In 1917, Sir Robert Borden proposed, in the Wartime Elections Act, that wives, mothers, sisters, daughters of soldiers should be allowed to vote in the federal election of 1917. WHY?