1. HELLO AGAIN RETURNING WORK REVIEW OF TERM 2 SO FAR
WHAT’s COMING UP THIS TERM

2. WOMEN and GIRLS: INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT
Key Concept: Change
Related Concepts: Equity, power, identity
GC: Fairness~Development
S of I: Activism Changes Constructions of Reality
Project: Letter or Poster for
Historica Contest

3. OUTLINE A national historical view: A global current view:
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Women’s Suffrage in Canadian History
KEY PERSONS AND EVENTS
Final Project is to enter into the Historica Contest
A global current view:
Women and Girls today
KEY ISSUES AROUND THE WORLD
IB: Final Project is to do an e-assessment style assignment
IMM: Final Project is to do an in-class assignment

4. NATIONAL HISTORICAL VIEW
2016 marks the 100 anniversary of the start of women’s suffrage in Canada.
This change in democracy was the single largest alteration to the system – half of the population was and remains female, and so adding this many voices to the decision-making had a profound impact on our country.

5. Some quotes … 1880’s:
Federal Electoral Franchise Act (1885) stated that “those permitted to vote in federal elections are male persons”
“The following shall not be entitled to be registered as electors … lunatics, idiots, and persons of unsound mind.” Manitoba Elections Act 1888 … and women could not vote.
1895 opponents of the suffrage movement stated that women’s “proper sphere is in the home.”

6. Some Quotes … 1900’s
January – Conservative Premier states “most women don’t want to vote”
“Women risk becoming ‘public women’ veritable women-men, hybrids that would destroy women-mothers and women- women” H. Bourassa, anti-suffragist, Politian, and found of the Devoir (1915)
October 18, 1929 – women are declared “persons” in Canadian Law (The Canadian supreme court denied women this in 1928, but the women took it higher to the British Privy Council to have it reversed in 1929 and was called the ‘Persons Act’)
Before 1929 women are “persons in matters of pains and penalties, but are not persons in matters of rights and privileges.”

7. “Persons Act”
Image of document from 1928:
1929 over-turning the jugement :
Radio: women-become-persons
Video : cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/pd-jp/index-en.html
 October 18 is “Persons Day”

9. Quotes post 1930 Dominion Franchise Act (1934)
“14.(2) The following persons are disqualified from voting at an election and incapable of being registered as electors and shall not vote nor be so registered:
(e) every Indian, as defined in the Indian Act, ordinarily resident on a reserve, unless,
  Racial laws prohibited many from voting, especially Asian Canadians. By 1948 race could not be grounds for excluding people from the right to vote.

10. Reading Assignment Read the provided text and answer the questions
Make sure to use the provided definitions to key words so that you better understand the reading
We will discuss these next class
Expect a quiz on the reading

11. Answer Sources:
Go to: Educational Guide: Women’s Suffrage in Canada es/108/Womens_Suffrage.pdf Go to: Women’s Suffrage Canada collection/womens-suffrage-in-canada/

12. TAKING UP Q Answers

13. ACTIVITY: WRITING A TEXTBOOK
Your writer group has been assigned a region.
Create ONE electronic “the road to suffrage” textbook page:
Provide answers in your TEXTBOOK page to:
Timeline: events, organizations, and individuals (2 of each)
Provide a short description of each in the timeline
- What were the difficulties faced in your region?
Who was excluded at each stage?
Consider how your region was different from the others and why
Provide 3 images
Go to “Women’s Suffrage Collection
suffrage-in-canada/

14. Share Textbook Page with class

15. Debate: what did it? 5 groups:
- WWI, Activist Individuals, Activist Organizations, Politicians, Time, Neutral and Undecided
- Each side presents position
- Time to switch positions as debate progresses
- Final choice, final count

16. GLOBAL CURRENT VIEW International Issues and Norms Poverty Violence
Freedoms
Equality

17. TUG: we are or not, here and there?
Canada:
List of EQUALITIES vs. INEQUALITIES
NCWC:
LEAF:
CWF: fondation-canadienne-des-femmes/?gclid=CJyTo_29utACFZtMDQodWK0L6A
CBC : record-on-women
Internationally:
rights-law-failed-women/
Be ready to share them on the board.