Suffrage Campaigns & Enfranchisement With Special Reference to Canada: Extended Bibliography

Canada

Suffrage generally

Bacchi, Carol Lee. “Divided Allegiance: The Response of Farm and Labour Women to Suffrage,” in L. Kealey, ed., A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1979: 89-108.

Bacchi, Carol Lee. Liberation Deferred?: The ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983.

Bacchi-Ferraro, Carol Lee. “The Ideas of the Canadian Suffragists, 1890-1920.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1970.

Backhouse, Constance and Daniel H. Flaherty, eds. Challenging Times: The Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.

Bassett, Isabel. The Parlour Rebellion: Profiles in the Struggle for Women’s Rights. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975.

Benedictsson, Margrét. “Women’s Rights” and “Women’s Equal Rights (1898).” In Documenting First Wave Feminisms, Volume II: Canada – National and Transnational Contexts. Ed. Nancy M. Forestell and Maureen Moynagh. 124-128. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Bennett, Paul. “The Canadian Women’s Movement, 1880-1920s: A Struggle for Political Rights or Social Reform?” In Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations in Canadian History. Ed. Paul W. Bennett and Cornelius Jaenen, 376-405. Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall, 1986.

Brandt, Gail Cuthbert, Naomi Black, Paula Bourne, and Magda Fahrni. Canadian Women: A History. 1996; Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd., 2011.

Buchanan, Roberta. The Suffragettes : a talk given at the Women's Centre, St. John's, on March 8th 1975, International Women's Day. S.l.: s.n., 1975.

Cameron, Barbara P. “Liberalism and the Early Organization of Women in English Canada, 1850-1920." PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1986.

Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Towards Equality for Women. Ottawa: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1979.

Canada, Library of Parliament. Women’s Right to Vote in Canada. Ottawa: The Branch, 1980.

Canada, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, and Public Works & Government Services Canada. A History of the Vote in Canada. Ottawa: Public Works & Government Services Canada, 1997.

Canadian Suffrage Association. Report of Interview with the Right Honorable R. L. Borden, Prime Minister of Canada. Toronto: Canadian Suffrage Association, 1912.

Canadian Women’s Suffrage Association. Constitution and rules of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association: inaugurated at a public conversazione held in the city council chamber of Toronto on 9th March, 1883. Toronto: S.n., 1883.

Carter, Sarah. Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Clarke, Mary Eileen. "Women Suffrage and the Road to Feminism: the Canadian Story." B.A. Honours thesis, Mount Allison University, 1975.

Cleverdon, Catherine Lyle. The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950.

Cook, Ramsay and Wendy Mitchinson, ed. The Proper Sphere: Woman’s Place in Canadian Society. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press.

Denison, Flora MacDonald. “Report on Attendance at the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906).” In Documenting First Wave Feminisms, Volume II: Canada – National and Transnational Contexts. Ed. Nancy M. Forestell and Maureen Moynagh. 128-133. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Denison, Flora MacDonald. Woman Suffrage in Canada. Toronto: Toronto Suffrage Association, 1912.

Dobrowolsky, Alexandra Z. "Promises Unfulfilled: Women and the Theory and Practice of Representative Democracy in Canada." MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1990.

Dorland, Michael, and Maurice Rene Charland. Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Edwards, Henrietta Muir. Legal status of Canadian women, as shown by extracts from dominion and provincial laws relating to marriage, property, dower, divorce, descent of land, franchise, crime and other subjects. Calgary : National Council of Women of Canada, 1908.

Errington, Jane.  “Pioneers and Suffragists.”  Changing Patterns: Women in Canada.  2nd ed.  Ed. Sandra Burt, Lorraine Code and Lindsay Dorney.  59-91. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993. 

Fiamengo, Janice Anne. The Woman's Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Forbes, Ernest. “The Ideas of Carol Bacchi and the Suffragists of Halifax: A Review Essay on Liberation Deferred? The Ideas of the English Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918.” Atlantis 10.2 (1985): 119-26.

Forestell, Nancy and Moynagh, Maureen, eds. Documenting First Wave Feminisms, Vol. I: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Forestell, Nancy and Moynagh, Maureen, eds. Documenting First Wave Feminisms, Vol. II: Canada – National and Transnational Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Forestell, Nancy. "Mrs. Canada Goes Global: Canadian First Wave Feminism Revisited." Resources for Feminist Research 32.3-4 (2007): 193.

Forster, Merna. One Hundred Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces. Toronto: Dundurn, 2004.

Freigang, Margo. "Re-Inventing Radical: Interpreting Early Twentieth Century Canadian Feminism." MA Thesis, Carleton University, 2001.

Garner, John. The Franchise and Politics in British North America, 1755-1867. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969.

Gaudet, Lisa Shelly. "The Empire is Woman's Sphere: Organized Female Imperialism in Canada, 1880s--1920s." PhD dissertation, Carleton University, 2001.

Geller, Gloria. “The Wartime Elections Act of 1917 and the Canadian Women’s Movement.” Atlantis 2.1 (1976): 88-106.

Gorham, Deborah. "The Canadian Suffragists." In Women in the Canadian Mosaic, ed. Gwen Matheson, 25-56. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1976.

Gorham, Deborah. “English Militancy and the Canadian Suffrage Movement.” Atlantis 1.1(Fall 1975): 83-112.

Gorham, Deborah. "Flora MacDonald Denison: Canadian Feminist." In A Not Unreasonable Claim, ed. Linda Kealey, 47-70. Toronto: Women's Press, 1979.

Gorham, Deborah. "Singing up the Hill." Canadian Dimension 10 (June 1975): 2.6-38.

Green, Joyce, et al. Self-Determination, Citizenship, and Federalism Indigenous and Canadian Palimpsest. Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2003.

Howe, Kathryn. ““A Federation of Women”: The Canadian Suffrage Movement in International Perspective, 1870-1920.” Honours BA Thesis, Unviersity of New Brunswick, 2004.

Kealey, Linda. ed., A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1979.

Kealey, Linda and Joan Sangster, eds. Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Kinahan, Anne-Marie. ""A Splendid Army of Organized Womanhood" Gender, Communication and the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1918." PhD Dissertation. Carleton University, 2005.

Kinahan, Anne-Marie. "Transcendent Citizenship: Suffrage, the National Council of Women of Canada, and the Politics of Organized Womanhood." Journal of Canadian Studies 42.3 (2008): 5-27.

Kitossa, Tamari. “Criticism, Reconstruction and African-Centred Feminist Historiography.” Ed. Njoki Nathani Wane, Erica Lawson, and Katerina Deliovsky. 85-116. Back to the Drawing Board: African-Canadian Feminisms. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2002.

Kome, Penney. Women of Influence: Canadian Women and Politics. Toronto: Doubleday, 1985.

Lamoureux, Diane. Citoyennes? Femmes, Droit de Vote et Démocratie. Montréal: Remue-ménage, 1989.

Lamoureux, Diane and Jacinthe Michaud. “Les parlementaires canadiens et le suffrage féminin: un aperçu des débates.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. 21, 2 (June 1988): 319-329.

Lang, Marjory. Women Who Made the News: Female Journalists in Canada, 1880-1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.

Leathes, Sonia. What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished. Toronto: Equal Franchise League, 1911 or 1912.

Leathes, Sonia. Where and How May Canadian Women Vote. Toronto: Equal Franchise League, 1911.

Liberal and Conservative Party of Canada. A Word to the Woman Voter. Ottawa: Liberal and Conservative Party, Publicity Bureau, 1921.

Liberal Party of Canada. Liberal Women and Success: The Swing to Victory. Ottawa: National Liberal Party, 1926.

Light, Beth and Joy Parr. Canadian Women on the Move 1867-1920. Toronto: OISE, 1983.

Lish, Debra E. “An uphill Struggle: The Suffrage Movement in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada.” MA Thesis, University of Idaho, 1994.

Luke, E. M.  “Woman suffrage in Canada.” Canadian Magazine 5 (May–October 1895): 328–36. 

Lund, Anna Cecile Scantland. “Canada: The Franchise and Universal Suffrage.” MA Thesis, California State University, 1983.

McClung, Nellie. In Times Like These. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1915.

MacNaghten, Prof. R. E. A Plea for Woman Suffrage in Canada. Canadian Magazine 29 (June 1907): 146-152.

Mahood, Sally. “The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Canada and Saskatchewan.” In Women Unite!: An Anthology of the Canadian Women’s Movement. Toronto: Canadian Women’s Educational Press, 1972, 21-30.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “The WCTU: For God and Home and Native Land”. In A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s. ed. Linda Kealey. Toronto: Women’s Pess, 1979, 151-167.

Newton, Janice. “”Descent from the Pedestal”: Women’s Suffrage and the Left.” In The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918. Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995, 136-149.

Newton, Janice. ""Enough of Exclusive Masculine Thinking!": The Feminist Challenge to the Early Canadian Left, 1900--1918." PhD dissertation, York University, 1987.

Newton, Janice. The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918. Montreal; Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.

Pederson, Diana. Changing Women, Changing History: A Bibliography of the History of Women in Canada. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996.

Pickles, Katie. Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002.

Plumptre, Adelaide M. “Some Thoughts on the Suffrage in Canada.” In The New Era in Canada: Essays Dealing with the Upbuilding of the Canadian Commonwealth. Londond: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1917.

Prentice, Alison et al. Canadian Women: A History. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Rasmussen, Linda, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage and Anne Wheeler, eds. A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women. Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1976.

Ray, Janet. Towards Women’s Rights. Toronto: Grolier, 1981.

Reid, Vanessa M. "Ladies in the House: Gender, Space and the Parlours of Parliament in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada." ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1997.

Ridley, Hilda M. Women Suffrage in Canada. N.P., 1918.

Scantland, Anna Cecile. Canada, the British North America Act, 1867: The Franchise and Japanese, Chinese, East Indian and Native Indian Canadians, 1867-1949 : A Research Project. Vancouver: Parallel Publishers, 1983

Scantland, Anna Cecile. Canada, the Franchise, and Universal Suffrage. Toronto: ACCO Press, 1984.

Shattuck, Ciara A. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: Qualified Gains. Winnipeg: Manitoba Legislative Assembly, Legislative Internship Program, 2002.

Smith, Mary Ellen Spear. Is it Just? Toronto: William Briggs, 1911.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Canadian Feminism in the 1920s: The Case of Nellie McClung." Journal of Canadian Studies 12 (Summer 1977): 58-68.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1929. Ottawa: National Museum, 1976.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Print and the Promotion of Women’s Suffrage.” In History of the Book in Canada, Volume II 1840-1918. Ed. Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart-Fleming, and Fiona A. Black. 349-351.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Taking Stock of Suffragists: Personal Reflections on Feminist Appraisals.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada 21.2 (2010): 76-89.

Thieme, Katja. Language and Social Change: The Canadian Movement for Women’s Suffrage, 1880-1918. Dissertation, UBC, 2007.

Thieme, Katja, “Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Reading Francis Marion Beynon’s “The Country Homemakers” and a Public Culture for Women.” In Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives. Ed. Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2012, 215-232.

Thieme, Katja. "Uptake and Genre: The Canadian Reception of Suffrage Militancy." Women's Studies International Forum 29.3 (2006): 279-88.

Tremblay, Manon et Sarah Andrew. «Les Femmes Nommées Ministres au Canada Pendant la Période 1921-2007 : La Loi de la Disparité Progressive est-elle Dépassée?» Recherches Féministes 23.1 (2010) : 143-163.

Trimble, Linda, Jane Arscott, and Manon Tremblay, eds. Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013.

Women's Enfranchisement Association of Canada, and Early Canadiana Online Ebook Collection. Constitution and by-Laws of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of Canada: Organized as C.W.S.A. March, 1883 ; Re-Organized as W.E.A.C. February, 1889. Toronto?:, 1889.