Why did Canada give blacks the right to vote?

Answer 1

Women of Manitoba province were the first ones to get full right to vote in January, 1916. They were followed by Saskatchewan and Alberta in the same year and British Columbia and Ontario in 1917. Quebec women fared the worst in gaining suffrage and were given the right to vote in 1940.

Answer 2

The idea that anyone should be able to vote or have a say in the rules under which they live is a very recent one. The earliest democracies, dating back over 2,500yrs limited voting to only those powerful enough to hold on to a high position in society. Over the many centuries since then little changed, even those systems that claimed all citizens could vote did not allow most people to vote.

In British and Canadian traditions most people did not have the vote. There were always some restrictions, such as land ownership, which would exclude many people including women.

But with the expansion of the British Empire ideas that all people were indeed people and had God given rights resulted in many previously disenfranchised groups being given status and power previously reserved for the few.

Including in those groups were women, one of the last groups to be seen as equals. Which is an idea that is now waning. Today Women in Canada are increasingly subjected to ideas that they are equal but different, ideas that suggest they deserve special respect, that they are equal but not as equal as others.

The struggle for power never ends.

Answer 3

because they wanted woman to have the same chance to pick their govermnent. They didn't think it was fair to have just men do the voting.

Answer 4

Because they're people who deserve the right to vote.