<P> Women's suffrage in Canada occurred in 1918 . By the close of that year, all the provinces in Canada had granted full suffrage to women . Municipal suffrage was granted in 1884 to property - owning widows and spinsters in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario; in 1886, in the province of New Brunswick, to all property - owning women except those whose husbands were voters; in Nova Scotia, in 1886; and in Prince Edward Island, in 1888, to property - owning widows and spinsters . In 1916, full suffrage was given to women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia . </P> <P> The cause of for women's suffrage began in 1867, Canadian Confederation year, when Dr. Emily Stowe came to Toronto to practise medicine . She was the first, and for many years the sole woman physician in Canada . Stowe, vitally interested in all matters relating to women, at once came before the public as a lecturer upon topics then somewhat new, "Woman's Sphere" and "Women in the Professions," being her subjects . She lectured not only in Toronto, but, under the auspices of various Mechanics' Institutes, in Ottawa, Whitby, and Bradford . After attending a meeting of the American Society for the Advancement of Women, in Cleveland in 1877, and meeting many women of the United States, Stowe, on returning home, felt that the time had arrived for some similar union among Canadian women . Talking it over with her friend, Helen Archibald, they decided that it would not be politic to attempt at once a suffrage association but, in November 1877, organized what was known as "The Toronto Woman's Literary Club". </P>

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