03-07-2003, 11:23 PM
And as Shadow pointed out, that is 7 years ahead of the Commonwealth's North American chapter.
That is not what I said.
I said it was 1927 before women were 'persons' in Canada (and my cross-checking now shows that I got the date wrong). We got the vote earlier than that. Provincially, the dates ranged from 1916 to 1940. Federally, it was 1920, the same year as the U.S.A. and two years after Britain.
The persons issue started with the âFamous Fiveâ Alberta women who fought to have women constitutionally declared âpersonsâ and therefore eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate. That came in 1929.
But women got the vote in New Zealand long before that - 1893, in fact. Perhaps WarBlade does have some history to be proud of in that respect?
As for female heads of state, this is what I found.
http://womenshistory.about.combrary/wee...y/aa010128a.htm
That is not what I said.
I said it was 1927 before women were 'persons' in Canada (and my cross-checking now shows that I got the date wrong). We got the vote earlier than that. Provincially, the dates ranged from 1916 to 1940. Federally, it was 1920, the same year as the U.S.A. and two years after Britain.
The persons issue started with the âFamous Fiveâ Alberta women who fought to have women constitutionally declared âpersonsâ and therefore eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate. That came in 1929.
But women got the vote in New Zealand long before that - 1893, in fact. Perhaps WarBlade does have some history to be proud of in that respect?
As for female heads of state, this is what I found.
http://womenshistory.about.combrary/wee...y/aa010128a.htm
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake