Attachment 1 - Historical Significance Worksheet: Women S Rights in Canada 1916-1939

Attachment - Historical Significance Worksheet: Women’s Rights In Canada 1916-1939

For each of the three historical events, use evidence from your information sheets and your understanding of each event to answer the questions about historical significance. When you have completed the chart sections, decide what was the most historically significant event that led to improved women’s rights during the Interwar period (1916-1939)?

Event #1: In 1916 Manitoba became the first province to give women the right to vote and hold provincial office, Saskatchewan was next in 1916, and British Columbia and Ontario extended the franchise in 1917.

Prominence at the time -Immediate recognition: Was it noticed at the time as having importance?

Consequences -Magnitude of impact: How deeply felt or profound was the impact? Did it result in dramatic or minor changes? -Scope of impact: How widespread was the impact? Were many people or geographical areas affected? -Lasting nature of impact: How long lasting were the effects? Were the effects short-lived? Did the event change the direction of subsequent events (was it a turning point)? Subsequent profile: -Remembered: Has it been memorialized in popular culture? Do historians focus on it as an important event? Has it achieved iconic status within a group or society? -Revealing: Has it contributed to our understanding of present life? Or of some aspect of the past?

Event #2: In 1918 the Canada Elections Act gave all women over 21 the federal vote.

Consequences -Magnitude of impact: How deeply felt or profound was the impact? Did it result in dramatic or minor changes? -Scope of impact: How widespread was the impact? Were many people or geographical areas affected? -Lasting nature of impact: How long lasting were the effects? Were the effects short-lived? Did the event change the direction of subsequent events (was it a turning point)?

(more room on next page) Subsequent profile: -Remembered: Has it been memorialized in popular culture? Do historians focus on it as an important event? Has it achieved iconic status within a group or society? -Revealing: Has it contributed to our understanding of present life? Or of some aspect of the past?

Event #3: In 1929 the British Privy Council reversed the Canadian Supreme Court's 'Persons' Case decision and ruled that women in Canada women were eligible to become Members of the Senate of Canada.

Consequences -Magnitude of impact: How deeply felt or profound was the impact? Did it result in dramatic or minor changes? -Scope of impact: How widespread was the impact? Were many people or geographical areas affected? -Lasting nature of impact: How long lasting were the effects? Were the effects short-lived? Did the event change the direction of subsequent events?

Subsequent profile: -Remembered: Has it been memorialized in popular culture? Do historians focus on it as an important event? Has it achieved iconic status within a group or society? -Revealing: Has it contributed to our understanding of present life? Or of some aspect of the past?