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Suffrage in Nova Scotia: Making our Mark

To the Government and Legislature of the Province
of Nova Scotia

      We whose names are hereto subscribed, being British subjects of the full age of twenty one years and upwards, and having lived in the province of Nova Scotia one year and upwards, hereby pray that you will introduce and pass at the next session of the Legislature an acting granting the provincial franchaise to women upon the same terms as those upon which it is granted to men, thus placing them upon a level with the women of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.

No. Name Address Occupation view
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M.A. Blinkhorn Canso Clerk view original petition
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Mrs. Annie Hurst Canso Housewife view original petition
13
Mrs. Thomas Kennedy Canso Housewife view original petition
14
Mrs. Andrew Armstrong Canso Housewife view original petition
15
Mrs. Fred. Schrader Canso Housewife view original petition
16
Mrs. W. Wilmas Canso Housewife view original petition
17
Sophia Power Canso Housewife view original petition
18
Mrs. Maude Roberts Canso Housewife view original petition
19
Mrs. James Smith Canso Housewife view original petition
20
Mrs. William Schrader Canso Housewife view original petition
21
Edward Jamieson Canso view original petition
22
Mrs. Edward Jamieson Canso view original petition
23
Mrs. Rupert Swain Canso view original petition
24
Mrs. James R. Lumsden Canso view original petition
26
Mrs. Harvey Canso Housekeeper view original petition
27
H.S. Hart Canso Merchant view original petition
28
L.G. Bishop Canso Stenographer view original petition
29
E.S.H. Smiley Canso Stenographer view original petition
1
Bessie Dawson Canso view original petition
2
Laura MacLeod Canso Housewife view original petition
3
Elizabeth Sutherland Canso Housewife view original petition
4
Florence Ryan Canso Housewife view original petition
5
A.I. Powell Canso Housewife view original petition
6
J. Powell Canso Tailor view original petition
7
Edith Dort Canso Housewife view original petition
8
Margery Hadley Canso Housewife view original petition
9
Marie L. DesBarres Canso Typewriter view original petition
10
C.M. Hart Canso Housewife view original petition
11
Alfred H. Hart Canso Merchant view original petition
12
Mrs. A. MacDonald Canso Housewife view original petition
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