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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
1
Mrs. Mary E. Campbell Centre St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
2
Mrs. Pearl Smith Centre St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
4
Mrs. Lillian White Centre St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
5
Mrs. Jean McLellan Brunswick St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
6
Mrs. M. F. Johnstone Brunswick St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
7
Miss Florence Smith Centre St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
9
Mrs. J. T. Ripley Wood St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
10
Mrs. B. M. Ripley Centre St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
12
Mrs. J. S. Weatherbe Lyman St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
13
Mrs. C. S. Weatherbe Lyman St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
15
Mrs. Edgar Blair Alice St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
18
Mrs. Effie Phinney Prince St., Truro Housekeeper view original petition
5
Sarah T Bennett Windsor Housekeeper view original petition
12
Margaret  Bennett Newport Housekeeper view original petition
Annie A. Smith Housekeeper view original petition
1
Mrs. Harriot  Reid King Street, Windsor Housekeeper view original petition
8
Mrs. E. B. McPherson Grey Street, Windsor Housekeeper view original petition
1
Helen M. Benett Grey Street, Windsor Housekeeper view original petition
6
Lizzia J. Jardis O'Brien Street, Windsor Housekeeper view original petition
12
A. H. Chase Brooklyn Housekeeper view original petition
13
J. G. Baxter Brooklyn Housekeeper view original petition
14
J. L. Greenough Walton Housekeeper view original petition
15
Mary E. Nunn Summerville Housekeeper view original petition
16
B. M. Gibson Brooklyn Housekeeper view original petition
19
N. B. Beker Windsor Housekeeper view original petition
24
E. L. Buckell Centre Rawdon Housekeeper view original petition
4
Mabel L. young Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
7
Ida M. Blackburn Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
8
L. E. Fish Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
9
Mary E. Perry Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
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