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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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Lucilla Burgess Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
12
Bessie A. Harvey Hants Border Housekeeper view original petition
14
Della S. Lawrence Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
17
Alice Donivan Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
19
S. L. Dickie Hantsport Housekeeper view original petition
14
Mrs. J. B. Hemmun Wolfville Housekeeper view original petition
19
Janet Marshall Wolfville Housekeeper, Academy Researcher view original petition
10
M. B. Jacques Auburn Housekeeper view original petition
11
Mrs. H. Barkhouse Auburn Housekeeper view original petition
12
E. J. H. Bishop Housekeeper view original petition
6
H. X. Jarvis Aylesford Housekeeper view original petition
1
Mrs. Murray Ball Canso Housekeeper view original petition
26
Mrs. Harvey Canso Housekeeper view original petition
21
Edna Smith Canso Housekeeper view original petition
14
Catherine Tompkins Guysboro Housekeeper view original petition
33
Bessie N. Jost Guysboro Housekeeper view original petition
38
Mrs. F. Nickerson Guysboro Housekeeper view original petition
12
Miss E. M. Macull Yarmouth Housekeeper view original petition
20
Miss Annie  Killam Willow St., Yarmouth Housekeeper view original petition
5
Miss Lois Sanders Yarmouth Housekeeper view original petition
15
Miss Ethel V. Eldridge Yarmouth Housekeeper view original petition
5
Mrs. Charles Heisler Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
6
Mrs. Nathaniel Mason Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
7
Mrs. Wilton Knox Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
18
Mrs. F. L. M. Wood Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
19
Mrs. M. M. Gardner Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
20
Mrs. H. N. Pyke Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
21
Mrs. Isaac Emenau Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
22
Miss Florence Emenau Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
23
Mrs. John Berringer Lunenburg Housekeeper view original petition
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