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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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Sylvanus Veinot Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Geo W. Ball Pleasant River Clergyman view original petition
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Percy M. Colp Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Nathaniel Colp Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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A. D. Murley Pleasant River Merchant view original petition
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Arch Colp Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Irving Colp Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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M. F. Colp Pleasant River G. P. view original petition
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C. F. Waterman Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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S. N. Freeman Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Geo H. Smith Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Henry E. Wile Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Jacob Faulkner Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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William Johns Pleasant River view original petition
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H. Lo Fancy Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Silvanus Veinot Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Ian Frank Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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James R. Smith Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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John E. Harmon Pleasant River Mason view original petition
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George S. Herman Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Lynville Herman Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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Eli Lohnas Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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G. A. Colp Pleasant River Farmer view original petition
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A. Effie Ball Pleasant River view original petition
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Jessie E. Murley Pleasant River view original petition
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Etta Colp Pleasant River view original petition
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Delia Colp Pleasant River view original petition
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Lydia F. Colp Pleasant River view original petition
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Lina Waterman Pleasant River view original petition
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Joe U. Mailman Pleasant River view original petition
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