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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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Marie L. DesBarres Canso Typewriter view original petition
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C.M. Hart Canso Housewife view original petition
11
Alfred H. Hart Canso Merchant view original petition
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Mrs. A. MacDonald Canso Housewife view original petition
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Mrs. F.N. Horton Canso Housewife view original petition
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Mrs. A. Roberts Canso Housewife view original petition
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Mrs. A.A. Zinck Canso Housewife view original petition
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Alexander Roberts Canso Fisherman view original petition
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G.J. Whitman Canso Merchant view original petition
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Jean Whitman Canso view original petition
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Laurie Whitman Canso view original petition
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? R. Whitman Canso view original petition
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Edna Smith Canso Housekeeper view original petition
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Bessie F. Hartley Canso Housewife view original petition
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P.M. Hartley Canso Clergyman view original petition
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J.D. MacLeod Canso Clergyman view original petition
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Mrs. John McKay Canso view original petition
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John McKay Canso Carpenter view original petition
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Mrs. J.L. Talbot Canso view original petition
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Mr J.L. Talbot Canso view original petition
30
Mrs. P.E. Jamieson Canso view original petition
1
Mrs. Levi Munro Married view original petition
2
Mrs. Elizabeth Cousins Married view original petition
3
Mrs. Eliza Shrider Married view original petition
4
M. Carrie Self Canso Married view original petition
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Mrs. W. ? Married view original petition
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Beryl S. Lipsett Guysboro Teacher view original petition
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W.E. Morris Canso view original petition
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Mrs. Cran ? Munro view original petition
9
Annie Barss Hazel Hill Teacher view original petition
               

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