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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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Kate E. Murphy Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
35
May Wetmore Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
36
Mrs D. Wetmore Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
37
Dorcus Burrell Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
38
Mrs E.J. Vickery Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
39
H.V.G. Webster Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
40
Mary C. Hill Yarmouth Home Keeper view original petition
41
Lacy Dennis Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
42
Mrs Wetmore Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
43
Mrs Mary D. Churchill Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
44
Mrs J.E. Ferguson Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
45
Mrs F.G. Trask Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
46
Mrs George E. Burrows Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
47
Miss Evangeline Burrows Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
48
Mrs Peterkin Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
49
Mrs E.A. Wyman Yarmouth Homemaker view original petition
50
Mrs Nisbett Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
51
Miss Agnes J. Chipman Yarmouth Retired Teacher view original petition
52
Mrs William Cain Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
53
Mrs C.E. Hector Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
54
Alice E. Raymond Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
55
Mrs C.D. Jones Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
56
Mrs W.D. Robertson Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
57
N. Hibbert Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
58
Mrs R. Carty Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
59
Mrs R. Stanwick Yarmouth Ladies Home view original petition
1
Leo B. Cann Yarmouth Master Mariner view original petition
2
Mrs G.H. Landry Yarmouth Dress Maker view original petition
3
M.G. Lovitt Yarmouth view original petition
4
J.H. Creighton Yarmouth Accountant view original petition
               

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