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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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L. M. Weir City Hospital view original petition
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Ida P. Bezanson Inglis St., Sydney view original petition
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Murtle Bezanson Inglis St., Sydney view original petition
26
J. H. Bezanson Inglis St., Sydney view original petition
1
Mrs. May Anderson view original petition
2
Mrs. C. Lewis view original petition
3
Mrs. R. D. MacKenzie view original petition
4
Mrs. John  Johnstone view original petition
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Mrs. Don MacKinnon view original petition
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Mrs. Emily Rigby view original petition
7
Mrs. Margaret Reid view original petition
8
Mrs. Rod  Mitchell view original petition
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Mrs. J. L. Connolly view original petition
10
Mrs. U. E. Atkinson view original petition
11
Lale Logue view original petition
12
S. L. Harrington view original petition
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Mrs. J. E. Burchell view original petition
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Mrs. D. A. Richards view original petition
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Mrs. M. McNeil view original petition
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Mrs. E. L. Hemsbey view original petition
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Mrs. E. Malmgram view original petition
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Mrs. Schaumpf view original petition
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Mrs. W. E. Clarke view original petition
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Mrs. A. MacMillan view original petition
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Mrs. A. L. Woods view original petition
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Mrs. J. H. Scott view original petition
23
Mrs. H. P. Duchemin view original petition
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Edith W. Trask 96 Rigby Rd., Sydney Domestic Science Teacher view original petition
2
Mrs. Hazel Wheeldon 76 Rigby Rd., Sydney Wife view original petition
3
Mrs. Hattie Travis 66 Rigby Rd., Sydney Wife view original petition
               

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