Canadian women sought the right to vote and hold public office at least as early as 1883. It would be 35 years later before they won the vote (initially just in federal elections) and 46 years before they could sit in the Senate. But the ladies had the support of at least the […]
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Drunk Macdonald or reporter?
Booze 1829 — 1920 Newspapers still provided the only published reports of debates in the House of Commons when the Toronto Globe opposed a proposed Hansard, in which the words of members of Parliament would be published after officially recorded in shorthand by Parliamentary reporters. The Globe argued that politicians would be too inclined to […]