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 […]
Tag: Women’s suffrage
Bloomers ignite an apoplectic fit of misogyny
Women who wore trousers in the mid-nineteenth century were known as Bloomers, after Amelia Jenks Bloomer, U.S. campaigner for temperance and women’s rights. The impending arrival of Mrs. Bloomer in Toronto caused the Daily Leader to suffer this apoplectic fit of misogyny, September 12, 1853. Bloomerism, women’s rights ism! and the Maine Law ism […]