It's a little known fact. In 1917, Premier Borden created the War Time Elections Act that temporarily gave the federal vote only to women with men at the Front. Suffragist Nellie McClung is often given the credit by historians for having given Mr. Borden the idea, but there is strong evidence pointing to someone else, a Toronto suffrage leader. Service and Disservice brings four relatively unknown Canadian suffragists, including Flora MacDonald Denison and Carrie Derick, 'back to life' to speak to the issue.--Author's description.
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Table of Contents
- By Dorothy Nixon 1
- All Rights Reserved 2016 1
- A work of fiction based on a true story and a great deal of archival material. An 1
- ISBN 978-0-9947495-1-2 1
- Believe me one word from the women of England is worth more than a million from our own women. 2
- People of your quality are not to be judged by worldly standards. 2
- Who Shares the Cost of War Women 2
- Who faces death in order to give life to men Women 2
- Who loves and works to raise the sons who are killed in battle Women 2
- Who keeps shops and schools and works in factories while the men are in the trenches Women 2
- Who dares say that war is not their business 2
- In the name of Justice and Courage give women a voice in government. 2
- And in the councils that make and prevent war. 2
- Women of Canada Every vote for the Union Government is a vote for reinforcements 3
- Flora Macdonald Denison AuthorJournalistSeamstress 3
- Frances Fenwick Williams AuthorJournalist 4
- Mrs. H.W. Kathleen Weller Wife 4
- Mrs. L.A. Constance Hamilton Wife 4
- Carrie Derick University ProfessorGeneticist 4
- In 1916 during the war Monsieur Laurier now Leader of the Opposition said he would support votes for women. In late May 1917 Premier Borden strongly 4
- Chapter 1 Flora Macdonald Denison 5
- Toronto World Stray Leaves from a Suffragette. 9
- Crime Against Criminals 18
- Mary Melville Psychic 19
- Toronto Sun 21
- Toronto Sun intimately 22
- Toronto Sun 28
- Women and War 32
- Chapter 2 Frances Fenwick Williams 33
- Before Verdun Recruiting Song. 34
- Feminist 37
- The Feminist 37
- The Montreal Saturday Mirror Montreal Herald 38
- How the Vote was Won 39
- Montreal Herald 40
- Montreal Herald 41
- How the Vote was Won 42
- Votes for Women Help for Wounded 42
- How the Vote was Won 42
- Daily Mail A Soul on Fire. 42
- The Recruiting Poem 43
- Recruiting Poem 44
- Traitors to the dead 45
- Before Verdun 45
- Feminist 48
- Chapter 3 Kathleen Weller 49
- The Herald. 52
- Montreal Gazette 54
- History of the Canadian Suffrage Movement 55
- Womens Charter of Rights and Liberties 56
- How the Vote was Won 58
- My Faith in Womens Suffrage 59
- The Feminist Saturday Mirror 61
- Toronto World 63
- Witness 64
- Witness Daily Mail 64
- Montreal Daily Mail 66
- Votes for Women 67
- Act to Confer the Electoral Franchise on Women. 72
- New Century Magazine 74
- New Century 78
- Chapter 5 Carrie Derick 93
