Thanks to the work of ______ and others, women in Quebec won the right to vote in 1940.
Answer: Therese Casgrain.
Due to the work of Therese Casgrain and others, Quebec granted women the vote in 1940. Dr. Emily Stowe founded the women's suffrage movement in Canada, and Agnes Macphail became the first woman MP in 1921.
All answer choices
- Therese Casgrain. (correct answer)
- Emily Stowe.
- Agnes Macphail.
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
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