relating to the voting of women
follow closely those of New Zealand. There never has been a proposal
to take away the political privileges of women, which could be done by
an Act of Parliament. On the contrary during the years when the
contest for woman suffrage was being carried on in Great Britain its
Parliament was more than once urged by that of Australia to grant it.
In 1917, when the struggle was at its height, the strongest possible
memorial was adopted by the National Parliament of Australia, which
said:

Appreciating the blessings of self-government in Australia
through adult suffrage, and appreciating the desire of Your
Majesty's Government to vindicate the claims of the small nations
to self-government, we are confident that Your Majesty will
recognize the justice of the same claim in the case of the small
nation of women in Your Majesty's kingdom--women who, in this
great crisis in the history of the British Empire ... have proved
themselves as worthy soldiers as those on the battlefield, and as
worthy of the protection of the ballot, which is conceded to
men.... We are deeply interested in the welfare of the women of
the Empire and we again humbly petition Your Majesty to endow
them with that right of self-government for which they have
petitioned for nearly three-quarters of a century.

The most prominent statesmen of Australia and New Zealand in their
visits to Great Britain, Canada and the United States have given
testimony as to the benefits of woman suffrage.

DOMINION OF CANADA.

When Volume IV of this History was written in 1900 four pages sufficed
for an account of woman suffrage in Canada. It was confined to a
Municipal or School franchise or both in the Provinces for widows and
spinsters, and in some of them married women were included. This
privilege began in Ontario in 1884 and the situation remained
unchanged until 1916, when the World War, which brought the full
enfranchisement of women in many countries, began to have its effect
in Canada. For the large amount of valuable material from which the
following brief resume is made the History is indebted to Dr. Augusta
Stowe Gullen, a leader of the woman suffrage movement. Its foundation
was laid in 1878 and following years by the mother of Dr. Gullen, the
pioneer woman physician, Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, a friend and
contemporary of Susan B. Anthony[217]. Dr. Stowe was a found