that the
Government would introduce a woman suffrage bill of the widest scope.
The bill passed in Alberta in March with the full approval of press
and people and the suffragists met at once in the home of Mrs. Nellie
McClung at Edmonton to arrange for taking up their new duties. Mrs. O.
C. Edwards had been a ceaseless worker here and in Saskatchewan. In
1914 the first woman Judge in Canada, Mrs. Jamieson, president of the
Local Council of Women of Calgary, was appointed by the Attorney
General as Commissioner of the Juvenile Court. In February, 1918, two
women, Mrs. L. M. McKinney and Miss Roberta McAdams, a Lieutenant on
the staff of the Canadian military hospital in Orpington, Kent, were
elected to the Legislature, the first women legislators in the British
Empire.

In 1910 the women of Saskatchewan sent in petitions, some of them
endorsed by city councils, asking Municipal suffrage for married
women, but the Government refused it. In opening the Legislature on
Mar. 14, 1916, Lieutenant Governor Lake said: "In future years the one
outstanding feature of your program will be the full enfranchisement
of women." The suffragists of the Province had been organized about
five years and the president of the Franchise Board, Mrs. F. A.
Lawton, had presented to Premier Scott a petition signed by 10,000
names to show that public sentiment was in favor of this action. He
answered that he could give them a definite answer and, as he had
already announced, their request would be granted. He said that
although Manitoba had been the first to give women the suffrage those
of Saskatchewan would be the first to have a chance to use it. At an
early and full meeting of the Legislature a number of members spoke in
favor of it and it passed practically without opposition. In 1919 Mrs.
M. O. Ramsden was elected to the Legislature.

In 1902 a petition for woman suffrage was presented to the Government
in British Columbia and refused. Another effort was made in 1903 but
the subject was not brought before the Legislature until 1906, when it
defeated a bill. In 1908 it took away the Municipal franchise from
women householders. The women's clubs in Victoria secured 1,000 names
in three days protesting against this action. Mr. Naden, Liberal
member from Greenwood, introduced a bill restoring it, supported by
his party, but it was defeated. The Council of Women, at its November
meeting, adopted a resolution "to do all in its power to promote th