d it was largely
carried on during much of the time by the Dominion Women's
Enfranchisement Association, which had been incorporated in 1889. Dr.
Augusta Stowe Gullen became its president in 1903, after the death of
her mother, Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, and held it until 1911. While its
principal object was the Dominion or National franchise for all women
it was for years at the head of the effort for the Provincial suffrage
in Ontario. In 1905, in connection with the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, it organized a very representative deputation to
wait upon the Premier to ask that the Municipal vote possessed by
widows and spinsters be extended to married women. He said that
'neither he nor any other statesman had placed woman where she was;
that the Infinite was at work and woman being a part of the Divine
plan her place was assigned by a greater power.' In 1906 a deputation
from the association, headed by Dr. Stowe Gullen, with Dr. Margaret
Gordon and Mrs. Flora McDonald Denison as speakers, called on the
Mayor and Council of Toronto and asked them to pass a resolution for
the extension of this Municipal franchise. They did so and sent it by
this deputation to the Legislature. As a result a bill for it was
introduced and after a day's fun and sarcasm in the House it was
defeated by 69 to 2.

In 1907 the Dominion Association at its annual meeting changed its
name to the Canadian Suffrage Association. In 1908 it decided not to
memorialize the Government but to make greater efforts to organize and
for this purpose Mrs. Denison, vice-president and official organizer,
visited Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. On March 24, 1909, the
association sent a deputation of 1,000 of its members to the House of
Parliament to ask for full suffrage for the women of Ontario. Dr.
Stowe Gullen presented with a strong argument a petition which
represented 100,000 names and many important organizations, among them
the Women's University Clubs, Women Teachers' Association, Medical
Alumnae of the University of Toronto, Progressive Club, Trades and
Labor Council, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Dominion Temperance
Association. There were prominent men and women speakers. Sir James
Whitney, the Premier, answered adversely. The crowds were so great
that Cabinet ministers could not gain admittance but all this
demonstration resulted in no action. Allan Studholme, Labor member
from East Hami