difficulties in the way, as the Election Act provided that the
Provincial lists of voters were in force for the election of the
members of the Dominion Parliament and if the Provinces did not first
grant the suffrage to women the cost and work would be required of
preparing new lists of the women voters. He said that each Province
must enfranchise its women before the Federal Government could act and
no Province had done so at this time.

In 1914 Dr. Gordon, president of the Toronto Suffrage Society,
organized an influential deputation from its members which asked the
city council to submit to the voters at the approaching local election
the question of extending to married women the Municipal franchise now
possessed by widows and spinsters simply to ascertain their opinion.
This was done and the measure was carried by a majority of 13,713.
During 1914, 1915 and 1916 Dr. Gordon sent a letter to the councils of
the other cities, towns, villages and rural communities asking them to
hold a referendum or to pass a resolution in favor of this extension
and send it to the Government. The letters were followed by a
successful campaign in the municipalities by the society. As a result
33 referenda were held, all giving favorable majorities, and about 160
other municipal governments memorialized the Ontario Legislature in
favor. Dr. Gullen published an open letter describing these efforts.
They had no effect on the Legislature nor did it make any concessions
to the women even in the way of much needed better laws, for which
they petitioned.

At the annual meeting of the Canadian Suffrage Association, October 30
Mrs. Denison resigned the presidency and Dr. Gordon was elected. On
the 31st the members put on record the work of its beloved founder and
one of the originators of the National Council of Women by presenting
a bronze bust of Dr. Emily Howard Stowe to the city of Toronto. It was
officially received by the Mayor and placed in the main corridor of
Municipal Hall, the first memorial of this kind to any woman in
Canada.

This year the National Council of Women took a firm stand and urged
that each Province fully enfranchise its women and asked the Dominion
Parliament to grant the Federal vote to women. In 1915 the Ontario
society sent another deputation to the Legislature to ask for the
Municipal franchise and reminded the Premier, Sir William Hearst, of
the favorable verdict that had been given by the voters. He answered