vorable. Before the committee had time to put in a
bill one was drafted by Supreme Court Justice Russell and introduced
by R. H. Graham. The women filled the galleries at its second reading
and it passed without opposition and was referred to the Law
Amendments Committee, of which the Attorney General was chairman. It
gave a public hearing and the women crowded the Assembly Chamber
upstairs and downstairs and nine short speeches were made by women.
The Premier and Attorney General said it was the best organized
hearing and best presented case that had come before a House Committee
in twenty-five years. The Bill was left with the committee with the
assurance that it would be well cared for--and then it was postponed
indefinitely! The excuse was that there had been no demand from the
country districts! By another year, however, it was too late for such
tactics and when Lieutenant Governor McCallum Grant opened the
Legislature with the speech from the throne on Feb. 21, 1918, he
announced that the electoral franchise would be given to women. The
amended Franchise Act went through the Lower House without opposition;
had its second reading in the Senate April 29 and the third May 3, and
received the royal assent May 23. This added the State suffrage to the
Federal, which had been conferred the preceding month.

Widows and spinsters in the Province of Quebec had Municipal and
School suffrage from 1892. In 1903 in the city council of Montreal an
amendment to the charter was moved to take it away. The Woman's
Christian Temperance Union held several large public meetings to
oppose such action addressed by prominent men. The press published
articles and letters of protest and it was voted down. In 1910 the
first suffrage society was formed in Montreal with Mrs. Bullock
president. In 1914 a deputation of Montreal women presented a petition
to the Premier, Sir Lorner Guoin, asking that women might sit on
school boards and that the Municipal franchise be extended to married
women. No action was taken. After the Federal Suffrage was granted in
1918 by the Dominion Parliament, which included the women of Quebec, a
bill was introduced in its Legislature to grant them the Provincial
franchise, which was voted down. Similar bills were defeated in 1918
and 1920 and Quebec remains the only Province in Canada where women
do not possess the State franchise in addition to the National.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

When the Provinces of Canada united