HIST 2930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Livermore, Lower Canada, Canada Women'S National Soccer Team
3 Feb 2017
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Women at the hustings: gender, citizenship and the montreal by-elections of 1832. Under the laws of lower canada women could vote if they owned or rented property of the required value in their own name: allowed by quebec"s coutume de paris. However, women were likely to have their votes contested and disqualified. Roman catholic church assumed a new influence, patriots were transformed into liberals who made claims to the universality of rights and freedom but denied basic liberties to women and enslaved people. Francophone women were valued by nationalists for producing families or by joining religious orders, but not for much else. Quebec was the last province to grant women the right to vote. Polls had been open for 6 days in may 1832 when marguerite paris (widow), stepped up and publicly declared that the patriot candidate daniel tracey was her choice in the by-election in montreal west.
