Canada
- 1916 - Manitoba becomes the first province where women have the right to vote in provincial elections.
- 1917 - Wartime Elections Act - Gives voting rights to women with relatives fighting overseas. Voting rights are stripped from all "enemy aliens" (those born in enemy countries who arrived in Canada after 1902; see also Ukrainian Canadian internment). Military Voters Act - gave the vote to all soldiers, even non-citizens, and to females serving as nurses or clerks for the armed forces, but the votes are not for specific candidates but simply for or against the government.
- 1918 - Women gain full voting rights in federal elections.
- 1919 - Women gain the right to run for federal office.
- 1940 - Quebec becomes the last province where women's right to vote is recognized.
- 1947 - Racial exclusions against Chinese and Indo-Canadians lifted.
- 1948 - Racial exclusions against Japanese Canadians lifted.
- 1955 - Religious exclusions are removed from election laws.
- 1960 - Right to vote is extended unconditionally to First Nations people. (Previously they could vote only by giving up their status as First Nations people; this requirement was removed.)
- 1960 - Right to vote in advance is extended to all electors willing to swear they would be absent on election day.
- 1965 - First Nations people granted the right to vote in Alberta provincial elections, starting with the Alberta general election, 1967
- 1969 - First Nations people granted the right to vote in Quebec provincial elections, starting with the Quebec general election, 1970
- 1970 - Voting age lowered from 21 to 18.
- 1982 - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees all adult citizens the right to vote.
- 1988 - Supreme Court of Canada rules mentally ill patients have the right to vote.
- 1993 - Any elector can vote in advance.
- 2000 - legislation is introduced making it easier for people of no fixed address to vote
- 2002 - Prisoners given the right to vote in the riding in which they received their conviction. All adult Canadians except the Chief and Deputy Returning Officers can now vote in Canada.
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“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)