A Place at the Table: 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote

From the early 1890s, women in Newfoundland petitioned for suffrage (the right to vote) under the banners of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Ladies Reading Room and Current Events Club, and the Women’s Patriotic Association. In 1920, Armine Gosling, Fannie McNeil, May Kennedy, and Anna Mitchell founded the Women’s Franchise League and led the final campaign for suffrage. In April 1925, women across Newfoundland won the right to vote and to run for political office.