Saint John: Nothing Happened Here
Saint John: Nothing Happened Here
Mark Allan Greene - History Author
Except for the Fight for Women's Voting Rights
1 hour 8 minutes Posted Mar 4, 2025 at 4:00 am.
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This episode, released close to International Women’s Day (March 8), recalls an important political reform cause in Saint John’s past that was part of a national and international movement: the fight for women’s voting rights. Starting in the late 1800s, the Saint John Women’s Enfranchisement Organization, which was a spinoff from a national organization, worked tirelessly for the provincial franchise for New Brunswick women as a citizenship right. The Saint John suffragists, who had male all...