This long-overdue account of the suffrage campaigns in the first region to grant women the vote in Canada shatters cherished myths about how the West was won.

Introduction

1 Settler Suffragists: Context, Causes, Obstacles

2 Manitoba: A Long-Sustained and Just Agitation

3 Saskatchewan: A Spark Nearly Smothered

4 Alberta: Plain, Old-Fashioned, Unfrilled Justice

5 A New Day Coming? Essential by Incomplete Victories

Sources and Further Readings; Index

Sarah Carter is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of women and First Nations in Prairie Canada, including Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies, which won the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research and the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, which she edited with Patricia McCormack, won four prizes, including the Canadian Historical Association's Aboriginal History Award and the Coalition for Western Women's History's Armitage-Jameson Book Prize in North American women's and gender history. She is a professor and the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. In 2020, she was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities.