Universal Suffrage

Definition:

“The right to vote in Canada has not always been universal.It has been withheld from many groups throughout historybased on gender, race, religion and even occupation.It took decades of people and groups campaigning forequality to be achieved.Universal suffrage is the extension of the right to voteto all adult citizens, including the removal of propertyownership requirements and restrictions against women,First Nations and Inuit and ethnic and religious minorities.Universal suffrage was not achieved in Canada until 1960.” CIVIX Canada

Sources: 

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE 2018

Resources: 

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE 2018

The chaotic story of the right to vote in Canada | CMHR