In 1916, women earned the right to vote in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. By 1922, all the Canadian provinces, except Quebec, had granted full suffrage to White and Black women. Newfoundland, at that time a separate country, granted women suffrage in 1925. Women in Quebec did not receive full suffrage until 1940.
At about 27:52, Miss Martin mentions Emmaline Pankhurst, the leader of the suffragettes in the UK. Pankhurst (1858-1928) founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1898, which she reinvented as the Women's Party in 1917. Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes were known for their militant tactics.
The League of Women Voters did not exist during the time frame of this episode, but the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association (CWSA) was established in Toronto in 1883 and had both women and men as members. The CWSA reorganized as the Domninon Women's Enfrachisement Association (DWEA) under the leadership of Dr. Emily Stowe.
Women were in fact able to vote in the early 19th century in parts of British North America, particularly in Lower Canada, in the Maritimes. and in Canada West. But they were completely disenfranchised throughout the colonies by the middle of the 19th century. Furthermore, the British North America Act of 1867, which created the Dominion of Canada, explicitly stated that only each "Male British Subject, aged Twenty-one Years or upwards, being a Householder, shall have a Vote."