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Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War.(Brief article)(Book review)
Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War
by Debbie Marshall. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 319 pp., illus., soft cover, $29.95.
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When Alberta women were given the vote in 1917, military personnel overseas were permitted to vote for two candidates. In a shrewd move, Lieut. Roberta MacAdams, a nursing sister, urged the men to make their own first choice and then "give your other vote to the sister." It worked and MacAdams became one of the first two women elected to a legislature in the British Empire.
This book provides a detailed account of this women's career. Born in Ontario in 1880, her father was a Conservative newspaper man there and brother was city editor of the Edmonton ...
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