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By Moira Bryan
Here are the tiles that are laid out in the museum, in case you don't have the opportunity to go see them yourself!

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Title page.

By R9
The date is mid-September 1916, and the referendum for women being able to vote in BC (a referendum which women could not vote in) has just passed. Suffragists, including Rose and Elspeth, are celebrating that the bill for women's votes will be set in motion in January 1917, not knowing that this date will be pushed back until April.

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Rose and Elspeth meet up with Gladys, an older woman who was witness to the birth of suffrage when the idea first took hold in BC in the 1890s. They discuss the evolution of suffrage in BC and how women's public reform groups fighting to start prohibition were the fore-mothers of the BC suffrage movement.

By R9
Timothy poses the question to Alfred of "why are you so opposed to women getting the vote?", to which Alfred, in all of his glorified ignorance, tells Timothy exactly why women are incapable of taking care of themselves, and why them getting the vote / being enfranchised would be a major detriment to society.

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An advertisement for a reenactment of the 1914 performance of 'Women's Parliament' held in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Walker Theatre. This satirical play written by Lillian Thomas starred Nellie McClung as the Premier of Manitoba in an alternate world where women held all of the political power and men led sheltered lives.