Now about several months ago I read in a book that in Britain it wasnt until 1919 that all men were allowed to vote. Yet in Canada we had women voting as pawns of Borden in 1917.


My question is in the years immediately following confederation where all men allowed to vote? Or just the rich white ones.

   

Laurier’s major electoral reform (at the end of the 19th Century) adopted provincial franchise requirements for federal elections. This removed the property requirements (which many provinces had abolished) for adult males. True universal suffrage (federal requirements that still restricted some) came into existence by 1920 (that included women – this was extended from the Military Voters Act).