• During the 17th Canadian Parliament, the number of sitting women senators increased. Ten women ran for seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1930...
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    The Canadian Music Hall of Fame honours Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements. Patriotic music in Canada dates back over 200 years. The earliest...
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  • the global participation rate of women in national-level parliaments is 24.5%. In 2013, women accounted for 8% of all national leaders and 2% of all presidential...
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    The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women...
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    House of Commons of Canada of the 13th Parliament of Canada. Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was...
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    The House of Commons of Canada (French: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the...
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  • worked with the First Nations people of Canada during the 17th century, wrote in 1654 regarding the suffrage practices of Iroquois women: "These female...
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    world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893. However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919...
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  • preliminary list of members of the House of Commons of Canada in the 44th Canadian Parliament. Party leaders are listed in italics. Parliamentary secretaries...
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  • includes: Members of Parliament—Members of the House of Commons of Canada; Senators—Members of the Senate of Canada Governor-general—Canadian Governors General...
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    the same visit): The origins of Canadian sovereignty lie in the early 17th century, during which time the monarch in England fought with parliament there...
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    Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada" (PDF). Canadian Woman Studies.[permanent dead link‍] "The Residential School System". Indigenous...
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    legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative...
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    Department of Canadian Heritage. "Ceremonial and Canadian Symbols Promotion: The crown in Canada". Queen's Printer for Canada. Archived from the original on...
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    Women work in the legal profession and related occupations throughout Canada, as lawyers (also called barristers, attorneys or legal counselors), prosecutors...
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    and events in Canada and its predecessor states. Canada portal List of Canadian historians Canadian studies National historic significance Events of National...
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    Bedford Bennett Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario) Parliament17th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Legh Walsh Lieutenant Governor...
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    King's Daughters (category History of women in Canada)
    began to develop farms and by the mid-17th century, there was a severe imbalance between single men and women in New France. The small number of female immigrants...
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    Throughout the history of Canada, the Canadian government (its colonial predecessors and settlers) have been accused of what has variously been described...
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    Bedford Bennett Chief Justice – Francis Alexander Anglin (Ontario) Parliament17th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – William Egbert (until May 5) then...
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    Anne Genetet (category Deputies of the 17th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic)
    organizations on maid issues. In parliament, Genetet serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific...
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  • chose the Senate, and senators had to possess significant property to be deemed worthy and sensible enough for the position. In 1913, the 17th Amendment...
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    Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...
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    According to the 2021 Canadian census, over 450 "ethnic or cultural origins" were self-reported by Canadians. The major panethnic origin groups in Canada are:...
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    The French Parliament (French: Parlement français, [paʁləmɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is the bicameral parliament of the French Fifth Republic, consisting of the upper...
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  • This is a list of Iranian women, of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both women born in Iran and women that are of the Iranian diaspora. Shirin...
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