Voting in Manitoba by James Kostuchuk

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Welcome. Tonight we are going to look at voting in Manitoba. We will start with a little history.

Voting in Manitoba

Published on Sep 21, 2018

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Voting in Manitoba

Welcome. Tonight we are going to look at voting in Manitoba. We will start with a little history.

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Voting

A Little History Story

Canada inherited its political system from Great Britain.

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Who could vote?

1867

In the early days of Canadian history only a few people could vote.

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Male + Property = Right to Vote

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Who couldn't vote?

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Lots of People

Religious Groups
Cultural Groups
Political Groups
Labour Groups

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Hutterites

Hutterites were barred from voting.

Sikhs

This is Jagmeet Singh the first Sikh leader of a national political party.

Japanese

This is Tomey Homma. He helped found a hospital, school, and a newspaper. He took the government to court to get to vote, but he lost. Sadly, he died in a government prison camp in 1945. He was in prison for being Japanese.

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First Peoples

This is Tommy Longboat or Cogwagee. He was once the fastest man in the world. He won the Boston Marathon and was declared the champion of the world in running. He lived on the Six Nations Reserve and was barred from voting.

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Women

Nellie McClung lived in Manitou Manitoba. She protested for women to get the vote. This was finally achieved in 1916. Manitoba was the first province to allow women to vote.

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Women who wanted the vote were called suffragettes. They worked hard to change the laws in Canada.

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Communists

Tim Buck was sent to prison for being a communist in 1932. Prison guards fired shots into his cell just to scare him. He was later released when the government realised it was unjust to hold him for his political views. The Communist party was banned in Canada during World War Two.

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Prisoners

George Armstrong was a Winnipeg labour leader. After the General Strike in 1919 he was sent to jail. At the time, prisoners were not allowed to vote.

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Jewish Citizens
Inuit
Chinese
South Asians
Mennonites

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Doukhobors
Catholics
Quakers
Russians
Poles

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Muslims

This is Bedouin Ferran also known as Peter Baker. He was born in Lebanon. He worked in Canada's north as a fur trader. He was one of the earliest Muslim politicians in Canada. When he arrived in Canada in 1910, Muslims were barred from voting in British Columbia.

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