Provincially, women were given the right to vote in 1916 in the four western provinces of Canada, 1917 in Ontario, 1918 in Nova Scotia, 1919 in New Brunswick, 1922 in Prince Edward Island, and Quebec in 1940. The five famous Suffragettes who were responsible for women's rights becoming a thing were, Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Henrietta Muir