An attempt to name a 23-year old King's Counsel Fails. Joseph Howe acquits himself nicely. British law now covers the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. British laws said to be paramount. Canada gets it's first taste of a provincial separatist movement.
Canadian lawmakers succumb to temporary litigation insanity.
Canada toys with the idea of giving women the right to vote. There would be much imprudence to make a voter of her, to entangle her in the acts of shoving and acts of violence which accompany our political contests. Agnes Macphail becomes Canada's first female parliamentarian. Canada asks the country for law-making advice in wartime. This page published on November 4, 1996.