Give Your Other Vote to the Sister
Subtitle: A Womans Journey into the Great War (Legacies Shared)
Publisher: Michigan State University Press; University of Calgary Press
Published: June 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781552382288
Subjects: Biography: general; Women's studies; Military; Women; Biography & Autobiography; Alberta; Biography; Canada; Legislators; Nurses; Women legislators; Biography/Autobiography
Description: "Give Your Other Vote to the Sister tells the story of Roberta MacAdams, the first woman elected to the Alberta Legislature. In fact, she was one of the first two women elected to a legislature anywhere in the British Empire. Her triumph was extraordinary for many reasons. Not only did she run while serving as a nursing sister overseas during the Great War, but over 90 per cent of her electors were men - Alberta soldiers stationed in England and in the muddy trenches of the Western From. Give You Other Vote to the Sister describes MacAdams' journey overseas, her work at a large military hospital in London, and the personal sacrifices she endured during the war. It also chronicles Debbie Marshall's own journey to reclaim MacAdams' life, one that took her across Canada and to the places where MacAdams lived and worked in England and France. It was a search that would change her own perceptions about how and why so many women willingly participated in the world's first "great war.""--Jacket.