Editing Suffrage (section)

===Canada===
{{See also|The Famous Five (Canada)}}
* 1871 – One of the first acts of the new Province of [[British Columbia]] strips the franchise from First Nations, and ensures Chinese and Japanese people are prevented from voting.
* 1916 – [[Manitoba]] becomes the first province in which women have the right to vote in provincial elections.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://manitobia.ca/content/en/themes/wwv |title=Women win the vote : Digital Resources on Manitoba History |website=manitobia.ca |access-date=16 March 2017 |archive-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827101830/http://manitobia.ca/content/en/themes/wwv |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=his&document=chap2&lang=e |title=A History of the Vote in Canada |last=Canada |first=Elections |language=en |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref>
* 1917 – The federal ''[[Wartime Elections Act]]'' gives voting rights to women with relatives fighting overseas. Voting rights are stripped from all "[[enemy aliens]]" (those born in enemy countries who arrived in Canada after 1902; see also [[Ukrainian Canadian internment]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/timeline_text.html |title=The Famous Five – Timeline |publisher=Abheritage.ca |date=8 December 2010 |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref> The federal ''[[Military Voters Act]]'' gives the vote to all soldiers, even non-citizens, (with the exception of Indian and Metis veterans)<ref>Indian Act of Canada S.C. 1938 chap 46 sec 14(2)(i)/Dominion Elections Act S.C.1948 chap 46</ref> and to women serving as nurses or clerks for the armed forces, but the votes are not for specific candidates but simply for or against the government.
* 1918 – Women gain full voting rights in federal elections.<ref name="Faculty.marianopolis.edu 1916"/>
* 1919 – Women gain the right to run for federal office.<ref name="Faculty.marianopolis.edu 1916">{{cite web |url=http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/Canada-WomensVote-WomenSuffrage.htm |title=Canada – Women's Vote – Women Suffrage |publisher=Faculty.marianopolis.edu |date=27 January 1916 |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>
* 1940 – Quebec becomes the last province where women's right to vote is recognized. (see [[Canadian women during the world wars]] for more information on Canadian suffrage)
* 1947 – Racial exclusions against Chinese and Indo-Canadians lifted.
* 1948 – Racial exclusions against Japanese Canadians lifted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/elections/topics/1450/ |title=CBC Digital Archives |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>
* 1955 – Religious exclusions are removed from election laws.<ref name="Canada 2017">{{Cite web |url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=his&document=chap3&lang=e |title=A History of the Vote in Canada |last=Canada |first=Elections |language=en |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref>
* 1960 – Right to vote is extended unconditionally to [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] peoples. (Previously they could vote only by giving up their status as First Nations people.)<ref name="Noel Dyck 2016">{{cite encyclopedia |author=Noel Dyck; Tonio Sadik |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-people-political-organization-and-activism |title=Aboriginal people, political organization and activism |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=15 April 2016 |access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref>
* 1960 – Right to vote in advance is extended to all electors willing to swear they would be absent on election day.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=bkg&document=ec90785&lang=e |title=The Evolution of the Federal Franchise |last=Canada |first=Elections |language=en |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref>
* 1965 – [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] people granted the right to vote in [[Alberta]] provincial elections, starting with the [[1967 Alberta general election]].<ref name="Noel Dyck 2016"/>
* 1969 – [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] people granted the right to vote in [[Quebec]] provincial elections, starting with the [[1970 Quebec general election]].<ref name="Noel Dyck 2016"/>
* 1970 – Voting age lowered from 21 to 18.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Evolution of the Federal Franchise |url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=bkg&document=ec90785&lang=e |website=Elections Canada |date=9 December 2020}}</ref>
* 1982 – The new ''[[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]]'' guarantees all adult citizens the right to vote.
* 1988 – Supreme Court of Canada rules mentally ill patients have the right to vote.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/rights_freedoms/topics/1450-9559/ |title=CBC Digital Archives |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>
* 1993 – Any elector can vote in advance.<ref name="Canada 2017"/>
* 2000 – Legislation is introduced making it easier for people of [[no fixed abode|no fixed address]] to vote.
* 2002 – Prisoners given the right to vote in the riding (voting district) where they were convicted. All adult Canadians except the Chief and Deputy [[Electoral Officer]]s can now vote in Canada.<ref>Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer)
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* 2019 – The [[Supreme Court of Canada]] rules that portions of the federal ''[[Canada Elections Act]]'' which prevent citizens who have been living abroad for more than five years from voting by mail are in violation of [[Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] and thus unconstitutional.<ref>{{cite web |title=Frank v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 SCC 1 |url=https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/17446/index.do |website=Lexum |date=January 2001 |access-date=27 January 2019}}</ref>