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I didn't feel much like voting today. But I did, because I think it's important.

I've always loved history and did my degree at Queen's in history and english. I especially love social history, which focuses on the history of everyday people and what their lives were like.

This is a photo of my great grandparents on their wedding day in 1896. My great grandmother May was just 19 years old. In her world, many women in Canada were fighting to be allowed to vote and were not winning the battle.

"...bills to enfranchise women in provincial elections failed to pass in any province until Manitoba finally succeeded in 1916. Full enfranchisement was not to come until 1918, when the Dominion (federal) parliament passed an act giving women the vote. The remaining provinces quickly followed suit, except for Quebec, which did not do so until 1940."
(from wikipedia :)

It wasn't until she was 42 years old that May was allowed to vote. The story of the women that fought for this right is so interesting to me. It's a right that I don't want to take for granted.