1 dollar 2016 - Women's Right to Vote
By thecanadiannumismatist | Tuesday, 29 April 2025
One hundred years after Canadian women won the right to vote in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta provincial elections, the Royal Canadian Mint released a special one-dollar circulation coin to commemorate this important milestone in the history of women's rights in Canada. The coin was unveiled by the Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance at a ceremony held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
A total of five million Women's Right to Vote one-dollar circulation coins were available nation-wide. Designed by Canadian artist Laurie McGaw, the reverse of this coin features a 1916-era depiction of woman and child, with the woman casting a ballot as the child looks on. The inscriptions WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE, DROIT DE VOTE DES FEMMES and 1916-2016 also appear in the top portion of the coin.
The Mint is proud to issue a new one-dollar circulation coin which shares the story of the 100th anniversary of a moment which forever changed voting rights for Canadian women.
It is especially fitting that this coin was produced in Winnipeg, in the province where women first won the right to vote in 1916.
- Sandra Hanington, President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint
Women's suffrage in Canada occurred at different times, in different jurisdictions, and across different demographic categories that women fell into.
- 1916: Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
- 1917: British Columbia, Ontario, Federal
- 1918: Nova Scotia
- 1919: New Brunswick Yukon
- 1922: Prince Edward Island
- 1925: Newfoundland and Labrador
- 1940: Quebec
- 1951: Northwest Territories
- 1999: Nunavut
By the end of 1922, all Canadian provinces except Quebec had granted full voting rights to white and Black women, however Asian and Indigenous women were still unable to vote.
In 1960, Parliament passed the Canada Elections Act, which gave all registered Indians the right to vote.
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