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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 Front. Give Your 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 may women willingly participated in the world's first "great war."
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Photograph Prelude: The Speech 1. Away from the Fair Island 2. Canadian Born 3. Family Matters 4. The "Macdonald" Girl 5. The New Country 6. Marching As to War 7. Orpington 8. Beloved and Honoured Sons 9. Soldiersâ Choice 10. Somewhere in France 11. Ladies in the Legislature 12. Preparing for Peace 13. Going Home 14. Walking Out of History Notes Selected Bibliography Index
