But will it fly

But will it fly?
“Disturbers are never popular – no body ever loved an alarm clock in action
– No matter how grateful they may have been afterwards for its services.”
Nellie Letitia Mooney McClung (1873 – 1951)

The turn of the twentieth century was an era of political turmoil. For the first time in Canadian history, the voices of civil rights and women’s suffrage were beginning to be heard. Due to their perseverance, women would eventually be granted the right to vote. Although it is impossible to give complete credit of women’s suffrage to anyone, one can see, after examining the evidence, that Nellie L. McClung was the strength behind this reformation.
To understand Nellie McClung’s contribution to Canadian women’s suffrage, one must first examine her life as a whole. The youngest of six children born in Chatsworth, Ontario, in 1873, she was told at an early age that women were to always “defer to men, to accept male opinions and not to ‘pu...