It was in 1916 that, after much struggle, women finally gained the right to vote. When Canada was founded, women did not share the  same rights as the men. For centuries, millennia even, women were thought of as inferior to men. It was thought that they were weaker, less intelligent, delicate even. An ideology that we now know is false. When canadian women gained the right to vote in 1916, Canada was one of the first to make the radical change, and it was likely that it helped start the ball rolling for other countries as well. This is a moment in canadian history that I am quite proud of.