Who became the first woman Member of Parliament in Canada?

Discover Canada records this with one direct caption: Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman MP in 1921. The same passage in the guide adds the matching short narrative: "In 1921 Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman MP." The person the test wants is therefore Agnes Macphail, and the year of the first is 1921.

The 1921 first follows directly from the federal voting rights extended in 1918. Discover Canada's exact wording: "In 1918, most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over were granted the right to vote in federal elections. In 1921 Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman MP." So three years after most Canadian women got the federal vote, the first woman was sent to the federal Parliament — Agnes Macphail.

The biographical details in the caption are useful to remember her with. Discover Canada calls her simply "a farmer and teacher" — not a lawyer, not a long-time politician, but someone whose two ordinary professions defined her place in this milestone. The combination of woman, farmer, teacher and MP in one sentence is what new citizens are expected to recall.

Macphail's election sits inside the wider story of Canadian women's political rights. Discover Canada traces it from the founding of the women's suffrage movement by Dr. Emily Stowe, through Manitoba's provincial first in 1916, the wartime federal extension of 1917 under Sir Robert Borden, the broader 1918 federal vote, Agnes Macphail in 1921, and Quebec's later provincial extension in 1940.

The question is testing whether new citizens have remembered the name Discover Canada attaches to one of the most-cited milestones in Canadian women's political history. The guide names exactly one person — Agnes Macphail — and exactly one year — 1921 — for the first woman MP.

The wrong answer choices are all real Canadian women named in Discover Canada in different roles. Dr. Emily Stowe is identified as the founder of the women's suffrage movement, not the first woman MP. The other answer-choice figures are not the ones credited with this 1921 first. Picking another woman swaps in someone with a different role.