Who worked to secure the right to vote for women in Quebec in 1940?

Discover Canada records this with one direct sentence. The guide writes: Due to the work of Thérèse Casgrain and others, Quebec granted women the vote in 1940. The person the test wants is therefore Thérèse Casgrain, and the year of the Quebec extension is 1940.

The 1940 Quebec date matters because it is later than the rest of Canada. Discover Canada's suffrage timeline goes Manitoba in 1916, federal extension in 1917–1918 under Sir Robert Borden, the first woman MP — Agnes Macphail — in 1921, and finally Quebec in 1940. So Thérèse Casgrain's work delivered the last major step in Discover Canada's account of women winning the vote in this country.

The phrase "and others" in the guide is also worth noticing. Discover Canada credits the 1940 Quebec extension to a movement, not a single person — but it names Thérèse Casgrain first. So the right test answer is the one named individual leader the guide associates with the 1940 Quebec milestone, not any of the figures from elsewhere in the suffrage story.

The wider chain in Discover Canada connects four named women — Dr. Emily Stowe, founder of the women's suffrage movement and the first Canadian woman to practise medicine; Agnes Macphail, the first woman MP in 1921; Thérèse Casgrain, the leader of the Quebec extension in 1940; and the broader movement of suffragettes who pushed all of these reforms forward.

The question is testing whether new citizens know which name Discover Canada attaches to the 1940 Quebec suffrage extension. The guide names exactly one person — Thérèse Casgrain — and uses the phrase "and others" to acknowledge the movement around her without giving a second name.

The wrong answer choices each appear in Discover Canada in different roles. Agnes Macphail is the first woman MP in 1921, not a Quebec suffrage leader. Dr. Emily Stowe — founder of the suffrage movement — is described elsewhere; she is not the figure named for the 1940 Quebec extension. The other distractor names belong to different chapters of the guide entirely.