In which year were Aboriginal peoples granted the right to vote in federal elections?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence about voting rights. The guide writes: Aboriginal people were granted the vote in 1960. Today every citizen over the age of 18 may vote. The year the test wants is therefore 1960.

Two precise commitments. Discover Canada commits the Aboriginal voting-rights extension to TWO specific facts: (1) the year was 1960; and (2) today every citizen over the age of 18 may vote. So the source pairs the historical 1960 milestone with the modern universal rule. The 1960 extension was the federal milestone — the year Aboriginal peoples were guaranteed the right to vote in federal elections without restriction.

The 1960 milestone followed earlier voting-rights extensions. Discover Canada commits the broader voting-rights chronology to a sequence of named events. "Most Canadians of Asian descent had in the past been denied the vote in federal and provincial elections. In 1948 the last of these, the Japanese-Canadians, gained the right to vote." So 1948 was the year Japanese-Canadians gained the vote. The Aboriginal extension followed twelve years later in 1960. The chronology of expanding suffrage in Canada thus runs through several named milestones: 1916 (Manitoba — first province to grant women the vote); 1918 (most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over granted the federal vote); 1940 (Quebec — last province to grant women the vote); 1948 (Japanese-Canadians gained the vote); 1960 (Aboriginal people granted the vote).

The 1960 extension fits the wider Canadian commitment to expanding rights. Discover Canada commits the Aboriginal voting-rights extension to a broader civic context. The 1960 voting extension was complemented later by the 1982 entrenchment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects all Canadians' fundamental rights. The Charter explicitly recognises Aboriginal Peoples' Rights: "The rights guaranteed in the Charter will not adversely affect any treaty or other rights or freedoms of Aboriginal peoples." So Aboriginal peoples carry both the universal rights of citizenship — including the right to vote — AND the constitutional protection of treaty and other Aboriginal rights. The 1960 vote extension was a foundational step toward this dual recognition. So when the test asks the year Aboriginal peoples were granted the right to vote in federal elections, the source-precise answer is 1960.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the year Aboriginal peoples were granted the federal vote. Discover Canada commits to one year: 1960. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each pick a different year. The first choice is the year Japanese-Canadians gained the vote — not the Aboriginal extension. The second choice is not named in the source for any voting-rights event. The fourth choice is too late — the source places the Aboriginal extension at 1960. Only 1960 — the source's exact named year — matches.