In what year were most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over granted the right to vote in federal elections?

Discover Canada states the answer plainly. The guide writes: In 1918, most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over were granted the right to vote in federal elections. The year the test wants is 1918.

1918 sits inside a tight three-year sequence in Discover Canada's suffrage account. 1916: "Manitoba became the first province to grant voting rights to women." 1917: under Sir Robert Borden's federal government, the right to vote in federal elections was extended "first to nurses at the battle front, then to women who were related to men in active wartime service." Then in 1918, the federal vote opened up to most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over. So 1918 is the year that closed the wartime sequence at the federal level — though not the entire suffrage story.

Some women had to wait longer. Discover Canada notes that "in 1921 Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman MP," and that "due to the work of Thérèse Casgrain and others, Quebec granted women the vote in 1940." So while 1918 is the federal year, provincial reforms continued for more than two further decades. The federal vote and the right to sit in Parliament were both rights that took separate, dated steps to win.

The leadership Discover Canada credits with these gains is the suffrage movement founded by Dr. Emily Stowe, "the first Canadian woman to practise medicine in Canada," alongside "other suffragettes." The 1918 federal extension under Sir Robert Borden's government is the largest single jump in that arc.

The question is testing whether new citizens have remembered Discover Canada's exact line on the federal suffrage extension. The guide commits to 1918 for "most Canadian female citizens aged 21" getting the federal vote. The year matters because it distinguishes the broad federal extension from the earlier wartime-narrow extension of 1917 and from later provincial reforms.

The wrong answer choices each test a near-miss. 1916 is the Manitoba year — provincial, not federal. The 1920s years come after 1918 and do not match what Discover Canada says about most women getting the federal vote. Picking any of them swaps in a different milestone for the one the question is asking about.