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the significance of the war time election act, is that women related to oversea soldiers finally got the right to vote. Borden enforced this law in 1917 because of the conscription crisis.


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Women were given the right to vote if they had a male family members serving overseas, that is, in the war, or had a male family member who died in service.

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