The Okotoks Museum and Archives is celebrating 100 years of Women's Right to Vote. An exhibit that celebrates the achievements that have happened since women being given the right to vote.

On Saturday January 23,  the Museum and Archives held the opening reception for the exhibit.

Katarina Hoven did a lot of the research for the exhibit.

She said that it is set up as a Tea Parlor because that is where woman held their secret meetings during the suffrage movement.

"The exhibit is set up with information about the suffrage movement in Canada, world wide, and specifically Okotoks," Hoven said.

The information found around the exhibit has to do with the achievements made since women were given the right to vote, from the first woman voted into town office, to the first mayor.


Hoven said that the first woman voted into office in Okotoks was not into a town Councillor position.

"Quite early on Okotoks voted a woman into public office, Beatrice Wyndahm was elected as a school trustee in 1919, 3 years after woman were allowed to vote."

Hoven said that looking at women's history is important because it is 50% of the story.

"I think that the more we can learn about women's place in history, the better picture of our history we will have," Hoven said.

100 Years of Women's Right to Vote exhibit runs until April 30th.

 

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