The Guild was renamed the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association in 1883, with Jessie (McEwen) Turnbull as its first president.
Fired with determination to bring new life to the movement, she founded the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association (DWEA) in 1889.
She quoted one from "Pollie" at length,[6] Giving women the ballot would not fail to have a beneficial effect on the future of Canada.
She will then see to it that we have laws to amend the purity and happiness of her home ... Canadian future statesmen,—by having less temptation to contend with, would become more intelligent, for believe me, Kit, one half the men—politically speaking—are densely ignorant.
[7] At this stage the suffragettes were simply claiming the right to vote since they paid taxes and could bring new ideas to politics.
[10] Stowe and her daughter Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857–1943), the first woman to graduate from a Canadian medical school, organized a much publicized "mock parliament".
[3] Despite their efforts, the DWEA was not successful in advancing the cause of women's suffrage in Canada at either the Federal or Provincial levels.