In reference to women’s suffragists, activist Nellie McClung states, “Disturbers are never popular—nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action—no matter how grateful they may have been afterwards for its kind services!” The achievement of women’s suffrage, first realized in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in 1916, was truly a humanitarian “service” done unto Canada, but what has brought about its tumultuous realization must be attributed not only to singular disturbances. Women’s suffrage was a long fought war in its own right, whose success was brought about through first, the underlying philosophy of maternal feminism; second, the increasingly active roles women took on in the public sphere through women’s organizations; and third, the singular “disturbances”—the individual women who had well established themselves in their respective fields and served as the collective feminine voice.