On January 27th, 1914, when the then premier, Sir Rodmond Roblin, was asked to give women the “simple justice” of suffrage, he replied by stating that women’s suffrage “would be a retrograde movement ... [and] it will break up the home.” Two years later, on January 28th, 1916, the women of Manitoba became the first to achieve the right to vote at the provincial level. Although there were many contributing factors, the three most critical were suffragist’s presence in current publishings, the persistence of suffragist Nellie McClung, and the dedication of many organizations such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Political Equality League, and Tobias Norris’ Liberal Party.