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The Wartime Elections Act enfranchised over 2,000 Canadian nurses serving in France, who could vote in the 1917 election. Polling stations were set up at camps and hospitals overseas to facilitate the nursing sister vote.

Black and white photograph. Nursing sisters in their uniforms line up at poll tables to vote near a tent. — (William Rider-Rider, DND, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3194224.)

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