The Honourable Pam Parsons, Minister Responsible for Women and Gender Equality, will bring greetings at Persistence Theatre’s Votes for Women 100 Season Launch. The event will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, April 27) at 10:30 a.m. at Canadian AV, 22 Pearl Place, St. John’s.

In 2021, through a series of projects under the banner of Votes for Women 100, Persistence Theatre will commemorate 100 years since women in St. John’s first achieved the right to vote in municipal elections. In doing so, they became the first women in Newfoundland and Labrador to achieve this right.

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