Photo Chronicle A spotlight on 1920-1997
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King voting in the first general election after the passage of the Dominion Elections Act. This Act marked the beginning of the modern age of electoral administration in Canada.
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In this section you will find the complete text of Chapter 3 of the book A History of the Vote in Canada. Chapter 3 covers the period from 1920 to 1997, while chapters 1 and 2 cover the periods 1758 to 1866 and 1867 to 1919 respectively.

You can either read this section on-line or download it in PDF format. The on-line version has seven subsections, which are then divided into various subjects. The PDF version has the entire text in a single file, which will make it easier to do a key-word search.

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