to the Brazilian parliament Marie Rennotte (1852–1942) – Native Belgian, naturalized Brazilian teacher and lawyer who founded the Aliança Paulista pelo Sufrágio Feminino with Carrie Chapman Catt's help Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995) – Brazilian writer, poet, and lawyer; challenged the constitutionality of the ban on women voting in Brazil Maria Werneck de Castro (1909–1993) – lawyer, militant communist, feminist, and supporter of women's suffrage Bulgaria Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva (1878–1955) – teacher, writer, and one of the most active women's rights activists of her era Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – reform pedagogue, women's rights activist Julia Malinova (1869–1953) – women's rights activist Canada Edith Archibald (1854–1936) – writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax Francis Marion Beynon (1884–1951) – Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist Laura Borden (1861–1940) – wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada Henrietta Muir Edwards (1849–1931) – women's rights activist and reformer Helena Gutteridge (1879–1960) – first woman elected to city council in Vancouver Gertrude Harding (1889–1977) – one of the highest-ranking and longest-lasting members of the Women's Social and Political Union Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator and social activist Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – politician, author, social activist, member of The Famous Five Louise McKinney (1868–1931) – politician, women's rights activist, Alberta legislature Emily Murphy (1868–1933) – women's rights activist, jurist, author Irene Parlby (1868–1965) – women's farm leader, activist, politician Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – educator and member of the executive of the Local Council of Women of Halifax Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician Emily Stowe (1831–1903) – doctor, campaigned for the country's first medical college for women Jennie Fowler Willing (1834–1916) – educator, author, preacher, social reformer, suffragist Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896–1981) – leader of the Quebec suffragist movement Chile Celinda Arregui (1864–1941) – feminist politician, writer, teacher, suffrage activist Henrietta Müller (1846–1906) – Chilean-British women's rights activist and theosophist Marta Vergara (1898–1995) – co-founder of MEMch; Inter-American Commission of Women delegate China Lin Zongsu (1878–1944) – founder of the first suffrage organization in China Colombia Lucila Rubio de Laverde (1908–1970) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia) María Currea Manrique (1890–1985) –