£76 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III 
in Canada. Energetic propaganda in New Brunswick in 
1909 met with an overwhelming defeat in the Legislature. 
In the case of the Provinces there prevails on the whole 
manhood suffrage. In the case of Quebec the suffrage for 
the Lower House of seventy-four members elected each, as 
usual everywhere in Canada, for one district is regulated by 
$8. 179-83 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, under which the 
franchise is given to male persons, being British subjects by 
birth or naturalization, who hold one of various qualifica- 
tions, viz. owners or occupants of immovable property of 
the value of $300 in any municipality which is entitled to 
return one or more members to the Assembly, and of $200 
in other municipalities ; tenants paying an annual rent for 
immovable property of $30 or $20 in such municipalities, pro- 
vided the real value of the property according to the valuation 
rule is $300 or $200 respectively ; teachers in an institution 
under the control of school commissioners or trustees : 
retired farmers or proprietors receiving a rent in money or 
kind valued at $100; farmers’ sons working for at least a 
year on their father’s farm, if the farm is of such value as 
to qualify them as electors if divided between them and 
their father as co-proprietors in equal shares ; proprietors’ 
sons residing with their father or mother on similar con- 
ditions ; navigators and fishermen and owners of real 
property, boats, nets, fishing-gear and tackle, or of shares 
in a registered ship which together are of the actual value 
of at least $150; priests, rectors, vicaires, missionaries 
and ministers of any religious denomination; and persons 
who have salary or wages or revenues of $300 a year, and 
piece-workers who receive $300 a year. It is difficult to see 
why manhood suffrage is not adopted. 
The franchise in Nova Scotia is regulated by chapter 4, 
ss. 3-6 of the Revised Statutes, 1900. The requirements are : 
twenty-one years of age, a British subject by birth or 
naturalization, and either assessment as owner of real pro- 
perty to the value of $150 or of personal property, or of 
real and personal property to the value of $300, or possession 
of such property with exemption from taxation, or a yearly 
tenancy of real property of the value of $150, or being the son of