On this day in 1925 women in Newfoundland and Labrador gained the right to vote and hold public office.

That right was won largely through the tireless work of the suffragist movement and Armine Nutting Gosling, an Ontario native who came to Newfoundland to teach.

She became active in politics after WWI, leading the Women’s Party which ran two candidates in the 1925 municipal election in St. John’s—the first in Newfoundland allowing women the right to vote.

PerSIStence Theatre is working to erect a statue of Gosling in St. John’s, and recently received provincial funding to make it a reality.