Angela Maynard was only ten years old when women in Canada were given the right to vote.
The 91-year-old Princeton woman recalls voting in every election – save for one year when she was prevented from leaving her house by a blizzard – and 2019 is no exception.
Not only is Maynard one of Canada’s oldest voters, she may be the only person to ever vote from the cab of a Ford F-150.
Maynard and her son Kim turned out to the advance polls at the Princeton Legion Monday. As she is recovering from a broken hip, shoulder and wrist, she was not able to leave the vehicle and negotiate her way into the facility.
A quick call to Elections Canada was put through, and the returning officers were given permission to take a ballot box and ballot outside so that Maynard could have her say.
“If I don’t give my opinion by voting I can’t complain about anything,” she told The Spotlight.
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