ABSTRACT

On 7 August 1921, Christabel, Betty and Grace arrived on the steamer Magantic in Montreal, Canada en route to Victoria, on Vancouver Island, where Emmeline was living in a rented one-storey house, 1428 Beach Drive, Oak Bay. None of the wild fears that anti-suffragists had raised when women got the vote had come about, Christabel insisted, and in Quebec, where women still did not have the provincial vote, the situation would right itself in time. Rallying wonderfully in the warm Californian sunshine, the renowned British suffragette was courted not only by the press. Christabel turned down offers to play herself in a film, and ‘was absolutely against it’, much to Grace’s regret. Christabel went on to explain how she had had great experiences, inward rather than outward, and been unhappy. Christabel probably told her mother that she had heard from Mrs Lawrence when, in early summer 1922, she, Grace and Betty finally arrived at Charles Street West.