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This 3 page paper discusses the "Famous Five" Canadian women, their contributions, and why they are important. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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looks at five important Canadian women, and why its important to learn about them. Discussion The women under discussion are known as the "Famous Five," and they are justly famous
for their fight for womens rights. The five are "Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy and Irene Parlby" and together they brought what is now known
as the "Persons Case" (Lewis, 2006). "Persons" is not a name, as we might think, but refers to the subject matter of the case, which is whether or not
Canadian women were to be considered persons before the law. (This is 1929, by the way; although it seems like it must be the Middle Ages.) The history of
the Persons Case is as follows: the Dominion of Canada was created in 1867 under the auspices of the British North American Act, or BNA (Munroe, 2006). The BNA
Act, like most legislation, used "persons" to refer "to more than one person," and he to refer to one person" (Munroe, 2006). Under an 1876 British common law ruling,
Canadian women were described in this way: "Women are persons in matters of pains and and penalties, but are not persons in matters of rights and privileges" (Munroe, 2006).
In 1916, Emily Murphy, a social activist in Alberta, was appointed the "first woman police magistrate" in the province, only to have her appointment challenged "on the grounds
that women were not persons under the BNA Act" (Munroe, 2006). But in 1917, the Alberta Supreme Court "ruled that women were persons" (Munroe, 2006). Since that ruling
applied only within Alberta, "Emily Murphy allowed her name to be put forward as a candidate for the Senate, at the federal level of government" (Munroe, 2006). The Canadian
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