Famous Five Women In Canada

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Sometimes a woman's own quest to change her life can change the lives of women around her and around the world. Famous Five is the story of five normal women, born in the mid-nineteenth century, who migrated to the west with their families to Canada. All were well- known suffragists.The Famous Five broadened their pioneer spirits, taking female impact further, into a bigger circle of group and political issues.
In society at the turn of the 20th century, men and women were not treated equally. Canadian women used arguments, petitions, and organized demonstrations to win what they wanted. On 27 January 1916, the bill was passed. The women of Manitoba were the first in Canada to gain the right to vote. About two months later, similar bills were passed in Saskatchewan and Alberta. British Columbia and Ontario followed suit the next year. Eventually all provinces granted women the vote. Québec
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Women in that province did not gain the vote until 1940. Womens in Canada had won the privilege to vote, yet regardless they didn't still have all of the benefits that men had. In 1916, an occasion occurred that brought up this absence of equality. Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Edwards, and Irene Parlby chose to petition the the prime minister to name a lady to the Senate. The British North America Act stated that qualified "persons" could be appointed to the Senate. Was women a "person" according to the law? The issue was alluded to the courts. The Persons Case dragged on in the courts for a timeframe. In April 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada chose that women were not "persons" thus couldn't be delegated to the Senate in Canada. Judge Murphy the first woman judge and her