Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby and Henrietta Muir Edwards changed the future for all Canadians.
“The exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours.” Lord Sankey, October 18, 1929

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We recognize Persons Day in Canada is October 18
It marks the day in 1929 when the historic decision to include women in the legal definition of “persons”.
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