Emily Murphy (The Canadians)

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Emily Murphy was once considered one of Canada’s great feminists. A woman of tremendous wit, versatility and compassion, her career included journalism, social reform, politics and the law.

Emily Ferguson was once born in Ontario and educated in Toronto where she met her husband, Minister Arthur Murphy. Together they travelled through rural Ontario and industrial England. These travels aroused Emily’s social judgment of right and wrong, which she expressed through her famous Janey Canuck books.

When the Murphy’s moved to Manitoba and later Edmonton, she continued writing and became involved in reform movements. Her first political efforts resulted within the passage of Alberta’s Dower Act of 1911. She would later be appointed a pass judgement on in Alberta, making her not only Canada’s first woman magistrate, but the first female magistrate within the British Empire.

In 1921, Murphy publicly questioned the law that kept women from the Senate. Women were not regarded as persons by law, and could due to this fact not turn out to be Senators. Her tireless campaign on this “Persons Case” led to women’s legal recognition as “persons” and their eligibility to the Senate. Murphy herself was once never appointed to the Senate, but her work in all facets of law and social reform prepared the ground for generations of Canadian women.

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