WOW FACTOR!
Know who the “Famous Five” were. Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Henrietta Muir Edwards were the impetus for the Persons Case of 1929, a decision by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It found that women are persons and eligible to hold appointed or elected offices. This overturned a prior decision by Canada’s own Supreme Court, which unanimously stated that women are not persons and not eligible for appointment to the Senate.
The five suffragettes have monuments dedicated to them in Ottawa and Calgary, and their picture is on a Canadian 50-dollar bill.
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