On Monday, 18 October, Canadian women will celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the day in 1929 when the British Privy Council declared women to be persons under Canadian law. (The Canadian Supreme Court had denied the petition.)Whew! eh? 
The legal battle had been carried forward since 1916 by the women now known as the Famous Five: Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, and Henrietta Muir Edwards.
(audra, somewhere you have a wonderful link to sources about the Famous Five and their successors, but I can't find it. Can you add it?)
There is lots to say about the Famous Five, and not all of it good, given that they were (as we all finally are) women of their time, ahead of it in many ways but very much of it in others.
Still: great to be an official Person, eh, grils? 
If you are in Toronto, the Older Women's Network will be holding a TEA! in celebration of the anniversary.
Time: 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Place: 115 the Esplanade
Tickets/admission: $10
Information: 416 214-1518
The Raging Grannies promise an appearance.
(I think that that Esplanade address is the co-op that the OWN managed to push through as the last co-op built after Mike Harris's victory in 1995. He stopped everybody else, but he did not stop OWN.)
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posted 15 October 2004 05:38 PM
