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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on Emily Murphy ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [and Equal Rights ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Emily Murphy, A Great Canadian
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It was only in this century that women in Canada had equal rights as
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men. But this would never happen if women themselves would not start
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fighting for their rights. One of these women was Emily Murphy and her
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greatest achievement, Emily proved that women are `persons' and therefore
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they have the right to work in any political office. Her life and
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political career lead her to this achievement.
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Emily Gowan Ferguson was born on March 14, 1868 in a village of
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Cookstown. It was Uncle Thomas who was a politician and who influenced
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Emily's interest in politics. At fifteen Emily moved to Toronto and
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attended the Bishop Strachan School for Girls. Emily married Reverend
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Arthur Murphy in 1887 in Anglican church of St. John's in Cookstown and in
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1904 she and her husband moved to Winnipeg. Mrs. Murphy "conducted the
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literary section of the Winnipeg Tribune for a few years before moving to
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Alberta in 1907." In her new home Emily became very active in civic
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affairs especially in law that would improve the rights of women and
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children.
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In 1900's in Alberta any man who, for example, had a farm and was
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married could sell that farm and leave his wife and children walking away
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with the money. Mrs. Murphy was angry that Alberta would allow such
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disgrace. In 1910 Emily was still fighting for the Dower Act "which would
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recognize a married woman's entitlement to a share of the common property
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in a marriage". For the first time the act was turned down, Emily not
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giving up tried very hard until 1911 when Dower Act was passed. "It
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provided that a wife must get a third of her husband's estate, even when he
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did not leave a will." It was a major victory for Emily and also her first
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achievement. This accomplishment not only encouraged women to fight for
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their rights but Emily gained new confidence and encouraged her to fight
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for new suffrage bill. In 1914 Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. McClung joined forces
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and in 1916 after long negotiations a suffrage bill was introduced to the
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legislature. Because of the war now ranging in Europe "there was an even
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greater sense of urgency for women's suffrage, and Murphy - McClung team
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doubled its efforts". The first session in February 24, 1916 Premier
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Sifton read the bill and along with it approximately forty thousand
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signatures. The next day he brought a bill of his own allowing "women a
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status of complete political equality with men in all provincial,
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municipal, and school matters."
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The result of Emily's effort was that on June 19, 1916, Judge Murphy
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became "first woman police magistrate in the British Empire.". In January
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1921 Mrs. Murphy received a letter from a secretary of the Montreal Women's
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Club saying that women "here" want her in the senate. This letter
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encouraged Emily to fight "the question through to a finish ..." In August
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27, 1927 Judge Murphy sent a letter to Ottawa "in a request by the
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governor-general-in- council to the Supreme Court for a ruling on the
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question, `Does the word Persons in Section 24 of the British North America
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Act 1867, include female persons?'" Section 24 was the excuse of Senators
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not letting a woman to be a `person' and therefore not allowing women to
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hold political office. Finally on October 18, 1929 Lord Sankey ruled that
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Women were "Persons and were therefore qualified to become members of the
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Senate in Canada." This was the news all women in Canada would like to
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hear, this was also the greatest achievement made by Emily Murphy who spent
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her life fighting for women's rights. On October 30, 1933 Emily's coffin
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was lowered to the grave, Mrs. Murphy died of diabetes... Emily died of
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diabetes but she was still part of many people who helped her achieving
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what she did. Some of these people were women like Mrs. Nellie McClung,
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Louise McKinney, Henriette Muir Edwards and Irene Parlby. Thanks to Judge
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Murphy Canada was the eighth country which gave women equal rights.
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Emily's accomplishments prove that she was a very hard working women with
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great courage but the most important thing she did not give up on anything
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that is why Mrs. Murphy achieved what she intended to achieve, women's
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freedom in Canada.
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B I B L I O G R A P H Y
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Cleverdon L. Catherine. The Women Suffrage Movement In Canada.
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University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 1975.
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Mander Christine. Emily Murphy: Rebel. Simon & Pierre,
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Toronto, 1985.
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"Women suffrage movement". Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. Funk
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& Wagnalls Inc., 1986
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