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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 [x]Class Notes [Notes on Book about ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Emily Murphy ]
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[ ]11-12 [ ]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:929 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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((p. 67))
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It was while the first provincial legislatur was sitting that Mrs.
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Emily Murphy, born in Cookstown, Ontario, in 1868, was educated at Bishop
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Strachan's School in Toronto. In 1904 she and her husband moved to
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Winnipeg where Mrs. Murphy conducted the literary section of the Winnipeg
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Tribune for a few years before moving to Alberta in 1907. In her new home
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Mrs. Murphy came very active in civic affairs, especially in the attainment
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of las for the betterment of conditions for women and children. On June
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13, 1916 she was appointed a police magistrate for the City of Edmonton,
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the first woman in the British empire to hold such a post. Under the
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[enname "Janey Canuck," Mrs. Murphy wrote many books and articles mirroring
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western life, some of which found their way into both British and American
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publications.
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The Rutherford government was framing a law to give women certain dower
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rights, and Mrs. Murphydisapproved of some of its provisions. Single-handed
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she went before the (( p. 68 )) committee on legislation and argued with
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such success that the bill, when passed, was substantially as she wished.
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It was on this occasion that Mrs. Murphy, most hapily married to the
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Reverend Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but misinformed
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pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a troublesome
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husband too."
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((p. 71))
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Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some
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shadowy future, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Murphy joind forces to call upon
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Sifton on March 2 and ask that a suffrage bill be introduced at that very
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session. Other cabinet members were also interviewed. The local press
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account does not reveal how the gentlemen fared at this meeting but the
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premier's comment upon its conclusion was simply, "Mrs. McClung and Mrs.
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Murphy are very determined women."
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((p. 74))
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The passage of time and the exercise of political power whetted rather
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than dulled the appetite of Alberta women. Marshalled by Judge Murphy,
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five veterans of the suffrage campaing fced the conservative stonghold of
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the Red Chamber at Ottawa, the Supreme Court of Canada, and even the august
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Privy Council in London to prove that women are "persons" in the eyes of
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the law, and consequently entitled to membership in the federal senate.
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The Alberta government, alone of the nine provinces, loyally supported the
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women in this eventful struggle, sending its attorney-general, Hon. J. F.
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Lymburn, to London to assist Hon. N. W. Rowell in pleading their cause.
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For the further emancipation which was an outcome of the successful
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termination of the Persons Case, the women of all Canada owe a debt of
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gratitude to (( p.75 )) those of this prairie province who wove reality out
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of a dream of complete political equality.
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- Sifton government appointed Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Jamieson to act as
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police magistrates. (Jamieson was appointed in December, Murphy in June)
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- (p. 141) Murphy is fighting to prove that women are "persons" in section
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24 British North America Act. "In the minds of most women there never
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existed much doubt about whether or not they were persons, legal minds
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found this point highly contentious until that day in Oct. 1929 when Lord
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Chancellor Sankey, reading the opinion of the highest tribunal in the
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British empire, concluded that women are "persons" in the eyes of the law
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and hence entitled to be summoned to the Canadian senate.
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- (p. 142) Mrs. Murphy was appointed as police magistrate to preside over
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the newly created Women's Court in Edmonton. The first day she was accused
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(by the defendent) of not being a "person" under the British North America
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Act and had no right to be holding court anyway. The judge held her peace,
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relying upon the provincial government to prove, if necessary, that she was
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a "peron."
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- (p. 143) the delegates from all eight of the provinces represented
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unanimously endorsed a resolution requesting Prime Minister Borden to
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appoint a woman to the senate. Many other women's organizations soon
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followed suit, including the powerful National Council of Women.
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- (p. 143) In January 1921 the Montreal Women's Club, under the leadership
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of Mrs. John Scott, abandoned the vague request for appointment of "a
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woman" and asked Prime Minister Arthur Meighen point-blank to name Mrs.
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Emily Murphy to the senate as soon as there should be a vacancy. Mr.
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Meighen courteously said no, for the law officers of the Crown had advised
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him that the nomination of a woman was impossible. Notwithstanding the
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rebuff, Mrs. Murphy was pleased that she, a westerne, had been singled out
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as the candidate of a group of easterners.
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!!!!!!!
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***** We women here want you in the Sente because you are a woman and a
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worthy representative. In fact, in all of Canada, we feel there is no
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other to equal Judge Murphy for the appointment... With very best wishes
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and trusting it will not be too long before you are notified that you are
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going to be `laid on the shelf' with the other Senators, but hoping of
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course, that you will not be too quiet, I am, Sincerely and affectionately,
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Gertrude E. Budd.
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***** - this letter have been the spark that kindled Mrs. Murphy's
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determination to fight the question through to a finish. !!!!--
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(p. 144) Over eight years were to pass before her careful strategy and
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inexhaustible patience triumped over legal technicalities to
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remove another barrier blocking the political progress of women.
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- (p. 144) Prime Minister Mr. Meighen felt the pressure of public opinion
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sufficiently to promise during
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