An excerpt from the Edmonton Journal:
“Friday, the federal government will officially declare the Person’s Case a National Historic Event — on par with such historical milestones as the Battle of the Atlantic and the Winnipeg General Strike.
Rona Ambrose, the minister responsible for the status of women, and Edmonton’s senior federal minister, will be on the University of Alberta campus to unveil a new plaque, recognizing the lawsuit itself as a seminal moment in Canadian history.
The plaque will eventually be installed in Edmonton’s Emily Murphy Park, a few blocks from the house in Garneau where the redoubtable Murphy was living in 1927, when she invited four of her fellow Alberta activists, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, and Louise McKinney to tea. At that tea party, they all agreed to challenge a federal law which said that women couldn’t serve in the Senate, because they weren’t legally considered to be persons.”
