Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

Monday, 18 October 2010

Happy Persons Day!

Thanks to five Canadian women (only 4 are pictured here), women are now considered to be people.  After their claim - that women should be considered as persons - was rejected by Canada's supreme court in 1928, they took their fight to the high court in Britain.  On 18 October 1929, it was officially decided that yes, indeed, women were people!  In Canada, 'Persons Day' is celebrated each 18 October.  Happy Persons Day eveyone!

Nelly McClung

Henrietta Muir Edwards and Louise McKinney

Emily Murphy