Barbara Smith - The Famous Five: Canadas Crusaders for Womens Rights

Aberhart, William,

Alberta Legislative Assembly, the,

Alberta Married Womens Home Protection Act, the,

Alberta Military Representation Act, the,

Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, the,

Bennett, Robert,

Bijou Theatre, the,

Borden, Robert,

British North America (BNA) Act, the,

Budd, Gertrude E.,

Canadian Association of Child Protection, the,

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the,

Canadian Commonwealth Federation, the,

Canadian Council of Child Welfare,
the,

Canadian Womens Press Club, the,

Community of Property Bill, the,

Cross, Charles W., the,

Darling, Charles John,

Doherty, Charles,

Dominion Social Service Council, the,

Dower Act, the,

Duke, Henry Edward, Lord Merrivale,

Edmonton, AB,

Edwards, Henrietta Louise Muir,

books by,

and career as artist,

and family,

and Indigenous peoples,

and legal research,

life, death and commemorations of,

and magazines for working women,

and the NCWCs Legal Committee,

and Oliver Edwards,

and the Senate,

and the War Committee,

Equal Suffrage Club, the,

eugenics,

Famous Five, the, . See also Jamieson, Alice

and alcohol and drugs, (s ee also Murphy, Emily: The Black Candle )

commemorations of,

and eugenics ( see eugenics)

first attributed as,

and Newton Wesley Rowell, ( see also , Rowell, Newton Wesley)

official petitions by,

Federated Womens Institutes of Canada (FWIC), the. See Womens Institutes (WI), the

feminism,

Ferguson, William,

Forget, Amde-Emmanual,

Governor General of Canada, the,

official duties of,

Great Depression, the,

Greenaway, Thomas,

Greenfield, Herbert,

Hind, Cora,

Hoodless, Adelaide Hunter,

House of Commons of Canada, the,

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), the,

Indigenous rights,

Interpretation Act of 1850, the,

Jackson, Eardley,

Jamieson, Alice,

Janey Canuck. See Murphy, Emily

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), the,

King, William Lyon Mackenzie,

Lady Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon,

Lapointe, Ernest,

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid,

League of Nations, the,

Liquor Act, the,

Local Council of Women,

London, England,

Lougheed, Sir James,

Lymburn, John F.,

MacDonald, Sir John A.,

MacMurchy, Helen,

Macphail, Agnes,

Manitoba Grain Growers, the,

Married Womens Property Act, the,

Married Womens Relief Act, the,

McClung, Nellie Letitia Mooney,

and activism,

and career as author,

and career in politics,

life, death and commemorations
of,

as member of the Liberal Party,

and 1938 speech in Senate foyer,

and Wes McClung,

McKinney, Louise Crummy

as Alberta MLA,

and career as a teacher,

and James McKinney,

life, death and commemorations of,

as member of WCTU,

and temperance,

and the United Church of Canada

Meighen, Arthur,

Minimum Wage for Women Act, the,

Montreal Womens Club, the,

Montreal Womens Printing Office,
the,

Murphy, Emily Gowan Ferguson

and Arthur Murphy,

and The Black Candle ,

books by,

and career as a police magistrate,

and Date and Nut Loaf (recipe),

and the Dower Act,

and family,

and Indigenous peoples,

and Janey Canuck, ,

life, death and commemorations of,

and 1927 Letter to Governor General,

and 1927 Petition to Supreme Court of Canada,

and petition to the JCPC,

and public service,

and the Senate,

National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC),

Legal Committee of,

Newcombe, Edmund,

Non-Partisan League,

Pankhurst, Emmeline,

Parlby, Mary Irene Marryat

as Alberta MLA,

and the Alix Country Womens
Club,

and career in politics,

and family,

and feminism,

life, death and commemorations of,

as Minister of Cooperation,

and philanthropy and activism,

and the NCWCs Legal Committee,

and the UFA and UFWA,

and Walter Parlby,

Persons Case, the,

GG award and Persons Day,

Price, Roberta MacAdams,

Proclamation of the Constitution Act, the,

Prohibition, . See also temperance movement, the

right to vote, the. See womens suffrage

Riley, Daniel Edward,

Roblin, Rodmond,

Rowell, Newton Wesley, ,

Sanderson, Lancelot,

Sankey, John (Lord Chancellor),

Saskatchewan Grain Growers, the,

Saskatchewan Homestead Act, the,

Saskatchewan Provincial Equal Franchise Board,

Scott, John (Justice),

Senate of Canada, ,
107,

women in the Senate, ( see also , Murphy, Emily; Persons
Case, the)

Smith, Mary Ellen,

Social Credit Party, the,

Social Service Council of Canada, the,

Stowe, Emily,

Supreme Court of Canada, the,

Supreme Court Act, the,

temperance movement, the,

Tomlin, Thomas,

Toronto Suffrage Association (formerly the Toronto Womens Literary Club), the

United Farm Women of Alberta (UFWA), the,

United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), the,

Victorian Order of Nurses, the

War Committee, the,

Willard, Frances,

Wilson, Cairine,

Winnipeg Political Equality League,
the,

Womens Baptist Missionary Society
East, the,

Womens Canadian Club of Edmonton, the,

Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the,

and the Famous Five,

and Louise McKinneys resolutions,

and temperance,

WCTU pledge,

Womens Enfranchisement Association, the,

Womens Institutes (WI), the,

womens rights, . See also Dower Act, the; feminism; womens suffrage

womens suffrage,

Working Girls Club (later the Working Womens Club), the,

Yeomans, Dr. Amelia,

Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA), the,

The Famous Five

Canadas Crusaders for Womens Rights

BARBARA SMITH

For my great-granddaughter,
Cait Deborah Marie

Copyright 2019 Barbara Smith

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Cover images LR: Louise McKinney, GA : NA 5395-5; Irene Parlby, GA: NA 2204-12; Emily Murphy, PAA: A 3355; Henrietta Edwards, GA: NA 2607-7; and Nellie McClung, SA 1981-023-00 4A

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