Notes On Emily Murphy

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Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but
misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a
troublesome husband too."

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Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some
shadowy future, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Murphy joind forces to call upon
Sifton on March 2 and ask that a suffrage bill be introduced at that very
session. Other cabinet members were also interviewed. The local press
account does not reveal how the gentlemen fared at this meeting but the
premier's comment upon its conclusion was simply, "Mrs. McClung and Mrs.
Murphy are very determined women."

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The passage of time and the exercise of political power whetted rather
than dulled the appetite of Alberta women. Marshalled by Judge Murphy,
five veterans of the suffrage campaing fced the conservative stonghold of
the Red Chamber at Ottawa, the Supreme Court of Canada, and even the august
Privy Council in London to prove that women ...

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