page_title: Nellie McClung
section_title: Bibliography
hierarchical_section_title: Nellie McClung / Bibliography
caption_attribution_description: English: Nellie Mooney McClung holding headline about "Persons Case", Famous Five statue by Canadian artist Barbara Paterson, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: Nellie Letitia McClung, was a Canadian author, social activist, suffragette, and politician. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. Her great causes were women's suffrage and the temperance. It was largely through her efforts that in 1916 Manitoba became the first province to give women the right to vote and to run for public office. Nellie McClung was at the forefront of the Suffragist movement in Canada. Through her social justice activism, the issues of temperance, anti-war, Labor and Dower rights were among her most important contributions.
  In 1927, McClung and four other women: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby who together came to be known as The Famous Five launched "the Persons Case," contending that women could be "qualified persons," therefore eligible to sit in the Senate. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the current law did not recognize women as such. However, the case was won upon appeal to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council—the court of last resort for Canada at that time.
caption: In Famous Five statue, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
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