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Notes on Emily Murphy
It was while the first provincial legislatur was sitting that Mrs.
Emily Murphy, born in Cookstown, Ontario, in 1868, was educated at Bishop
Strachan's School in Toronto. In 1904 she and her husband moved to
Winnipeg where Mrs. Murphy conducted the literary section of the Winni ....
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.... 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."
((p. 74))
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 Cana ....
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