On 23 January 1953 a dramatization of Lilly's Story was broadcast on CBC
through Robert Weaver
, the producer of the program Canadian Short Stories. The broadcast generated controversy. Newspapers in Montreal reported that...
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18 October 1929: The Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy...
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 511
White, Anne. “Persons Case: A Struggle for Legal Definition & Personhood”. Alberta History, Vol.
47
, No. 3, 1 June 1999– 2024, pp. 2-9.
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February 1930: Four months after the Persons Case brought...
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February 1930
Four months after the Persons Case brought before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
in England in October 1929, Cairine Wilson
became the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate
.
“Women’s Right to Vote in Canada”. Paarliament of Canada: A to Z Index: Women, 1 Feb. 1999.
“Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson”. Library and Archives Canada: Printing and Publishing: Celebrating Women’s Achievements: First Women in Provincial and Territorial Legislatures.
