Persons
Sunday, 18 October 2009 | 22:39
Person: n. a human being regarded as an individual. (Oxford English Dictionary
Eighty years ago today, thanks to Winnipegger Nellie McClung and 4 other feisty femmales, women in Canada became legally recognised as “persons” – giving them the right to do such exotic things as vote, work, attend university, retain individual rights even after marriage… and to call themselves human beings.
Photo: cdncouncilarchives.ca
