The "Valiant Five" Woman is a Person too
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Channel: Shiran De Silva · 2014 · People & Blogs
Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards, Famous Five statue, Parliament Hill, Ottawa The Valiant Five Life of women can be just not taken seriously by the men of the historical past. None of the five became senators; the first female senator was Cairine Reay Wilson, appointed four months after the ruling. Nearly 80 years later, on 8 October 2009, the Senate voted to make the five the first "honorary senators".
