Emily Murphy: Revised: Canadians (Paperback)

Emily Ferguson was born in Ontario and educated in Toronto where she met her husband, Minister Arthur Murphy.  Together they travelled through rural Ontario and industrial England.  These travels aroused Emily's social conscience, which she expressed through her famous Janey Canuck books.

 

When the Murphy's moved to Manitoba and later Edmonton, she continued writing and became involved in reform movements.  Her first political efforts resulted in the passage of Alberta's Dower Act of 1911.  She would later be appointed a judge in Alberta, making her not only Canada's first woman magistrate, but the first female magistrate in the British Empire.