Canadian Observance held on October 18.
Persons Day celebrates a 1929 legal victory in
Alberta, under which five pioneering
sufragettes won the right for
women to be recognized as people (hence "persons" day) under the law. Prior to this, women's legal status in
Canada was as a man's
chattel.
The
Famous Five who pressed the case, and won:
Henrietta (Muir) Edwards,
Nellie McClung,
Louise McKinney,
Emily Murphy and
Irene Parlby.