RVA- View of Emily Murphy Park Traditional Geocache
RVA- View of Emily Murphy Park
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Emily Murphy cache takes you to the north bank of the North Saskatchewan River. This location is near Victoria golf course. Just across the river from Emily Murphy Park, which carries the name of a well-known women’s rights activist, nestled in the beautiful River Valley.
This cache leads you to a lookout that showcases Emily Murphy park across the river. Emily Murphy was a well-known women’s rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law. Murphy is known as one of the "The Famous Five" (also called "The Valiant Five")—a group of Canadian women's rights activists that also included Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby. In 1927, the women launched the "Persons Case," contending that women could be "qualified persons" eligible to sit in the Senate. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that they were not. However, upon appeal to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council, the court of last resort for Canada at that time, the women won their case. "Nothing ever happens by chance," Emily Murphy liked to say, "Everything is pushed from behind." After twelve years of pushing, the doors of the Canadian Senate finally opened to women, but it was too late for Emily Murphy to enter. She died on October 27, 1933.
For more information: https://www.historica-dominion.ca/content/heritage-minutes/emily-murphy
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