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Monster Essays - Notes on Emily Murphy
Notes on Emily Murphy
It was while the first provincial legislatur was sitting that Mrs.
Emily Murphy, born in Cookstown, Ontario, in 1868, was educated at Bishop
Strachan's School in Toronto. In 1904 she and her husband moved to
Winnipeg where Mrs. Murphy conducted the literary section of the Winnipeg
Tribune for a few years before moving to Alberta in 1907. In her new home
Mrs. Murphy came very active in civic affairs, especially in the attainment
of las for the betterment of conditions for women and children. On June 13,
1916 she was appointed a police magistrate for the City of Edmonton, the
first woman in the British empire to hold suc....
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