The history of Alberta, Canadian women featuring The Famous5.

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“Yee Ha!
I am a Wondrous Western Woman!”

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Abbreviated History
Photo Courtesy Glenbow Archives NA-206-27

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September 1, 1905
Princess Louise Caroline Alberta
the 4th daughter of . . .

6. (Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards) The Married Women’s Protective Act assured wives of 1/3 . . .

7. Married Women’s Act prevented sale
of home
without . . .

8. 1915 Prohibition
1915 Prohibition

9. Nellie McClung, Alice Jamieson (Calgary police magistrate), and Emily Murphy

10. British North America Act (something like)
“Women are persons in the matters of pain and penalties but not persons in the matters of rights and privileges.”

11. 1929 Women recognized as “persons”
Irene
Parlby MLA
Henrietta
Muir
Louise McKinney MLA
Nellie McClung MLA
Emily Murphy
Photos, courtesy Famous5 Foundation

12. 1939
World War II

14. 1979 First female Alberta senator Martha Bielish 50 years after. . .

15. 1985 First female Lieutenant Governor;
The Honourable Wilma H. Hunley

16. 2000
Lieutenant Governor;
The Honourable Lois Hole

17. 1995
Nancy Miller
Frances Wright

18. 1999, Calgary

20. 2004

21. 2005

22. How far have we come?

23. Alison Redford
Danielle Smith

24. A Woman Friend is:
• Hard to Find
• Supportive
• Comfortable
• Always lifts you up
• Makes you look better
• Covers your behind

25. An Alberta
chicken lays
5 eggs every week.

26. WWW Rant
How funky is your chicken?
How loose is your goose?
My goose is very loose.
Come on Western Women
And shake your caboose!

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