The Persons Case

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Across
  1. 2. The great successes of the early women's movement came from this part of Canada
  2. 5. A strong supporter of women's rights was Nellie _____
  3. 7. Wilson was nicknamed after this famous cultural icon
  4. 10. The only female MP from 1921 to 1935
  5. 11. This council had the final say in the Persons Case
  6. 12. Wilson was known for this
  7. 13. It was assumed that women would vote for ______
  8. 15. The right to vote and stand in office
  9. 16. The exclusion of women from public officers was "a relic of days more ______ than ours"
  10. 17. According to King, Murphy was "a little too ________"
Down
  1. 1. Women in Canada became "persons" under the eyes of the law after a decision made here
  2. 3. The first woman police magistrate in the British Empire
  3. 4. After World War One, the government refused to appoint a woman to this legislative body
  4. 6. In nineteen-twenty-_____, women became "persons" in the office holding sense
  5. 7. Women first entered provincial cabinets in Alberta and this province
  6. 8. The Supreme Court of Canada declared that women were not "_______"
  7. 9. The "Famous ____" helped women gain the right to run for office
  8. 12. The first province where women had the vote
  9. 14. The first national election where all women could vote was in nineteen-twenty-____
  10. 18. King appointed Wilson because she was bilingual, Liberal, and a _____