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Originally posted by NeonPi
Myself, I would chose Nellie McClung / The Famous Five, who back in Oct 1930 challenged a Canadian Supreme Court ruling that said that under the law, women were not persons, therefore could not be appointed as Senators.

On Oct 29, 1930, the Privy Council in London (Canada would only have final authority on rulings after the Staute of Westminister in 1931) ruled that indeed, women were persons under the law.

As you can probably tell, I did my final year paper for Canadian history on this particular subject!

Unfortunately, my #1 choice isn't quite Canadian - Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland but spent years in Nova Scotia and Ontario, where he developed the telephone. Without the phone, there would be no faxes, no email, and no Internet - imagine how different things would be!

Just my $0.02 cents ....
Shala

Emily Murphy (who is part of the "Famous Five") went to my high school back in the 1880s!!!!!