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GOLDSTEIN: The controversial beliefs of Canada’s ‘Famous Five’ suffragettes

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Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby were early advocates for women\u0027s rights.

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Among many posthumous honours, for example, there are statues erected to them in Ottawa, Calgary and Winnipeg. What is also true is that at the time the Famous Five and Douglas — the father of Canadian medicare, first leader of the federal NDP, premier of Saskatchewan and judged “the greatest Canadian” in a 2004 CBC national survey — supported eugenics, their beliefs were widely accepted by political and social elites of the day and in that sense, were not controversial, in what at the time would have been called polite society.

 

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