Emily G. Murphy (1868-1933), instigator of the Persons Case, writer, and first woman magistrate in the British Empire. She pioneered married women's rights, was National President of the Canadian Women's Press Club 1913-1920, vice-president of the National Council of Women and first president of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada.

"Having done all -- stand.' We lose so much, both in private and public life, by receding from the ground we have won, either from indolence or some other cause." -Emily G. Murphy