Aftermath
Although the ruling was to be of crucial importance for Canadian women in the long term, it did not result in Emily Murphy being appointed to the Senate. However, it was only a year later, on February 15, 1930, that the first woman, Cairine Reay Wilson, was appointed to the Senate.
Nearly 80 years later, in October 2009, the Senate voted to name the Five, posthumously, Canada's first "honorary senators."
Read more about this topic: Edwards V. Canada (Attorney General)
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“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)