Nellie McClung: The Reluctant Warrior

Women were not allowed to vote, own property or sit on the Senate. Without this power, how could any of the outdated laws be changed?

Together with several women, McClung was a founding member of the Political Equality League and a tireless speaker for its speaker’s bureau.  She crossed the province of Manitoba many times, using her wit and humor to drive home at every theatre and community hall her message of justice for women.  McClung remained allied with the cause of women’s rights all her life and in 1929, she was one of the “famous five” or the “valiant five” who battled in the courts and at parliament to have women declared “persons” under the law.