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	The Canadian Encyclopedia
		Most Canadians, if they have heard of Irene Parlby, know her as one of the "Famous Five." This group of five Alberta women were plaintiffs in a court case that argued women were indeed "persons" under the British North America Act and thus entitled to be named to the Canadian Senate.
		Irene Parlby was chosen to campaign as the UFA candidate in the constituency of Lacombe.
		Irene Parlby's role in the UFA government was significant, despite having no department to run.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A2142 (937 words)

	Parlby, Mary Irene
		In 1916 Parlby was elected president of the newly formed United Farm Women of Alberta and became actively involved in the agrarian movement.
		Parlby entered public life in 1921 when she was elected to the Alberta legislature as member for Lacombe in the UNITED FARMERS OF ALBERTA government.
		Parlby was a reluctant politician, preferring the tranquillity of her garden in Alix, Alta to the rough and tumble of the legislature, but she was popular among her rural constituents and was re-elected in 1926 and again in 1930.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC866899 (366 words)

	Irene Marryat Parlby - Celebrating Women's Achievements / Women in Canadian Legislatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irene Parlby was born in England in 1868, the eldest child of a British Army Colonel.
		The ranching life to which Irene and her husband became accustomed, changed rapidly with the arrival of waves of immigrants and the railway.
		Throughout her long political career, Irene Parlby was an idealistic and eloquent advocate for the betterment of rural Canadian women and children.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-307-e.html (656 words)

	The Reluctant Politician: The Story of Irene Parlby
		By telling the story of English immigrant Irene Parlby and her struggle to improve the lives of turn-of-the-20th century Alberta farm women, we see how Parlby's steadfast concern took her far from her beloved homestead in Northern Alberta, all the way to the Privy Council in London, England.
		Irene Parlby joined four other prominent Alberta women, Emily Murphy, Henrietta Edwards, Nellie McClung, and Louise McKinney in pushing for Section 24 of the British North American Act to recognize women as "Persons." The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not persons under that Act and therefore, could not vote, among other things.
		Although retired from elected politics, Parlby continued to be a popular speaker on radio and in person, where she continued with her message of cooperation and her vision of a better world.
	www.whitepinepictures.com /seeds/iii/35 (495 words)

	History of Education
		In 1935, Irene Parlby became the first woman to be granted an honorary degree from the University of Alberta.
		Parlby was one of the "famous five" Albertan women (together with Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, and Louise McKinney) who successfully launched the "Persons Case.", one of the most important moments in the history of Canadian women.
		Irene Parlby died in Alix, Alberta, in 1965, at the age of 97.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1935parlby.html (517 words)

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		Irene was president of a similar company, the United Farm Women of Alberta.
		Irene Parlby was the second woman to become a provincial Cabinet minister.
		Irene Parlby was 97 when she died in 1965.
	www.angelfire.com /bc3/hwk_jacqui/Irene_Parlby.html (237 words)

	IRENE PARLBY
		Irene Parlby, an advocate for rural women and children, was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1921.
		Irene represented Canada at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1930 and was the first woman awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta in 1935.
		In 1916 Irene was a delegate to the joint United Farmers of Alberta and United Farm Women's Association convention in Calgary and presented a paper entitled: "Women's Place in the Nation." In this paper she argued that women should be taking a much more extensive role in different aspects of society.
	www.bayview.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca /departments/subpages/history/Unit2/Lifeinthe1920s/IreneParlby.htm (760 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Irene Parlby" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irene Parlby (January 9, 1868 – July 12, 1965) was a Canadian farm women's leader, activist and politician.
		Parlby was one of the Valiant Five, who established that women were, indeed, persons and therefore entitled to sit in the Senate of Canada.
		A lifelong advocate for rural Canadian women and children, Parlby was president of the United Farm Women of Alberta from 1916-1919.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=irene_%50arlby (190 words)

	The Famous Five - Irene Parlby - Cabinet Minister
		Parlby was the second woman in the British Empire to hold a Cabinet position—the first being Mary Ellen Smith of British Columbia, who was appointed about a month earlier.
		Though it broke Parlby's heart to abandon her long-cultivated garden at Dartmoor, within days, she was busy working on a new one, into which she poured her energies at every opportunity.
		Immigration was another UFA concern, one that Parlby had experience with through her work on the Immigration Committee in 1918.
	www.abheritage.ca /famous5/achievements/parlby_cabinet_minister.html (506 words)

	Irene Parlby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irene Parlby was born on January 9, 1868 to an aristocratic family.
		Irene was a mother, wife, president of the United Farm Women of Alberta, but she did even more then that.
		Irene was elected to the UFA, and she was the first female Cabinet Minister in Alberta.
	www.vellorewoods.ps.yrdsb.edu.on.ca /grassroots/32/new_page_5.htm (383 words)

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		Irene Parlby was part of the Famous Five which existed in the early part of the 20 century.
		In 1905, Alberta became a province and, in 1909, Walter Parlby became the president of the Alix local of the united Farmers of Alberta(UFA).
		Irene was a very intelligent woman and I found lots more on her on the internet and also in some encyclopaedias and books that I have at home.
	people.stu.ca /~truth/0102/finlwebs/GTTVN/report1.htm (392 words)

	The Reluctant Politician: The Story of Irene Parlby
		An educated English immigrant, Parlby was Alberta's first woman cabinet minister and a leader of the co-operative farmers' movement.
		Parlby's views about the benefits of co-operation, quoted in the film, still have much to say to us in this age of increasing corporate control over our lives.
		I was also fortunate that Irene Parlby's descendants - grandchildren Geoffrey, Gerry, and Susan, and grandniece, Eve - were willing to share their memories and photographs of Irene in the film.
	www.whitepinepictures.com /seeds/iii/35/notes.html (548 words)

	Emily Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		No female senator had yet been appointed, and she was considered a prime candidate; however, she was rejected by a succession of prime ministers.
		Finally she and four other women: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who together were known as The Famous Five (also called The Valiant Five), fought what came to be called the Persons Case, to show that women could be "qualified persons" eligible to sit in the Senate.
		She enlisted the help of four other Albertan women and on August 27th, 1927 she and human rights activist Nellie McClung, ex MLA Louise McKinney, women’s rights campaigners Henrietta Edwards and Irene Parlby signed the petition to the Supreme Court of Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emily_Murphy (2959 words)

	The Famous Five - Irene Parlby
		A significant political figure, Parlby represented Canada at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1930, and was the first woman awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta in 1935.
		Parlby could stand before an audience and deliver a clear and convincing speech and even though she was good at rebuttal, she was never at ease when faced with rough argument or rude heckling.
		Irene represented Lacombe for 14 years, during which time she established travelling medical clinics and advocated for the principle of distance education.
	www.abheritage.ca /famous5/achievements/irene_parlby.html (788 words)

	Irene Marryat Parlby - Femmes à l'honneur : leurs réalisations / Les femmes dans les léislatures du ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irene Parlby, née en Angleterre en 1868, était l'aînée des enfants d'un colonel de l'armée britannique.
		Irene est demeurée au cabinet de l'Alberta jusqu'en 1935 et elle a également représenté le Canada dans le cadre de réunions internationales de femmes.
		Tout au long de sa carrière politique, Irene Parlby a été une idéaliste et elle a défendu avec éloquence l'amélioration de la vie des femmes et des enfants des régions rurales du Canada.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /femmes/002026-307-f.html (759 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Both Irene Parlby and Nellie McClung were elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1921, Irene as a UFA candidate, and Nellie as an opposition Liberal.
		Irene became the first female Cabinet minister in Alberta and was responsible for the passage of 18 bills to improve the plight of women and children and was a strong advocate for rural women and distance education.
		They were Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby and Nellie McClung, all seasoned suffragists and advocates for the advancement of women.
	www.famous5.org /frames/frame_education_issues.htm (1879 words)

	L'Encyclopedie canadienne
		Irene Parlby est la premiÃ¨re femme Ã devenir ministre du Cabinet en Alberta.
		Irene Parlby fut choisie candidate du UFA dans la circonscription de Lacombe.
		AprÃ¨s 1935, Parlby continua de se prononcer sur toute une gamme de sujets, mais elle eut peu d'influence politique dans une Alberta dominÃ©e par le CrÃ©dit Social.
	www.tceplus.com /index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=F2142 (1082 words)

	Famous 5 Heritage Edukit - Parlby : Profile
		Irene joined her fellow suffragists, Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Louise McKinney in the victorious fight to give women the right to run and vote for office.
		Irene's work as a politician earned her first provincial, then national, and eventually international respect.
		After her retirement, Irene continued to live where she and Walter Parlby had originally settled.
	www.edukits.ca /famous/profiles_parlby.html (745 words)

	Louise McKinney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The other woman sworn into the Alberta Legislative Assembly on June 7, 1917 was Roberta McAdams.
		She was a feminist, one of "The Famous Five" (also called "The Valiant Five"), along with Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy and Nellie McClung.
		She served the legislature as a member of the Alberta Non-Partisan League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louise_McKinney (189 words)

	BPW Canada Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung and Henrietta Muir Edwards share the space with Therese Casgrain, a former senator and Quebec human rights activist who died in 1981.
		Emily Murphy with four other women, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby and Nellie McClung instituted a campaign that took them to the Supreme Court of Canada where their request was rejected.
		Irene Parlby (1868-1965) First female Cabinet Minister in Alberta, second in the British Empire (Commonwealth), first president of the Alberta Farm Women's Association.
	www.bpw.ca /famous5.html (1197 words)

	Persons Case - Alberta Community Development
		Their victory was the result of an arduous struggle by five Alberta women, later to be known as the "Famous Five".
		Irene Parlby (née Marryat) began her public life in 1916 when she took over the presidency of the United Farm Women of Alberta.
		Later elected to the Alberta Government, she became the second woman in the British Empire to serve as a cabinet minister, and was Minister without Portfolio in the Alberta Cabinet from 1921 to 1935.
	www.cd.gov.ab.ca /helping_albertans/human_rights/womens_issues/persons_case/index.asp (1409 words)

	Me Myself And Irene - Rock the Vote! - Vote. It's what Democracy is all about (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Empress Irene of Athens was the first woman to rule the Byzantine Empire.
		Irene of Athens is also honored as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church....(Continue Reading)
		When tragedy struck Irene's life in the form of a head-on collision, breaking almost every major bone in her body, she would not have recovered except for God's amazing grace.
	www.voterx.com /me-myself-and-irene.html (464 words)

	Early Rights Movement - The Women of Aspenland
		As a result, the conventions of the private and public sphere (in which women's work and power was limited to the home while men conducted all business and political affairs outside the home) were blurred and many women believed that their contribution to both spheres entitled them participation in political decision-making.
		Aubrey talks about Irene Parlby, her coming to Canada, her MLA-ship, and her involvement in the Dower Act, "Persons" Case and League of Nations.
		As we will see, many of the leaders of the movement in Alberta, such as Irene Parlby, were British immigrants.
	www.albertasource.ca /aspenland/eng/society/activism_rights.html (329 words)

	Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case - The "Famous Five" and the Persons ...
		The Famous Five achieved not only the right for women to serve in the Senate, but they and their many contributions paved the way for women to participate in other aspects of public life and the assertion of women's rights is now honoured by the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
		Born in London, England, Irene (Marryat) Parlby came to Alberta in 1896, married a rancher, and settled in the Lacombe area.
		She was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1921 under the United Farmers of Alberta banner and helped push through 18 bills to improve the plight of women and children.
	www.swc-cfc.gc.ca /dates/persons/case_e.html (1246 words)

	Women become persons - "On This Day" - CBC Archives
		The historic legal victory is due to the persistence of five Alberta women — Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards.
		From Murphy's very first day as a judge, lawyers had challenged her rulings because she is not a "person" under Canadian law.
		• Irene Parlby (1868-1965), elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1921, helped push through 18 bills to improve the plight of women and children.
	archives.cbc.ca /400d.asp?h=1&IDCat=69&IDDos=337&IDCli=1801&IDLan=1&IDMenu=0 (614 words)

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		In conclusion, Emily Murphy passed the Dower"'"s Act, requested a female magistrate for the women's court and got the position herself, and she was also involved in and was president of some of the strongest reform activity clubs.
		Emily Murphy and Nellie McClung were both members of the group entitled the Famous 5; the remaining three members of that group were Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby and Louise McKinney, these women fought for their right to be considered a person with the same rights as men.
		Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby and Louise McKinney in conjunction with Nellie McClung and Emily Murphy fought for their right to be considered a person.
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