Persons Day

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Persons Day is an annual celebration in Canada, held on October 18 each year. The day commemorates the Persons Case – a Canadian and British constitutional case where it was first decided that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate on October 18, 1929.

Persons Day is celebrated annually by several women's groups across Canada including The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund^[1] and The Canadian Voters Congress^[2]

In 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the Privy Council's decision, the Government of Canada instituted the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case to recognize outstanding contributions to advance equality for women in Canada. The Awards are presented annually at a ceremony on Persons Day ^[3]

References

External links

• Persons Day October 18 Background Nellie Langford Rowell Library.York University
• A day to remember 'the famous five' David Asper, National Post, Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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