SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Henrietta Edwards

1849 - 1931

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Henrietta Muir Edwards (18 December 1849 – 10 November 1931) was a Canadian women's rights activist, author and reformer. She was the eldest of "The Famous Five", along with Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who fought to have women recognized as "persons" under the law, and for the woman's right to vote in elections. She was born Henrietta Louise Muir in Montreal as well as lived in Montreal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrietta Edwards has received more than 101,658 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Henrietta Edwards is the 658th most popular social activist, the 733rd most popular biography from Canada and the 5th most popular Canadian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Henrietta Edwards ranks 658 out of 840Before her are Maria Verónica Reina, Mirabehn, Bobby Henderson, María Elena Moyano, Jacqueline Moudeina, and Samuel Gompers. After her are Anthony Dod Mantle, Derek Chauvin, Fartuun Adan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frank Kameny, and Tarana Burke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Henrietta Edwards ranks 112Before her are Sarah Orne Jewett, Edmund Gosse, Aston Webb, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, Edwin Lord Weeks, and Sarat Chandra Das. After her is James Mason. Among people deceased in 1931, Henrietta Edwards ranks 148Before her are Frank Harris, Lidiya Tseraskaya, James Neill, Tom Roberts, Vachel Lindsay, and George Whitefield Chadwick. After her is Robert Edeson.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Henrietta Edwards ranks 733 out of 1,622Before her are Steve Yzerman (1965), Erik Mongrain (1980), Ted Lindsay (1925), Maude Abbott (1868), Serinda Swan (1984), and Philippe Falardeau (1968). After her are Bianca Beauchamp (1977), Fikayo Tomori (1997), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Keegan Connor Tracy (1971), Hart Bochner (1956), and Robbie Amell (1988).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Canada

Among social activists born in Canada, Henrietta Edwards ranks 5Before her are Paul Watson (1950), Viola Desmond (1914), David Reimer (1965), and John Peters Humphrey (1905). After her are Emily Murphy (1868), Sheila Watt-Cloutier (1953), and Autumn Peltier (2004).