‘Pink tea’ event marks 95th anniversary of landmark women’s rights case [Video]

High school students and trailblazing Island politicians gathered in Summerside, P.E.I., on Friday to mark the 95th anniversary of a milestone case for women’s rights in Canada.

The “Pink Tea” event at Three Oaks Senior High School commemorated a 1929 legal decision known widely as the Persons Case, a landmark victory that saw women officially declared “persons” under Canadian law.

“It was such an important moment in the history of women’s rights in Canada,” said Malak Elfadil, a Grade 12 student who helped organize the event.

“I think them winning that case wasn’t just to help women at that time, but it also set the stage for more progress in gender equality.”

In October 1929, a group of women who would go down in history as The Famous Five won their appeal in a case about allowing women to serve in Canada’s Senate. It came to be known as the …