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The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, on Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint.
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The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of roughly $1,200. The council also cleaned up the Churchill statue last month.
It was in August of 1927 that Emily Murphy invited four women Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards to her house in Garneau. There, they drafted and signed a letter to the governor general of Canada, asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether women could legally be appointed to the Canadian Senate.
Emily Murphy statue splashed with red paint in Edmonton
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