It is not uncommon for a country to mark the anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote. Not so in Canada, where, instead of commemorating 1917 as the year when women were enfranchised at the federal level, we have Persons Day, which, according to the official mythology, commemorates the 1929 Edwards v. Canada decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) that women are human beings.