JANEY CANUCK was good ol' Emily's pen name from what I gather. Ya, she was a real piece of work!

Thanks for the heads up!!!! :thumbsup:


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Janey urged stiffer jail sentences for drug offenders, healthy doses of the lash, and if they were aliens, instant deportation. She was not a nice person. According to the commission's team, her writing was sensationalist, fable-ridden and exploitative of "popular racial bias." Yes indeed. "She created a series of women-seducing villains, primarily non-white and non-Christian, who threatened the Anglo-Saxon way of life."

While explaining the motive behind the drug trade, Janey declared, "It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of color to bring about the degeneration of the white race." Another thing she apparently could not say was who made the claim.

On the same theme, she then summarized the opinion of "Major Crehan of British Columbia" that since "the traffic always comes with the Oriental, one would be justified in assuming that it was their desire to injure the bright-browed races of the world. ...Some of the Negroes coming into Canada - -- and they are no fiddle-faddle fellows either -- have similar ideas, and one of their greatest writers has boasted how ultimately they will control the white men." And who was that great black writer? Janey wasn't telling.

She refers to "the lowest classes of yellow and black men," and "this sallow, unsmiling Oriental." After describing "a certain blackamoor," a railroad porter who was not only a drug offender but a possessor of "the most obscene literature ever printed," Janey wrote, "One can hardly imagine anything more dangerous than a filthy-minded drug addict in charge of a coach of sleeping people, whatever his color may be."

Even when complimenting one race, Janey felt compelled to trash another:

"The Chinese are as a rule friendly people and have a fine sense of humor that puts them on an easy footing with our folk, as compared with the Hindu and others we might mention. ...Ah Duck, or whatever we choose to call him," was at least "patient, polite and persevering."
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Janey's articles were so popular among Canada's Christian whites, with their fears of the Yellow Peril and the dangers that lurked among dark-skinned people, that in 1922, the stories appeared between hard covers as The Black Candle. It was in Back Pages, a fine little used-book store in downtown Halifax, that I stumbled upon this little-known CanLit gem.

My, she was proud of that book, so proud she nominated herself for a 1923 Nobel Prize. Frederick Banting and J.J.R. McLeod shared a Nobel that year for the discovery of insulin, but alas for Janey, the award for literature went to some poet named William Butler Yeats. At least he belonged to a "bright-browed" race, even if he was an Irishman.

Who was the charming Miss Canuck? None other than Mrs. Emily Murphy, the first woman judge in the British Empire, and one of the "the famous five."

In 1929, these women won a judgment from the British Privy Council that declared women were indeed persons under the British North America Act, and therefore entitled to sit in the Senate. They had proved the truth of Emily's credo: "The world loves a peaceful man, but gives way to a strenuous kicker."

So she's huge in the heroine biz. Edmonton has its Emily Murphy Road, and its Emily Murphy Park, with its Emily Murphy statue. Calgary recently unveiled a statue of the famous five, which of course included Emily. From a similar statue, she'll soon glare in all her glory on Parliament Hill.

Kate Nelligan portrays her in one of those sucky Canadian Heritage fillers on television. Greg Gatenby, director of Toronto's Harbourfront Reading Series, wants a new street near his home named after her.

To be fair to Janey, The Black Candle not only urged those corrective lashings -- 10 on the way into the slammer, and just for good measure, 10 more on the way out -- but also recommended, unsuccessfully, the establishment of treatment centres for drug addicts. Still, if pot-smokers (not to mention Chinese Canadians) were as fanatical as certain Quebec separatists, they'd be planting bombs under those bronze Emilies. But they're not.

Compared to Janey, they're a gentle crowd.

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