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In October 1929, the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overturned a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that women could not be members of the legislature.

This case, which came to be known as the Persons Case, had important ramifications not just for women's rights but also because in overturning the case, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council engendered a radical change in the Canadian judicial approach to the Canadian constitution, an approach that has come to be known as the " living tree doctrine ".

The five women who initiated the case are known in Canada as the Famous Five.

In November, the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurred off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean.

It registered as a Richter magnitude 7. 2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, broke 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggered a tsunami that destroyed many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28 ( as of 1997, Canada's most lethal earthquake ).