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Marriage record, Paris, Brant Co., ON:
George William Kerby (BA?), 28, lives Woodstock, Ont, born Ontario, bachelor, Clergyman, Methodist, s/o Nelson Kerby and Hester Ann Sheply;
Emily Spencer, 29, lives Paris, born Ontario, spinster, Methodist, d/o James Spencer and Sarah Lafferty;
Witnesses: Henry Langford and Isaac B. Wallwin;
Married by license in Paris 11 Oct 1888 by Rev. A. E. Russ.

1901 personal census, Montreal, QC, A1-46:
Kerby Rev. George, M, Married, 18 July 1860, 40, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Clergyman;
Emily S., F, wife, Married, 26 March 1859, 42, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Harold S., M, son, Single, 14 May 1893, 7, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, 10 months in school;
Helen J., F, daughter, Single, 5 Jan 1895, 6, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth.

Brantford Expositor, 4 October 1938:
Mrs. Emily S. Kerby Died in Calgary - Wife of Dr. George W. Kerby, Formerly of Brant Avenue Church - Mrs. Emily Spencer Kerby, wife of Dr. George W. Kerby, Principal and founder of Mount Royal College, Calgary, and formerly Pastor of Brant Avenue United Church of this city, died at her home yesterday. She was born in Toronto and lived in Paris prior to her marriage after which she came to Brantford with Dr. Kerby. They went west from Brantford in 1903, after living in the city for three years. Dr. and Mrs. Kerby were to have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary October 12.

Stephanie Griffiths, University of Calgary Gazette, 23 February 2000:
Celebrating an unsung hero - Pioneer paved way for Famous Five.
Maybe there should be a Famous Six.
Emily Spencer Kerby was a dominant pioneer in ensuring that women would be recognized as persons with rights and privileges during the early 1900s when women were not considered as persons.
Her work helped set the path for the Famous Five, yet she isn t well known even in Alberta.
Anne White, a PhD student in religious studies, is out to change that. White is researching Kerby s life and the lives of other great Canadian women who have not received credit for their instrumental contribution to the lives of women in Canadian society.
White focuses her doctoral research on the dynamics of how Kerby, with the help of other women, put aside religious and social differences to create changes in women s and children s rights, labour laws and working wages. Kerby, for example, fought against the eugenics of the sterilization of women with mental disabilities.
Kerby was born in Toronto in 1859 to a middle class family. She married George Kerby, a Methodist minister. They later moved to Calgary.
In Calgary, she became involved in women's issues and struggles. Kerby lobbied against the problems facing immigrant women and children. A natural outcome of her concern was the organization of the first YWCA in Calgary.
White (left) speaks with excitement about Kerby. Unlike men, Kerby and other women forged unity by creating changes in social reform without shedding blood, says White. Kerby was not a woman who would allow a label to define her abilities.
The social activist stance Kerby embraced was classified as controversial and unwomanly but that did not deter her from achieving her goals.
According to White, to grasp Kerby s perspective of equality we need to have a belief of brotherhood, that we are one.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus, says White, quoting Galatians 3:28 to describe Kerby s zeal and outlook.
White admires Kerby s boldness, in going against the norm at a time when women were emasculated for speaking out about the injustices committed against them and their children. Kerby was not afraid to preach to men from the pulpit challenging the status quo.
White believes that one of the reasons Kerby was excellent in her work was that she spoke up for the underdog, calling people to rethink their narrow beliefs. Another reason for Kerby s success was that she was a woman of action who believed passionately in equality and not straying from her purpose in life.
White teaches several courses at the U of C in the religious studies department. She wants her research into Kerby s life to encourage students so that, through working to understand each other, they can make great contributions to society, even when the possibility of class controversy exists.

Home Sweet Heritage Home, Biographies of Famous Calgarians and Their Homes, Canada's Digital Collections, Collections Canada
Kerby, Dr. George William, 1125 - 7th Avenue SW, 1860-1944
George Kerby's parents were United Empire Loyalists who emigrated to Canada in the mid-1800's. Kerby was born in 1860 at the family farm in Lambton County, Ontario. ... Eventually, Kerby graduated from the University of Toronto, and was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1888.
...Kerby received a telegram from Calgary asking him to travel west to the frontier. The year was 1902 ... Kerby and his wife, Emily, ... heeded the call...
...he served until 1910, when he was invited to become principal of the newly formed Mount Royal College.
He provided Mount Royal College (an intermediate college) with dynamic leadership for over 31 years...
Emily was active in the community as well, establishing the first Y.M.C.A. in Calgary, serving as both president of the Women's Canadian Club and vice-president of the National Council of Women. She died only nine days short of their 50th wedding anniversary. Kerby followed in 1944, after being awarded honorary degrees from the Universities of Alberta and Victoria, as well as serving as Honourary Lieutenant Colonel and Honourary Chaplain during the opening years of World War II.

From the Mount Royal College, Calgary website:
About MRC - History
Reverend George Kerby believed that a civilized, enterprising and prosperous society was an educated society. In 1910, he founded Mount Royal College to bring his vision to life, and to educate the citizens of Calgary.
On September 8, 1911, the doors to Mount Royal College, and its Conservatory of Music, opened. The 154 students who went to the school that day could not have known that this College would one day rank as one of Canada's finest - nor could they have foreseen that they were embarking on a journey to be shared by thousands of people over the next 90 years.
Mount Royal College rapidly evolved from its beginnings with the United Church, thanks in part to the work of people such as Dr. Kerby's wife, Emily, who expanded the horizons of women by launching the Mount Royal Education Club for Women in the 1920s. In 1931, Mount Royal became a junior college affiliated with the University of Alberta and became the first college in the province to offer university arts and science transfer courses. The partnership was the beginning of a history of transfer agreements with universities across Canada.

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James Spencer   Sarah Lafferty
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Emily Spencer 1859-1938