Oral History Program

The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Program is the world’s largest oral history program dedicated to legal history.

Since 1979, the Society has conducted more than 700 interviews and deposited over 100,000 pages of transcripts in the Archives of Ontario. Interview subjects include lawyers, judges, politicians, and members of the police services. Interview documentation consists of transcripts.

Oral Histories are either held by the Archives of Ontario or by the Osgoode Society.  Those held by the Osgoode Society are not yet available for circulation.

Oral Histories

Name	Year	Pages	Location
Mr. Benjamin Levinter	1997	115	C 81-4-0-11
The Hon. Robert Reid	1994	55	C 81-4-0-6
Mr. Bert Raphael	2000	224	C 81-4-0-16
Mr. Charles McKeon	1996	107	C 81-4-0-7
Mr. John Nelligan	1996	168	C 81-4-0-127
The Hon. Robert Montgomery	1997	74	C 81-4-0-128
Mr. Barry Pepper	1994	47	C 81-4-0-4
Mr. Wendell Wigle	1999	145	C 81-4-0-15
The Hon. J.J. Fitzpatrick	1998	150	C 81-4-0-12
John Arnup	1994	33	Osgoode Society
Peter Cronyn	2013	250	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Richard Holland	1997	105	C 81-4-0-10
The Hon. John Sopinka	1996	39	C 81-4-0-8
Mr. Kenneth Howie	1998	226	C 81-4-0-13
Mr. Peter Webb	2000	134	C 81-4-0-147
The Hon. John Jennings	2000	167	C 81-4-0-149
The Hon. John Arnup	1994	45	C 81-4-0-5
Mr. Samuel Lerner	1990	177	C 81-1-0-92
Mr. Earl Cherniak	1999	187	C 81-4-0-14
The Hon. Douglas Coo	2004	145	C 81-4-0-123