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
Prof. Mary Jane Mossman	1997	229	C 81-4-0-80
Prof. Dianne Martin	1994	175	C 81-2-0-53
Prof. Aline Grenon	2010	304	C 81-1-0-171
Professor Margaret Banks	1987	151	C 81-1-0-58
Prof. Lorraine Weinrib	2007	193	Osgoode Society
Prof. Fred Zemans	1997	106	C 81-4-0-79
Prof. Harry Arthurs	1994	51	C 81-2-0-44
Professor John Edwards	1986	217	C 81-1-0-51
Dean Wilbur Bowker	1988	283	C 81-1-0-61
Prof. Vern Krishna	2005	206	Osgoode Society
Prof. Peter Russell	2002	101	C 81-4-0-106
Professor Peter Hogg	1991	46	C 81-2-0-40
The Hon. Maurice Cullity	2003	165	C 81-4-0-121
Prof. Martin Friedland	1999	49	C 81-4-0-92
Prof. Joseph Roach	2005	118	C 81-1-0-162
Professor John McCamus	1991	96	C 81-2-0-41
Prof. Jacob Finkelman	1995	44	C 81-1-0-129
Prof. J-G. Castel	1992	36	C 81-2-0-42
The Hon. Horace Krever	1999	80	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Frank Iacobucci	1993	116	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Derek Mendes da Costa	2003	110	Osgoode Society
Prof. Balfour Halevy	2003	153	C 81-1-0-138
The Hon. Allen Linden	1991	71	C 81-2-0-38