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. Andrew Lawson	2000	433	C 81-1-0-150
Mr. Ronald Ellis	1997	153	C 81-4-0-81
Prof. Dianne Martin	1994	175	C 81-2-0-53
Mr. Robert Holden	1998	154	C 81-4-0-83
Mrs. Gretta Wong Grant	1990	120	C 81-1-0-113
Mr. Michael Fitz-James	2003	125	C 81-1-0-139
The Hon. Harvey Brownstone	2006	102	C 81-4-0-130
Ms. Debra Paulseth	2004	125	C 81-4-0-109
The Hon. Willard Estey	1979	261	C 81-1-0-9
Mr. Thomas Bastedo	1998	125	C 81-4-0-84
The Hon. Ted Andrews	1995	222	C 81-4-0-26
Mr. William Carroll Grant	1989	147	C 81-3-0-4
Mr. Samuel Lerner	1990	177	C 81-1-0-92
Mr. Alan Newell	2001	70	C 81-4-0-96
The Hon. Robert Groom	1987	61	C 81-1-0-64
Master Reid Donkin	1998	136	C 81-4-0-86
The Hon. Patrick Galligan	2001	368	C 81-4-0-95
The Hon. Pamela Thomson	2001	244	C 81-1-0-137
Mrs. Laura Legge	1988	290	C 81-1-0-67
The Hon. Judythe Little	2005	101	C 81-4-0-134
The Hon. Senior Judge John Gammell	1996	242	C 81-4-0-40
The Hon. John Arnup	1983	444	C 81-1-0-25
Miss Joan Heath	1991	83	C 81-2-0-35
Mr. James Lillico	1989	140	C 81-3-0-6
The Hon. Gertrude Speigel	2003	244	C 81-1-0-152
The Hon. George Carter	1989	182	C 81-1-0-77
The Hon. Edson Haines	1987	234	C 81-1-0-53
Mr. Bernard Shaffer	1991	123	C 81-1-0-116