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 730 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 exclusively by the Osgoode Society may not be available yet for circulation. Please email us for more information.

Oral Histories

Name	Year	Pages	Location
The Hon. Margaret Fasken Baird Campbell	1991	176	C 81-2-0-22
The Hon. James Felstiner	1997	169	C 81-4-0-42
Prof. Jacob Finkelman	1995	44	C 81-1-0-129
Prof. Martin Friedland	1999	49	C 81-4-0-92
The Hon. Arthur Klein	1996	259	C 81-4-0-38
The Hon.William Howland	1992	928	C 81-1-0-126
The Hon. Walter Bell	1998	207	C 81-4-0-50
Mr. Thomas Bastedo	1998	125	C 81-4-0-84
The Hon. Sidney Linden	1998	401	C 81-4-0-53
The Hon. Sidney Dymond	1991	130	C 81-2-0-29
Mr. Ronald Ellis	1997	153	C 81-4-0-81
The Hon. Pamela Thomson	2001	244	C 81-1-0-137
The Hon. Lorne Stewart	1997	134	C 81-4-0-43
Mr. Leonard Braithwaite	1989	137	C 81-1-0-74
Mr. L.R. MacTavish	1985	235	C 81-1-0-41
The Hon. John Sopinka	1996	39	C 81-4-0-8
Mr. John Nelligan	1996	168	C 81-4-0-127
The Hon. John Morden	1986	180	C 81-1-0-47
Professor John Edwards	1986	217	C 81-1-0-51
The Hon. Jack Cannon	1996	138	C 81-4-0-37
The Hon. J.J. Fitzpatrick	1998	150	C 81-4-0-12
The Hon. Hilda McKinlay	2001	327	C 81-1-0-164
The Hon. George Finlayson	1989	337	C 81-1-0-66
The Hon. George Carter	1989	182	C 81-1-0-77
Prof. Fred Zemans	1997	106	C 81-4-0-79
Ms. Debra Paulseth	2004	125	C 81-4-0-109
The Hon. Colin Bennett	1984	173	C 81-1-0-26
Mr. Charles Roach	1989	179	C 81-1-0-81
The Hon. Charles Opper	1984	120	C 81-1-0-34
Mr. Brendan O'Brien	1980	183	C 81-1-0-17
The Hon. William Golden	1995	160	C 81-4-0-30
Mr. Warner Alcombrack	1994	47	C 81-2-0-52
Mr. W.P. Clement	1979	29	C 81-1-0-12
The Hon. W.D. Griffiths	2001	234	C 81-4-0-94
Mr. Victor McKague	1984	30	C 81-1-0-36
Mr. Thomas Onizuka	1991	82	C 81-1-0-119
The Hon. Sydney Robins	1997	455	C 81-1-0-132
The Hon. Sydney Harris	1995	137	C 81-4-0-22
Mr. Stanley Edwards	1999	40	C 81-4-0-91
Mr. Samuel Gotfrid	1990	112	C 81-1-0-97
Mr. Roland Wilson	1985	160	C 81-1-0-43
Police Constable Robert Takeda	1991	55	C 81-1-0-120
The Hon. Robert Montgomery	1997	74	C 81-4-0-128
Mr. Rendall Dick	1984	404	C 81-1-0-33
Judge Phil Baker	1996	166	C 81-4-0-34
Mr. Peter White	1980	241	C 81-1-0-14
Staff Inspector Patricia Post	1991	88	C 81-2-0-31
Mr. Panayoti Ballachey	1981	288	C 81-1-0-19
The Hon. Milton Cadsby	1998	153	C 81-4-0-47
The Hon. Michael Cloney	1996	136	C 81-4-0-39
The Hon. Marvin Catzman	1990	59	C 81-1-0-96
Ms. Marva Jemmott	1989	266	C 81-1-0-75
Sergeant Mark Mendelson	1990	95	C 81-1-0-104
Miss Marie Wilson	1991	165	C 81-2-0-28
Miss Margaret Smith	1991	267	C 81-2-0-23
Professor Margaret Banks	1987	151	C 81-1-0-58
Sergeant Lionel Gough	1989	68	C 81-1-0-83
The Hon. Lincoln Alexander	1997	55	C 81-1-0-131
Mrs. Laura Legge	1988	290	C 81-1-0-67
Mr. Kenneth Howie	1998	226	C 81-4-0-13
Mr. Joseph Sedgwick	1980	42	C 81-1-0-5
Professor John McCamus	1991	96	C 81-2-0-41
Mr. John Honsberger	1983	423	C 81-1-0-21
The Hon. John Arnup	1983	444	C 81-1-0-25
Mr. James Watson	1989	59	C 81-1-0-85
The Hon. Jack Belobradic	1999	191	C 81-4-0-56
Mr. Glen How	1998	237	C 81-1-0-136
The Hon. Gibson Gray	1989	414	C 81-1-0-79
Mr. Frederick Catzman	1990	175	C 81-1-0-88
Mr. Frank Rocchi	1995	104	C 81-4-0-71
The Hon. Edson Haines	1987	234	C 81-1-0-53
The Hon. Edra Ferguson	1991	231	C 81-2-0-25
Judge Douglas Thomas	1980	72	C 81-1-0-15
The Hon. Douglas Latimer	1995	184	C 81-4-0-23
The Hon. Douglas Coo	2004	145	C 81-4-0-123
The Hon. Douglas Bice	1998	125	C 81-4-0-52
The Hon. Douglas Bean	2000	166	C 81-4-0-59
Mrs. Dorothy Jean Howard Reilly	1991	74	C 81-2-0-32
The Hon. Donald Keith	1989	122	C 81-1-0-70
The Hon. David Walker	1980	133	C 81-1-0-7
Mr. Carl Keyfetz	1990	159	C 81-1-0-89
Mr. Brian Schnurr	2003	139	C 81-4-0-118
Mr. Brendan O'Brien	1997	179	C 81-1-0-134
Mr. Bradley Crawford	1994	54	C 81-2-0-45
Mrs. Betty Jane Teagle MacDonald	1991	124	C 81-2-0-33
Mr. Benjamin Levinter	1997	115	C 81-4-0-11
Sergeant Benjamin Eng	1991	110	C 81-1-0-123
Mr. Austin Cooper	1994	193	C 81-2-0-54
Audrey Chen	1990	88	C 81-1-0-111
Mr. Arthur Kitamura	1991	117	C 81-1-0-118
The Hon. Arthur Kelly	1984	176	C 81-1-0-30
Mrs. Anne Epstein Baker	1990	138	C 81-1-0-103
The Hon. Wishart Spence	1986	220	C 81-1-0-46
The Hon. William Sharpe	1997	189	C 81-4-0-45
The Hon. William Colter	2004	150	C 81-1-0-140
Mr. William Carroll Grant	1989	147	C 81-3-0-4
Mr. Walter Howell	1989	76	C 81-3-0-5
Mr. William E. Raney	1985	138	C 81-1-0-45
Mr. William (W.B.) Common	1980	200	C 81-1-0-11
Mr. W. Gregory	2008	36	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Vibert Lampkin	1990	190	C 81-1-0-87
Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington	1989	36	C 81-2-0-6
Mr. Thomas R. Deacon	1980	83	C 81-1-0-13
Mr. Thomas Evans	2007	51	C 81-1-0-142
The Hon. Ted Andrews	1995	222	C 81-4-0-26
The Hon. Stewart Fisher	2000	201	C 81-4-0-58
Mr. Stephen Fram	2004	111	C 81-4-0-110
Mr. Stanley Fennell	1990	235	C 81-1-0-95
Mr. Sidney Poon	2011	253	Osgoode Society
Shearman & Sterling	1990	30	C 81-2-0-12
The Hon. Samuel Hughes	1988	479	C 81-1-0-69
Mr. Roydon Hughes	1983	158	C 81-1-0-28
The Hon. Ross Fair	1995	159	C 81-4-0-25
The Hon. Robert Walmsley	1995	160	C 81-4-0-20
Mr. Robert McClenahan	1996	67	C 81-4-0-74
Mr. Robert Holden	1998	154	C 81-4-0-83
The Hon. Richard Holland	1997	105	C 81-4-0-10
Mr. Richard Chaloner	2002	378	C 81-4-0-102
The Hon. Richard Batten	1995	49	C 81-4-0-33
The Hon. Reuben Bromstein	1997	228	C 81-4-0-46
Master Reid Donkin	1998	136	C 81-4-0-86
The Hon. Norman Nadeau	1995	143	C 81-4-0-31
Mr. Nathan Strauss	1986	88	C 81-1-0-49
Master John Ferron	1999	180	C 81-4-0-87
Mr. Murray Ellies	2010	143	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Maurice Cullity	2003	165	C 81-4-0-121
Mrs. Mary Frawley Lamont	1991	89	C 81-2-0-27
Mr. Marshall Pollock	2004	72	C 81-4-0-113
Miss Margaret Hyndman	1984	253	C 81-1-0-29
Mr. Malcolm Archibald	2004	101	C 81-4-0-122
The Hon. Mabel Van Camp	1989	571	C 81-1-0-60
The Hon. Livius Sherwood	1995	30	C 81-4-0-28
Mrs. Lillian Sandler Gordon	1991	45	C 81-2-0-24
Mrs. Lil Sherizen Charon	1991	57	C 81-2-0-26
Mr. Leon Paroian	1998	98	C 81-1-0-135
Mr. Larry Taman	1997	41	C 81-4-0-82
Mr. Kazuo Oiye	1991	76	C 81-1-0-121
The Hon. Joseph Sheard	2003	128	C 81-4-0-120
Sergeant Johnny Tanouye	1991	53	C 81-1-0-122
Magistrate John Prentice	1987	78	C 81-1-0-63
Mr. John J. Robinette	1987	738	C 81-1-0-62
Mr. John Agro	1989	203	C 81-1-0-73
Miss Joan Heath	1991	83	C 81-2-0-35
Staff Superintendent Jean Boyd	1992	81	C 81-2-0-37
Mrs. Janette MacDonald	1990	81	C 81-2-0-21
The Hon. James Rennicks	1997	62	C 81-4-0-143
Mr. James Lillico	1989	140	C 81-3-0-6
Mr. James Jagtoo	2011	104	Osgoode Society
The Hon. James Farley	2007	198	C 81-1-0-160
Prof. J-G. Castel	1992	36	C 81-2-0-42
Inspector Marlene Watson	1991	83	C 81-2-0-34
Mr. Howard Staats	1990	67	C 81-1-0-102
Prof. Harry Arthurs	1994	51	C 81-2-0-44
Dr. H. Allan Leal	1984	310	C 81-1-0-31
Mrs. Gretta Wong Grant	1990	120	C 81-1-0-113
Gowling, Strathy & Henderson	1989	64	C 81-2-0-1
Master Gordon Saunders	2000	72	C 81-4-0-89
Mr. Gordon Henderson	1987	288	C 81-1-0-52
The Hon. Gerald Lapkin	2004	186	C 81-4-0-67
Mr. Garfield Payne	1990	35	C 81-2-0-20
Mr. G. E. Beament	1992	196	C 81-1-0-93
The Hon. Goldwyn Arthur Martin	1985	235	C 81-1-0-32
Fraser & Beatty	1990	44	C 81-2-0-9
Mr. Percy Claire Finlay	1985	85	C 81-1-0-39
Mr. Etienne Saint-Aubin	2002	66	C 81-4-0-100
Mr. Eric Silk	1993	52	C 81-2-0-49
Mr. Elmer Bell	1989	65	C 81-1-0-80
Police Constable Edmund Pink	1989	28	C 81-1-0-84
Mr. Earl Cherniak	1999	187	C 81-4-0-14
Mr. Doug Lucas	1996	389	C 81-1-0-130
Mr. Justice Donald Morand	1987	308	C 81-1-0-38
Mr. Donald Lamont	1987	144	C 81-1-0-56
Mr. Donald Elliott	1990	44	C 81-2-0-14
The Hon. Donald Dodds	1998	145	C 81-4-0-44
The Hon. Donald August	1998	146	C 81-4-0-49
Prof. Dianne Martin	1994	175	C 81-2-0-53
Mr. Derek Hayes	1990	49	C 81-2-0-15
Mr. David Watson	1996	140	C 81-4-0-75
The Hon. David Vanek	1994	163	C 81-2-0-55
Mr. David Tsubouchi	2011	237	Osgoode Society
Mr. David Scott	2010	321	Osgoode Society
The Hon. David Main	1999	218	C 81-4-0-54
David Lee	1990	48	C 81-1-0-112
The Hon. Charles Scullion	1997	200	C 81-4-0-41
The Hon. Bruce Payne	2001	156	C 81-4-0-63
Blake, Cassels	1990	37	C 81-2-0-8
Mr. Bert Raphael	2000	224	C 81-4-0-16
Mr. Bernard Shaffer	1991	123	C 81-1-0-116
The Hon. Bernard Kelly	2000	126	C 81-4-0-60
Mr. Benjamin Luxenberg	1990	97	C 81-1-0-90
Mr. Barry Pepper	1988	463	C 81-1-0-65
Ms. Barbara Suzuki	1990	195	C 81-1-0-114
Staff Sergeant Balmain Jones	1989	42	C 81-1-0-82
Mr. Arthur Stone	1994	107	C 81-2-0-50
Justice of the Peace Arthur Downes	2004	238	C 81-4-0-125
Mr. Argue Martin	1988	237	C 81-1-0-54
Mrs. Angela Kerr Porter	1991	54	C 81-2-0-30
Mr. Alan Newell	2001	70	C 81-4-0-96
Prof. Alan Mewett	1991	40	C 81-2-0-39
The Hon. A.M. Austin	2007	268	C 81-1-0-159
Mr. Arthur A. Kajander	1993	59	C 81-4-0-2