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
The Hon. Gertrude Speigel	2003	244	C 81-1-0-152
Mr. Justice Donald Morand	1987	308	C 81-1-0-38
The Hon. Edson Haines	1987	234	C 81-1-0-53
The Hon. Mr. Archie Campbell	2008	261	C 81-4-0-145
The Hon. Janet Boland	1993	126	C 81-1-0-127
The Hon. Samuel Hughes	1988	479	C 81-1-0-69
The Hon. Robert Reid	1987	498	C 81-1-0-50
The Hon. Mabel Van Camp	1989	571	C 81-1-0-60
The Hon. Gregory Evans	1997	339	C 81-1-0-133
Thomas Zuber	2016	116	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Abraham Lieff	1979	376	C 81-1-0-8
Mr. Justice Mayer Lerner	1988	204	C 81-1-0-59
The Hon. Gibson Gray	1989	414	C 81-1-0-79
The Hon. A.M. Austin	2007	268	C 81-1-0-159
The Hon. Donald Keith	1989	122	C 81-1-0-70
The Hon. William Parker	1995	441	C 81-4-0-70
The Hon. James Farley	2007	198	C 81-1-0-160
The Hon. Douglas Coo	2004	145	C 81-4-0-123
The Hon. Robert Reid	1994	55	C 81-4-0-6
The Hon. David Scott	2001	257	C 81-4-0-139
Master Reid Donkin	1998	136	C 81-4-0-86
The Hon. Campbell Grant	1983	287	C 81-1-0-23
The Hon. Edward Saunders	2004	120	C 81-4-0-124
The Hon. William Colter	2004	150	C 81-1-0-140
The Hon. Sidney Dymond	1991	130	C 81-2-0-29
The Hon. Blenus Wright	2004	135	C 81-4-0-112
The Hon. Judith Bell-Oyen	1989	284	C 81-1-0-68
The Hon. Joseph Sheard	2003	128	C 81-4-0-120
The Hon. W. Dan Chilcott	2002	128	C 81-4-0-114
The Hon. Donna Haley	2003	147	C 81-4-0-119
The Hon. Colin Bennett	1984	173	C 81-1-0-26
The Hon. Bruce Macdonald	1984	59	C 81-1-0-37
Judge Douglas Thomas	1980	72	C 81-1-0-15
Master John Ferron	1999	180	C 81-4-0-87
The Hon. Beth Allen	2010	186	C 81-4-0-176
The Hon. Romain Pitt	2010	177	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Romain Pitt	2009	135	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Robert Rutherford	2000	178	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Susan Greer	2006	104	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Susan Himel	2003	48	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Thomas Callon	2000	108	Osgoode Society
The Hon. W.D. Griffiths	2001	234	C 81-4-0-94
The Hon. Richard Holland	1997	105	C 81-4-0-10
The Hon. W.D. Griffiths	1995	180	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Peter Jarvis	2001	188	C 81-4-0-17
The Hon. Patrick LeSage	2008	140	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Denise Bellamy	2007	212	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Patrick LeSage	2005	164	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Patrick Gravely	2003	68	Osgoode Society
The Hon. Derek Mendes da Costa	2003	110	Osgoode Society