Oral History What is Oral History? Historians have traditionally relied on documents of various kinds while conducting their research. But documents are often insufficient for fully reconstructing the past, and this is as true of legal history as of any other field of history. Court and other legal records from the past have been lost,… Read more »
232 Search Results for: Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada
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What is Oral History?
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David Vanek
David Vanek served as a Provincial Court judge from 1968 until 1989 when he retired. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1939, just as World War II was breaking out in Europe. During the war Vanek served in the Canadian Intelligence Corps and Field Security in England from 1943 to 1945. Upon… Read more »
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William George Morrow
William George Morrow, LL.B. (Alberta, 1939), practised law in Edmonton for some 20 years before he first travelled to the North West territories to act as volunteer defence counsel in 1960. In 1966 he was appointed a judge of the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories, and over the next decade travelled some 50,000 kilometres… Read more »
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The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry
R. Roy McMurtry,1932-2024, was the former chief justice of Ontario (1996-2007) and Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1985-1988). He is counsel at Gowlings. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1975 after practicing as a trial lawyer for 17 years, and served as attorney-general under Premier William Davis. Mr. McMurtry founded… Read more »
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Patricia McMahon
Patricia McMahon is the Director and lead interviewer of the Osgoode Society’s Oral History Program. She is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and a historian, living in Toronto. Dr. McMahon holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Her Ph.D. dissertation examined the influence… Read more »
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Nancy Backhouse
Madam Justice Nancy Backhouse is currently serving on the Superior Court of Justice for Ontario. Before her appointment to the bench, Justice Backhouse was a family law lawyer and labour arbitrator. She was also a bencher and chair of the Admissions and Equity Committee of the Law Society, vice-chair of the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board,… Read more »
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Anthony Adamson (1906 – 2002)
Anthony Patrick Cawthra Adamson was a leading expert in Ontario’s architectural heritage. He began his career as an architect, but proceeded to work as a professor at the University of Toronto (1955-1965), a town planner and a municipal reeve for the Township of Toronto (now Mississauga). He was the chief designer of Upper Canada Village… Read more »
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2025 Events
Our speaker series resumes on March 12th with Eric Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross talking about their forthcoming Osgoode Society book Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Douglas Sanderson and Andrew Stobo Sniderman will talk about their 2022 book Valley of the Birdtail : An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation,… Read more »
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The Osgoode Society Annual Meeting of Members
This is a reminder that The Osgoode Society will hold its Annual General Meeting of Members on November 30th at 5:30 pm via Zoom. The Osgoode Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: The Osgoode Society Annual Meeting Time: Nov 30, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93480886008?pwd=TDRNSkhpVG5NS1Jhd3N1WU41T3B0UT09 Meeting ID:… Read more »
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Harry W. Arthurs
BA, LLB (TORONTO) LLM (HARVARD) LL.D. (hon) SHERBROOKE, BROCK, LAW SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, MCGILL, MONTREAL, TORONTO, YORK, SIMON FRASER, D.C.L. (hon) WINDSOR, D. LITT. (hon) LETHBRIDGE, FRSC, FBA Harry Arthurs OC OO is University Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of York University. He was the Canada Council’s first Killam Laureate in the Social Sciences (2002)… Read more »
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