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An Evening with the Honourable Mahmud Jamal
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A History of Edmonton’s Legal Discussion Clubs
By Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist Edmonton Legal Discussion Club Two of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Legal Discussion Club were L.Y. Cairns and John A. Weir. The Law School at University of Alberta came into formation in 1922 with the...
What is LASA’s Oral History Program
Typically, when we imagine historians researching, they are sitting at a table in an archive or library flipping through dusty documents that are hundreds of years old or reading an obscure book about a long-ago event or period. It is true that historians, in the...
From the Vault
By Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist LASA is grateful to Merry Rogers (Law Society of Alberta employee) for her recent donation of an interesting court ledger acquired last month. At first look, the ledger appeared unexceptional but upon further examination it...
From the Archives
By Brenda McCafferty, MARM, Archivist A recent donation of Alberta law stamps from the late Honourable Syd E. Wood, K.C., harkens memories of the Wood family legal legacy in Edmonton, and highlights First and Second World War remembrances. Sydney Wood, Q.C....