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By Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist A Look Back at Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympics and Calgary Athletes Aside from the seemingly mundane duties of civil litigation and criminal law, lawyers commonly shoulder a wide range of social, political, and economic...
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Previous posts in LASA’s “City Builders” series have focused on individuals and their contributions to the city of Calgary over the last 150 years. The following post – in two parts – will examine the Faculty of Law at the University of...
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Previous posts in LASA’s “City Builders” series have focused on individuals and their contributions to the city of Calgary over the last 150 years. The following post – in two parts – will examine the Faculty of Law at the University of...
By Neil B. Watson The following is a post written by Neil B. Watson, retired Calgary lawyer and former LASA Board Member, and is adapted from his original chapter on John McKinley Cameron, K.C., available in Citymakers: Calgarians after the Frontier, edited by Max...
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Before there was the Honourable Mary Hetherington, the Honourable Catherine Fraser, the Honourable Mary Moreau, and the Honourable Sheilah Martin, there was Ruth Gorman. Though she was only a lawyer for a short period and never a judge, Ruth was...
A young Eric L. Harvie in military uniformhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Harvie.jpg [Accessed 2 April 2025]
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By Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist Profile of a Colourful Irish Advocate of Calgary’s Early Days Patrick James Nolan, K.C. (1862-1913)Glenbow Archives, photo #NA-1371-1 Patrick James Nolan aka “Paddy” was born on St. Patrick’s Day, 1862 (1864 by Canadian...
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Arthur Sifton was born in St. John’s, Middlesex County, Ontario on October 26, 1859. He had a strict Methodist upbringing and was schooled in London, Ontario along with his younger brother, Clifford. The Sifton family relocated to...
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. A lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist, and patron of Calgary’s arts and culture, Sir James Lougheed was the one of Calgary’s original “city builders”. He was born in Brampton, Ontario on September 1, 1854, and raised in a...