Red Deer Historical Dinner
Featuring our guest speaker: Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal, Supreme Court of Canada
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The Future of Judicial Independence and Improving Court Administration
On October 23, 2024 and February, 27, 2025, LASA hosted our Annual Historical Dinners in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Kent Davidson, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench who spoke about the importance of...
Calgary Historical Dinner 2024
On June 19, 2024, LASA hosted its Annual Historical Dinner in Calgary. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Peter Martin of the Court of Appeal of Alberta who spoke to us about the changes he witnessed in the law and the courts over his 50 years of...
2024 Annual General Meeting
LASA hosted its Annual General Meeting on June 12, 2024, via ZOOM. Members of the current Board of Directors re-appointed for a two-year term are Hon. Madam Justice Jo’Anne Strekaf, Aaron Bickman, K.C., Brian Kiers, and Leslie Stitt. LASA also welcomes...
Who Is Going To Run This Country? The Victoria Park Barracks and the Conscription Crisis, 1918
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. *Originally a speech presented to the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners on January 22, 2024. “Who is going to run this country, the Chief Justice or the Government?”[1] This was a question put to deputy sheriff, John McCaffary by Major...
Born Unequal: Alberta and the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. *Originally a speech presented to the Calgary Association of Lifelong Leaners on February 26, 2024. On September 1, 1905, the Alberta Act brought the province into Confederation, but it was not a full partnership. Under section 109 of the...
An Evening with the Chief Justice
On May 4 and October 19, 2023, LASA hosted our Annual Historical Dinners in Calgary and Edmonton respectively. Both were firsts for the annual events since November 2019 in Edmonton, and January 2020 in Calgary. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Ritu...
100 Years On: Bootlegging, Murder, and Executions An Alberta Story
LASA hosted its first Annual Historical Dinner in Lethbridge, Alberta, at the Galt Museum and Archives on Thursday, April 13, 2023. We were delighted to welcome Dr. Adriana Davies, author and historian, who spoke about an historical case that took place in...
A Pandemic and Two Postponements: Commemorating the Centenary of the Medicine Hat Courthouse
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. LASA hosted its first Annual Historical Dinner in two and a half years in Medicine Hat, Alberta, at the Medalta in the Historic Clay District on Thursday, June 2, 2022. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Russell Brown, Justice of...
Annual General Meeting 2019
Please join the Legal Archives Society of Alberta in welcoming Graham Price, Q.C., LASA’s founding President, for a retrospective discussion on the establishment of the Legal Archives. With nearly 30 years of promoting and preserving Alberta’s legal heritage, LASA...