Leonard Brockington: Esteemed City Solicitor of Calgary and Renowned International Speaker
Provincial Archives of Alberta, J.312/2
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The Nolans — Paddy and Henry Gratton: Irish Charms of the Calgary Bar
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...
Alberta’s First Chief Justice: Arthur Sifton
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...
Notable Calgary City Builder: Sir James Lougheed
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...
Fort Calgary was founded and named by a lawyer who became the first resident judge…
In 1860, James F. Macleod passed his bar examinations at Osgoode Hall and articled at the Kingston law office of Alexander Campbell. He practiced law for a decade at Bowmanville Ontario (Durham) however, his true interest lay in serving in the militia.
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...
Remote Justice: The Stipendiary Magistrates Court of the Northwest Territories, 1905-1955
A thesis publication on Remote Justice by Graham E. Price, with forward by Stacy Kaufield
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...