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On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria and heir to the multinational Hapsburg Empire was assassinated on the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This event was the culmination of growing nationalistic anxieties across southern and...
Constance Backhouse, a prominent Canadian legal historian and scholar, delves into the role racism plays in the justice system in her latest book, Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case. RDS was the case of Rodney Smalls, a Canadian teenager...
When Canada joined the British in fighting Germany in August of 1914, Albertans from all walks of life lined up to volunteer on behalf of King and Country. Lawyers, law students, and other members of the legal profession were no exception to this particular wave of...
“Your husband is dead. He died in this hospital at 4 p.m.” This was the first line of a telegram Alice B. Jones - Stanley Jones’s wife - received from fellow prisoner of war, Eugene P. Buonaparte, informing her of her husband’s death. The telegram went on to...
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....
A broad definition of a political state trial is one that involves the political interests of the government. Legal Historian F. Murray Greenwood had the idea for a series of books, inspired by an English history of state trials, that would trace political state...
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...
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. While watching the coronation of King Charles III last month, you may have noticed a large stone at the ceremony for the newly crowned King. This is the Stone of Scone (also known as the Stone of Destiny) and it has quite an intriguing...
My article in Alberta History about Edmonton lawyer and human rights activist, Gordon S.D. Wright. Gordon S.D. Wright and Charter...
Medicine Hat, a small town on the South Saskatchewan River in southern Alberta, known for natural gas, coal, clay, and farmland garnered national attention during World War II for the murder of Nazi POWs while interned at a prisoner-of-war camp. Building on...