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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...
Graham Edwin Price, K.C. Calgary, Alberta April 13, 1947 – January 12, 2024 On January 12, 2024, Graham Price, founder and long-time President of the Legal Archives Society of Alberta (LASA), passed away in Calgary, Alberta. In addition to being an excellent...
Frederick Stanley Albright was born in Beamsville, Ontario, on March 23, 1883. After his childhood in rural Ontario, Frederick moved to Toronto where he attended Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political...
The life and career of Arthur Gardner Lincoln was unlike most other Alberta lawyers who fought in World War I. Following a long and onerous process to become a lawyer – interrupted by war and coupled with a fair bit of ambiguity – it seems that Lincoln never...
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...