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In history, context is everything. While detailing isolated incidents may be of historical interest, a comparative analysis can bring the richer complexity of a period to life. John McLaren achieves this in his 2011 book on judicial discipline in the British...
February is Black History month in Canada. It is a time when, across the country, people, organizations, and institutions recognize and celebrate the achievements of African Canadians. Canada’s history is rife with stories of the many contributions that African...
Campbell, Lyndsay, Ted McCoy, and Mélanie Méthot, eds. Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2020. In 1973, Professor of Law, R.C.B. Risk, presented “A Prospectus for Canadian Legal History” at Dalhousie Law...
Legal history blog posts from LASA Archivist, Brenda McCafferty… The 1932 Corona Hotel Fire Origins of a Jasper Avenue Edmonton Landmark and the Northwestern Utilities Case: Recently, a Twitter post suggested Edmonton’s light rail transit (LRT) station,...
Legal history blog posts from LASA Archivist, Brenda McCafferty… (on lockdown, working from home) Archival records at LASA related to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: It may come as no surprise, that a startling number of members of the legal profession in Alberta,...
The final chapter in the fascinating Alberta story of Alberta's most famous Prohibition rumrunners.
The Honourable James Valentine Hogarth Milvain was born near Lundbreck in the Livingstone District of the Northwest Territories during a snow storm on Valentine’s Day, 1904. The son of an English immigrant to Canada in 1888, his mother Winnifred Helen MacKintosh was the niece of G.H. MacKintosh, Lieutenant Governor of the NWT.
Frederick Stanley Albright was born in Beamsville, Ontario, on March 23, 1883. After growing up in rural Ontario, Mr. Albright moved to Toronto where he attended Victoria College, University of Toronto receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1908. It was there that he met Evelyn Kelly, born on November 13, 1889, in Owen Sound, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History in 1912.
February marks Black History Month in Canada, when we acknowledge and pay tribute to the complex history of struggle and perseverance that has marked the black Canadian experience.