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Black History Month Every February, Canadians across the country are invited to honour the legacy of Black Canadians and their communities. Here, at the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, we are acknowledging the transformative work of Black lawyers and judges,...
Black History Month Every February, Canadians across the country are invited to honour the legacy of Black Canadians and their communities. Here, at the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, we are acknowledging the transformative work of Black lawyers and judges,...
Black History Month Every February, Canadians across the country are invited to honour the legacy of Black Canadians and their communities. Here, at the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, we are acknowledging the transformative work of Black lawyers and judges,...
Crime fascinates the public. Whether it is watching television and the movies, or reading detective and crime novels, the criminal justice system enticed the public long before the dawn of the Internet. It could be argued that the fictionalized stories and...
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.