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By Neil B. Watson The following is a post written by Neil B. Watson, retired Calgary lawyer and former LASA Board Member, and is adapted from his original chapter on John McKinley Cameron, K.C., available in Citymakers: Calgarians after the Frontier, edited by Max...
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Before there was the Honourable Mary Hetherington, the Honourable Catherine Fraser, the Honourable Mary Moreau, and the Honourable Sheilah Martin, there was Ruth Gorman. Though she was only a lawyer for a short period and never a judge, Ruth...
A young Eric L. Harvie in military uniformhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Harvie.jpg [Accessed 2 April 2025]
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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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
by Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist In April 2022, LASA acquired 1,500 books now comprising the Graham Price Legal History Library. Price’s extensive library helps position our repository as a center for academic scholarly research and comparative study. The range...