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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...
I am a second year Library Information Technology student from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). In my program we are required to take part in two three-week practicums in our last semester of study. I was fortunate enough to be placed at the...
On behalf of the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, I would like to thank the Calgary Bar Association for funding the completion of a publication using LASA's vast collection of Oral History interviews. The edited collection of stories from LASA’s Oral History...
On April 9, 1985, James Keegstra, a high school Social Studies teacher from Eckville, Alberta, was put on trial for willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group, the Jewish people. Between September 1978 and December 1982, Keegstra communicated...
On November 9, 2018 there was a special Call to the Alberta Bar for 37 Alberta law students who left their legal studies and paid the ultimate price on the war fields of Europe during WWI. Sponsored and organized by the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, this event...
