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Why is Legal History Important: The Early Calgary Contribution
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Originally a speech presented to the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners on October 7, 2025 What is Legal History In 1973, legal scholar R.C.B. Risk published “A Prospectus for Canadian Legal History” in the Dalhousie Law Journal. ...
Book Review: Adams, Eric M. and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Having spent much of my youth in British Columbia, including summers with my maternal grandparents on Vancouver Island and my paternal grandparents in Kitimat, I had never before heard of the plight of Japanese Canadians. During my...
Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, Part II: Female Faculty that Shaped the Legal Profession
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Previous posts in LASA’s “City Builders” series have focused on individuals and their contributions to the city of Calgary over the last 150 years. The following post – in two parts – will examine the Faculty of Law at the University...
Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, Part I: What’s History Got to do with it?
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Previous posts in LASA’s “City Builders” series have focused on individuals and their contributions to the city of Calgary over the last 150 years. The following post – in two parts – will examine the Faculty of Law at the University...
2025 Annual General Meeting
LASA hosted its Annual General Meeting on June 11, 2025, via Microsoft Teams. Members of the current Board of Directors re-appointed for a two-year term are the Hon. Blair Nixon, the Hon. Kevin Feehan, the Hon. Dallas Miller, Leanne Young, K.C., Wayne Malcolm...
Red Deer Historical Dinner
Featuring our guest speaker: Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal, Supreme Court of Canada
The Future of Judicial Independence and Improving Court Administration
On October 23, 2024 and February, 27, 2025, LASA hosted our Annual Historical Dinners in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Kent Davidson, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench who spoke about the importance of...
Honouring and Remembering Together
Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist Captain Walter Lloyd Hutton W. Lloyd Hutton was born April 25, 1915, in Lacombe, Alberta. The son of George Gladstone Hall and Annie Mary Hutton of Calgary. He was well-known in Calgary and in Edmonton university circles by...
Honouring and Remembering Together
Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist Lieutenant Donald Patton McDaniel “A healthy young man with brown eyes and brown hair. He was 5’11” tall and weighted 188 pounds. Described as a big, strong man, jovial, smiley and devoted to the military.” Known as “Deep” to his...