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Your Husband is Dead! The Story of Alberta Lawyer and Soldier, Major Stanley Livingstone Jones
“Your husband is dead. He died in this hospital at 4 p.m.” This was the first line of a telegram Alice B. Jones - Stanley Jones’s wife - received from fellow prisoner of war, Eugene P. Buonaparte, informing her of her husband’s death. The telegram went on to...
From the Archives
By Brenda McCafferty, MARM, Archivist A recent donation of Alberta law stamps from the late Honourable Syd E. Wood, K.C., harkens memories of the Wood family legal legacy in Edmonton, and highlights First and Second World War remembrances. Sydney Wood, Q.C....
An Evening with the Chief Justice
On May 4 and October 19, 2023, LASA hosted our Annual Historical Dinners in Calgary and Edmonton respectively. Both were firsts for the annual events since November 2019 in Edmonton, and January 2020 in Calgary. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Ritu...
Book Review — Wright, Barry, Susan Binnie, and Eric Tucker, Eds. Canadian State Trials, Volume V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
A broad definition of a political state trial is one that involves the political interests of the government. Legal Historian F. Murray Greenwood had the idea for a series of books, inspired by an English history of state trials, that would trace political state...
100 Years On: Bootlegging, Murder, and Executions An Alberta Story
LASA hosted its first Annual Historical Dinner in Lethbridge, Alberta, at the Galt Museum and Archives on Thursday, April 13, 2023. We were delighted to welcome Dr. Adriana Davies, author and historian, who spoke about an historical case that took place in...
Ian Hamilton, the Stone of Scone and…Alberta?
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. While watching the coronation of King Charles III last month, you may have noticed a large stone at the ceremony for the newly crowned King. This is the Stone of Scone (also known as the Stone of Destiny) and it has quite an intriguing...
My Experience at LASA
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...
Alberta, Human Rights and the Move for Change in Czechoslovakia: Charter 77 and Gordon S.D. Wright
My article in Alberta History about Edmonton lawyer and human rights activist, Gordon S.D. Wright. Gordon S.D. Wright and Charter...
Book Review — Greenfield, Nathan M. Hanged in Medicine Hat: Murders in a Nazi Prisoner-of-War Camp, and the Disturbing True Story of Canada’s Last Mass Execution. Toronto: Sutherland House, 2022.
Medicine Hat, a small town on the South Saskatchewan River in southern Alberta, known for natural gas, coal, clay, and farmland garnered national attention during World War II for the murder of Nazi POWs while interned at a prisoner-of-war camp. Building on...
Book Review — Woeste, Victoria Saker. Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
The term antisemitism almost immediately, and understandably, conjures up images of the Nazi state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews between 1933 and 1945. However, antisemitism is not only synonymous with the rise of the Nazi Party. The hatred of...