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We Have Not Forgotten: Call to the Bar and Remembrance Ceremony
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...
An Evening with The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
LASA hosted its Annual Historical Fundraising Dinner in Edmonton on March 1, 2018 at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald. We were delighted to welcome the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, retired Chief Justice of Canada, who spoke about past achievements and future challenges...
Book Review: Women in Criminal Justice: True Cases By & About Canadian Women & the Law
The fourth installment in what is arguably the most unique and compelling true crime series available today. From the perspective of a non-lawyer (as this author is), this book is compelling for two reasons. First, each chapter is written by a lawyer or...
Women in Criminal Justice — Book Release Events in Calgary and Edmonton
Women in Criminal Justice: True Cases By & About Canadian Women and the Law Book Four in the True Cases Series
After Word: The Conclusion of the Emilio Picariello and Florence Lassandro Story by Justice Kevin Feehan
The final chapter in the fascinating Alberta story of Alberta's most famous Prohibition rumrunners.
Re-Thinking Justice: A Judge’s Continuing Struggle for Real Justice
Calgary Historical Dinner, October 19, 2017
The Honourable J.V.H. Milvain, Q.C.
The Honourable James Valentine Hogarth Milvain was born near Lundbreck in the Livingstone District of the Northwest Territories during a snow storm on Valentine’s Day, 1904. The son of an English immigrant to Canada in 1888, his mother Winnifred Helen MacKintosh was the niece of G.H. MacKintosh, Lieutenant Governor of the NWT.
Lawyer, Husband, Soldier, Wife: The Story of Fred Stanley Albright and Evelyn Kelly Albright
Frederick Stanley Albright was born in Beamsville, Ontario, on March 23, 1883. After growing up in rural Ontario, Mr. Albright moved to Toronto where he attended Victoria College, University of Toronto receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1908. It was there that he met Evelyn Kelly, born on November 13, 1889, in Owen Sound, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History in 1912.
Violet King: Canada’s First Black Female Lawyer
February marks Black History Month in Canada, when we acknowledge and pay tribute to the complex history of struggle and perseverance that has marked the black Canadian experience.