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The 1932 Corona Hotel Fire
Legal history blog posts from LASA Archivist, Brenda McCafferty… The 1932 Corona Hotel Fire Origins of a Jasper Avenue Edmonton Landmark and the Northwestern Utilities Case: Recently, a Twitter post suggested Edmonton’s light rail transit (LRT) station,...
The 1918 Spanish Flu
Legal history blog posts from LASA Archivist, Brenda McCafferty… (on lockdown, working from home) Archival records at LASA related to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: It may come as no surprise, that a startling number of members of the legal profession in Alberta,...
Calgary Bar Association to Fund LASA Project
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...
Book Review: McLachlin, Beverley. Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.
McLachlin, Beverley. Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Throughout her life, Beverley McLachlin has played many roles: daughter, sister, devoted mother and wife, student, lawyer, academic, judge and finally...
75th Anniversary of D-Day
On June 6, 1944, men from Allied nations fighting Nazi tyranny made a harrowing trip across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy. Leonard Brockington, a Calgary lawyer, was reporting for CBC Radio about the invasion of Europe from the Canadian Destroyer...
Annual General Meeting 2019
Please join the Legal Archives Society of Alberta in welcoming Graham Price, Q.C., LASA’s founding President, for a retrospective discussion on the establishment of the Legal Archives. With nearly 30 years of promoting and preserving Alberta’s legal heritage, LASA...
Archival Collection: the Hon. John H. MacKenzie and Duncan L. McKillop, Q.C. Fonds
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...
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...