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- 1890-1984 (Creation)
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69.5 cm of textual records
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The Calgary Bar Association was established on May 12, 1890 by Calgary lawyers P. McCarthy, J.B. Smith, E.P. Davis, T.B. Lafferty, P.J. Nolan, A.L. Sifton, J.R. Costigan, E. Cave, N.D. Beck, T.C. West, John C.F. Bown, J.P.J. Jephson and W.L. Bernard. It was incorporated provincially in 1916, with the objects of advancing the interests and upholding the honour of the legal profession, and to encourage cordial relations among its members. In 1982 CBA sponsored an oral history project which was funded, in part, by the Alberta Law Foundation. Project staff contacted senior members of southern Alberta's Bench and Bar and encouraged them to speak anecdotally about their careers and contemporaries in the profession. A total of 38 individuals were interviewed.
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Gift of Calgary Bar Association, 1965-1987.
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- The fonds consists of constitution (1916), minutes (1890-1904, 1906-1959), financial statements (1915-1916) and transcripts of interviews with members of southern Alberta's legal profession (1982-1984).
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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There will be no further additions if CBA makes the Legal Archives Society its official repository.
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- Allen, Gordon H. (Subject)
- Barnett, Bill "Barney" (Subject)
- Barron, R.H. (Subject)
- Bowker, W.F. (Subject)
- Bredin, Edward M. (Subject)
- Burns, Chester V. (Subject)
- Cumming, Spencer (Subject)
- Egbert, William Gordon (Subject)
- Fenerty, R.L. (Subject)
- Gilchrist, A. (Subject)
- Gorman, Ruth (Subject)
- Henricks, A.W. (Subject)
- Jardine, Rollie (Subject)
- Jones, M. E. (Subject)
- Kush, Eugene (Subject)
- McCaffary, Marie (Subject)
- MacDonald, A.W. (Subject)
- McDonald, D.P. (Subject)
- MacKimmie, Ross Anderson (Subject)
- McLaws, D.P. (Subject)
- MacLean, L.D. (Subject)
- Malcolm, Tom (Subject)
- Manning, Ernest Charles (Subject)
- Martland, Ronald (Subject)
- Milvain, James Valentine Hogarth (Subject)
- Patterson, Ruth (Subject)
- Pritchard, J.M. (Subject)
- Saucier, J.J. (Subject)
- Smith, Arthur Ryan (Subject)
- Swanson, Cecil (Subject)
- Vallance, Peter S. (Subject)
- Laycraft, James Herbert "Herb" (Subject)
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Monday, April 20, 2015