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[between 1890 and 1910]-1980, photocopied 2008 (Creation)
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- Carson, Cyril Frederick Harshaw, 1900-1980
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3.36 m of textual records
165 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25.3 x 50.5 cm or smaller
25 photographs : b&w negatives ; 9.5 x 15 cm
1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
1 drawing : sketch, black ink ; 18.3 x 19.5 cm
1 bag
3 gowns
1 folio case
1 briefcase
1 overvest
3 vests
1 pair of trousers
2 tab holders
3 collars
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Cyril Frederick Harshaw Carson was born on 18 May 1900 in Toronto, Ontario, to D.J. Carson and Ermine Harshaw. He attended Humberside Collegiate and was admitted to Osgoode Hall Law School in 1916, where he was an Osgoode Hall gold medalist when called to the Bar in 1921. While attending Osgoode Hall Law School, Carson was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity (Osgoode Hall Chapter). Commencing legal practice with the law firm of Tilley, Johnston, Thomson and Parmenter, he remained with that firm and its successor, Tilley, Carson and Findlay, for his entire legal career. Carson was appointed a King’s Counsel in 1936. That same year, Carson was elected a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, a position he held until his death in 1980. He served as Treasurer of the Law Society from 1950 to 1958. Carson was active in several legal organizations, serving as President of the Lawyers Club in 1932 and Honourary Treasurer of the Canadian Bar Association from 1944 to 1948. During this time, he also served as General Counsel to the Bank of Nova Scotia and as Associate General Counsel for Ontario to the Canadian Bankers Association. In 1957, he was awarded an honorary LL.D. from Queen's University. From the early 1950s to the later 1970s, Carson was a director with several Canadian companies, including the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Hiram Walker-Gooderham and Worts Limited, Canada Permanent Trust Company, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited, and the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. Carson died in Toronto on 22 October 1980.
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Fonds consists of records relating to the personal life, and legal and business career, of Cyril F.H. Carson. Records in the fonds document his association with the Law Society of Upper Canada as Treasurer and later a life bencher, his work as a partner in the law firm of Tilley, Carson and Findlay, and his role as a director for a number of Canadian companies. Records also relate to his service as a lecturer in the Bar Admission Course, various Law Society matters, and the organization of personal and business trips. The fonds includes correspondence, invoices, case materials, docket ledgers, memoranda, lecture notes, notices, minutes of meetings, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a draft memoir written by Carson, and other textual material. Also included are photographs depicting Carson at various events, his trips by boat to England, Osgoode Hall Law School class of 1921 reunions, Canadian Bar Association dinners, business meetings and corporate dinners, and with friends during social gatherings. Several artifacts relating to Carson are also included with the fonds. The fonds also includes newspaper clippings, a photograph, a case notebook, and a sketch relating to William Norman Tilley, a senior partner at the firm of Tilley & Carson.
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No restrictions on access, unless records contain personal information or confidential business information of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Access to the case material and docket ledgers is closed.
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