File consists of records pertaining to the 1961 Law Society bencher election. Records include a list of candidates, correspondence sent and received by Howland concerning support for other bencher candidates and himself, and correspondence sent and received by Howland regarding congratulations from other lawyers on his election as bencher.
File consists of a list of candidates for the Law Society's 1966 bencher election and correspondence sent and received by Howland pertaining to congratulations on his election as a bencher. Also included are similar pieces of correspondence pertaining to Howland's 1969 election as bencher and correspondence sent and received by Howland pertaining to support for other bencher candidates.
File consists of blank forms pertaining to the Land Titles Act, Howland's 1964 notes for his lecture given as part of the Bar Admission Course's real estate section, a copy of a letter sent from Colin D. Hadfield to W.C. Yates pertaining to the Boundaries Act, the Certification of Titles Act and the Land Titles Act, as well as a public notice from Ontario's Department of Insurance regarding the Mortgage Brokers Registration Act of 1960. Also included in the file is a copy of the Osgoode Hall Law School calendar for 1964-65.
File consists of correspondence received by Howland From W.L. Cowing from the Canada Law Book Company regarding developing a publication on mortgages. Also included in the file is a copy of a 12 April 1984 letter sent by Justice John D. Arnup to Law Society Treasurer Laura L. Legge regarding space in Osgoode Hall owned by the Crown.
File consists of letters of congratulations sent to Howland on his appointment to the Bench in January 1975. Also included in the file are copies of Howland's replies to these letters.
File consists of letters of congratulations sent to Howland by legal colleagues on the occasion of his election as Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada in May 1968, as well as copies of Howland's replies to those letters.
File consists of letters of congratulations sent to Howland by legal colleagues on the occasion of his election as Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada in May 1968, as well as copies of Howland's replies to those letters.
File consists of correspondence received by Howland in his capacity as a Law Society bencher and then as Treasurer, pertaining to a variety of subjects. Correspondents include Patrick Furlong, Brian Bucknall, A.A. Wishart, Andrew Lawson, and John H. Lytle. Also included are correspondence pertaining to and programme from the unveiling of a plaque commemorating William Pearce Howland on 16 August 1967.
File consists of correspondence and memoranda relating to the resignation of Allan Leal as Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, as well as the appointment of Alan W. Mewett as Acting Dean.
Item is Howland's essay submission for the Wallace Nesbitt Trust Prize essay competition, written in his second year of study at Osgoode Hall Law School.
File consists of the following articles accumulated by Howland pertaining to divorce and the law in Canada: "Domestic contracts and rights after death" by James C. MacDonald, "The pre-trial conference - maximizing the chances of settlement" by Gertrude Speigel, and "A comparison of the support provisions under the Family Law Act, 1986, and the Divorce Act, 1985" by D. Roger Timms. Also included in the file are panel discussion questions as well as a copy of Bill 59, an act to reform the law respecting property rights and support obligations between married persons and in other family relationships.
File consists of handwritten notes created and used by Howland for speeches made on the occasion of Bora Laskin's appointment as Chief Justice of Canada in December 1973 and for a speech made on 17 January 1969 for an unidentified event where he introduced president of the Ontario Bar Association J.J. Saucier, editor of the Canadian Bar Review Ronald Merriam, and Dean Maxwell Cohen of the Faculty of Law at McGill University.
Drawing of the passage between the new court house at 361 University Avenue and the north side of Osgoode Hall, including the Osgoode Hall property line demarcation and the location of planters and flower beds.
Item is a guest list detailing names and addresses for invitees to a 13 February 1990 reception for Howland and his wife on the occasion of his retirement from the bench.
File consists of a variety of publications issued by the Law Society, including the Law Students' Handbook 1951-1952; a 1953 programme for "Hell to pay", a mock trial by Kenneth Jarvis; a letter sent to Law Society members on behalf of the Law Society Foundation, appealing for donations for a bursary fund for law students; and a list of benchers for election in 1956. Also included in the file is a copy of a letter sent by Howland to W. Earl Smith on 2 Feb. 1950 regarding Howland's receipt of a cheque for his services as a lecturer in Mortgages between 1949 and 1950, as well as a handwritten letter on Osgoode Hall Law School letterhead dated 20 June 1963 sent to Howland by Osgoode dean Allan Leal.
Item is a letter from Mewett to Howland pertaining to Howland's relinquishing of his role as instructor of Conveyancing and Mortgages at Osgoode Hall Law School.
File consists of records pertaining to the Law Society's Building Committee in 1968 and 1969, for which Howland served as the chairman. These records include reports to Convocation, meeting minutes, a 2 May 1969 draft contractor agreement for alterations to Osgoode Hall, a memorandum regarding office needs for 1966-67, a preliminary estimate of a future expansion of the Great Library, and instructions from the Building Committee for project no. 68-22.
