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Archival description
CA ON00311 PF157 · Collection · 1834-1911

Collection consists of miscellaneous admission and call certificates issued by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the 19th century and early 20th century.

Albert Abramson collection
CA ON00311 PF201 · Collection · 1930-1979

Collection consists of framed photographs accumulated by Albert Abramson, a lawyer with law firm Cassels Brock & Blackwell. These photographs are portraits of five lawyers: John Bell Holden, Sidney Hamlin Robinson, Percy Claire Finlay, James Young Murdoch, and William Smith Walton. Each was a member of the law firm Holden, Murdoch, Walton & Beatty in Toronto during the 1930s.

Abramson, Albert, 1923-2006
Alice Ross Brown collection
CA ON00311 PF124 · Collection · 1836

Collection consists of a subpoena issued to Hector Ross in 1836.

Brown, Alice Ross, fl. 1963
Andrew Tolmie collection
CA ON00311 PF126 · Collection · 1846

Collection consists of a statement of defence made in a divorce action, Outer House, Scotland, in 1846.

Tolmie, Andrew
Barry Pepper collection
CA ON00311 PF17 · Collection · 1844, 1990, 1995

Collection consists of records accumulated by Barry Pepper. Included are photographs of exterior views of Osgoode Hall and the southeast gate. The photographs were used for the bicentennial stamp submission by the Bicentennial Committee, of which Pepper was a member. The collection also includes material collected by Pepper during the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday Tribute, and a land grant.

CA ON00311 PF217 · Collection · 1875-1902

Collection consists of legal documents accumulated by Benjamin Luxenberg, Q.C. The deeds and mortgages all relate to a parcel of land at lot 99 on the north side of Defoe Street (now Adelaide Street West), Toronto.

CA ON00311 PF135 · Collection · [18--?]

Collection consists of three scrapbooks pertaining to prominent British and Canadian jurists from the 1500s to the 1800s, created and/or accumulated by an unknown source. The scrapbooks contain prints and other illustrations, biographies relating to these jurists, as well as a number of Quebec court documents. While the biographies and illustrations are organized by nationality, the arrangement of records takes a roughly chronological order.

CA ON00311 PF10 · Collection · 1954

Collection consists of copies of typed minutes of the Council of the Canadian Bar Association. Also included is correspondence, a form, a list, and a schedule regarding the 1955 Commonwealth and Empire Law Conference.

Canadian Bar Association
CA ON00311 PF136 · Collection · 1867

Collection was accumulated by Charles Ernest Smalley-Baker, a New Brunswick-born lawyer and Dean Emeritus of Osgoode Hall Law School. The collection is comprised of one legal document, a English letters patent issued in 1867.

Smalley-Baker, Charles Ernest, 1891-1972
CA ON00311 PF127 · Collection · 1888

Collection consists of a sworn declaration by Frederick J. Fulton, of Hamilton, Ontario.

Scime, Charles Samuel
Christopher Moore collection
CA ON00311 PF44 · Collection · [between 1980 and 1996], [ca. 2000]

Collection consists of photographs accumulated by Christopher Moore while writing his book, "The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's lawyers, 1797-1997", and an unpublished manuscript by John Arnup on the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Moore, Christopher
C.K. Temple collection
CA ON00311 PF123 · Collection · 1864

Collection consists of a marriage settlement from 1864. It was donated to the archives by C.K. Temple, possibly an ancestor of the parties named in the marriage settlement, Charles Vesey Macdonald Temple and Mary Jones Plenderleath.

Temple, C.K.
D'Arcy Martin collection
CA ON00311 PF120 · Collection · 1836, 1842

Collection consists of two marriage settlement documents collected by D'Arcy Argue Counsell Martin, a lawyer in Hamilton, Ontario. His ancestor, Reverend Richard Martin, is named as a trustee in one of the documents.

Martin, D'Arcy Argue Counsell, 1898-1992
David Crack collection
CA ON00311 PF47 · Collection · 1947, 1977

Collection consists of photographs collected by David Crack.

Crack, David E.
David Fowler collection
CA ON00311 PF165 · Collection · 1918

Collection consists of a student version of the Osgoode Hall Law School class of 1918 composite photograph.

Donald Plaxton collection
CA ON00311 PF119 · Collection · 1616

Collection consists of a deed dated 1616, signed by Edmund Bury and written in Latin.

Plaxton, Donald Gordon Wilson
Edward J. Houston collection
CA ON00311 PF177 · Collection · [1949?]-1988

Collection consists of programmes for various legal events, a letter, an Osgoode Hall Law School students' handbook, and a photograph, all maintained by Edward J. Houston. A signed copy of "The Honourable Society of Osgoode Hall" by C.H.A. Armstrong, which originated from the library of Sir Lyman Duff, has been transferred to the Archives' reference library.

Houston, Edward James, 1918-2003
CA ON00311 PF87 · Collection · [1941?]-[1948?]

Collection consists of two volumes maintained by Frank J.C. Newbould. The collection includes a case citation notebook maintained by Cyril F.H. Carson and a printed chart of Privy Council decisions with regards to the British North America Act.

Newbould, Francis James Campbell
CA ON00311 PF145 · Collection · [1916?]-[1933?]

Collection consists of records pertaining to the professional career of Frederick Montye Morson, a Quebec-born lawyer and judge who practised in the City of Toronto. These records relate primarily to Morson's retirement from the bench in 1931. The records in this collection include a speech, certificates and photographs.

Morson, Frederick Montye, 1851-1944
George Shepley collection
CA ON00311 PF12 · Collection · 1907-1916

Collection consists of loose newspaper clippings on the death of Shepley and a scrapbook containing clippings on his involvement with the Royal Commission on Life Insurance. It is believed the clippings were accumulated by Shepley's two daughters.

Shepley, George Ferguson, 1852-1916