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Legal Archives Society of Alberta fonds
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7.2 m of textual records. --89 sound recordings. --32 videocassettes. --30 photographs
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The Legal Archives Society of Alberta (LASA) was incorporated under the Societies Act of Alberta on January 18, 1990. LASA is a not-for-profit society governed by a Board of Directors. The Society collects the archival records of non-government legal organizations, law firms, individual practitioners, and members of the judiciary in Alberta. LASA is the official archival repository for the records of the Law Society of Alberta. The mandate of the Society is to preserve, promote and understand the evolution of law and society in Alberta. To further this mandate, in 1995 LASA began organizing oral history projects to preserve the collective memory of senior and retired members of the Alberta legal community which has evolved into the Calgary Bench and Bar Oral History Project, the Northern Alberta Bench and Bar Oral History Project, and the Alberta Bench and Bar Oral History Project. LASA houses a legal history library on its premises. A more detailed administrative history of LASA can be found in LASA's HISTORY database.
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The fonds consists of materials created or collected by the Legal Archives Society of Alberta from 1987-2003. The fonds consists of these series: 1. Administrative (1987-2001). This series consists of administrative and operational files; financial material; personnel files; appraisal, acquisition and public program files. Series also includes videocassettes and audio cassettes of LASA functions. 2. Lords of the Western Bench (1996). This series consists of research material and photographs collected in LASA's publication "Lords of the Western Bench." 3. Calgary Bench and Bar Oral History Project (1995-2003). This series consists of sound recordings, videocassettes, and transcripts of oral histories conducted with prominent members of the Calgary legal community. Interviews were conducted with: Miles Atkinson, John B. Ballem, H. Beaumont, John D. Bracco, William Robert Brennan, Richard J. Burns, Carole Conrad, George L. Crawford, William Harry Dalgleish, Ray Deyell, R. S. Dinkel, Russell Dixon, David Dworkin, Francis J. (Frank) Fleming, J. (Jack) C. Ebbels, Howard F. Gain, James H. Gray, T. D. Hetherington, Alan D. Hunter, Roger Kerans, F. R. Matthews, Douglas M. McDonald, Hugh Morrison, J. A. Millard, W. Kenneth Moore, K. Murphy, J. J. Olman, J. S. Palmer, Miles Patterson, P. C. G. Power, E. R. Roberts, John (Jack) Robertson, M. E. Shannon, Everett Tingley (court reporter N. W. T.), Susan Turner, Sharon Lynne Van De Veen, Barry Vogel, Justice Waite, Tom Walsh, J. S. Woods, and Eldon M. Wooliams. 4. Alberta Bench and Bar Oral History Project (1999-2000). This series consists of sound recordings, videocassettes, and transcripts of oral histories conducted with prominent members of the Alberta legal community. The Alberta Bench and Bar series can be further divided into three sous-series: Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, and Red Deer. The Lethbridge sous-series includes interviews with: W. C. R. Davidson, Steve Denecky, W. Vaughan Hembroff, Lawrence K. Higa, Ronald Jacobson, Lawrence D. MacLean, F. J. Morgan, Glenn M. Morrison, R. Philip North, Edward E. Rice, Blaine Thacker, and Clarence G. Yanosik. The Medicine Hat sous-series includes interviews with: James Deverell Horsman, Stanley J. Lerner, E. W. N. Macdonald, David J. Maclean, Donald H. Medhurst, R. Barry Miskuski, James S. Pritchard, and L. David Wilkins. The Red Deer sous-series includes interviews with: Thomas Harold Chapman, D. L. Crowe, James L. Foster, Jack K. Holmes, J. M. Johnston, John H. MacKenzie, D. P. MacNaughton, and Robert H. Scammell. 5. Northern Alberta Bench and Bar Oral History Project (2000-2002). This series consists of sound recordings, videocassettes, and transcripts of oral histories conducted with prominent members of the northern Alberta legal communities of Peace River and Grande Prairie. Interviews were conducted with: Claude A. Campbell, Donald Wilbur Freeland, Ernest Arthur Marshall, Joseph P. Marceau, Dwayne Rowe, and Hal Sisson.
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Sound recordings consist of 50 mini discs and 39 audio cassettes. Videocassettes are Hi-8 format.
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Transferred to the archives by LASA between 1992-2003.
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- The material is in English.
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Restricted: Administrative and operational records are restricted for 10 years from the date of the last file. All other records: Consult the archivist regarding availability.
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No finding aid.
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Further accruals are expected.
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LASA also holds the records of several of the individuals interviewed for the various oral history projects. Contact the archivist for further details.<br><br>Record No. RN 56-00-00<br><br>
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- Legal Archives Society of Alberta (Subject)