Memoirs and Reflections
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| Title: | Memoirs and Reflections |
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| Description: | From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life.These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art. This volume is both an account of his life in public service and a portrait of a humane, humorous, still optimistic, and always decent man. |
| Authors: | Roy McMurtry |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Justice, Administration of--Ontario, Constitutional history--Canada, Diplomats--Canada--Biography, Judges--Ontario--Biography, Attorneys general--Ontario--Biography |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, HISTORY / Canada / General, LAW / Legal History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life.These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art. This volume is both an account of his life in public service and a portrait of a humane, humorous, still optimistic, and always decent man. |
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| ISBN: | 9781442648302 9781442629028 9781442616615 9781442616622 |
