Memoirs and Reflections /
McMurtry, Roy
Memoirs and Reflections / Roy McMurtry. - 1 online resource (640 p.) : 56 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442629028 9781442616615
10.3138/9781442616615 doi
Attorneys general--Ontario--Biography.
Judges--Ontario--Biography.
Justice, Administration of--Ontario.
DISCOUNT-C.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges.
KEO1054 / .M368 2013eb
340.092
Memoirs and Reflections / Roy McMurtry. - 1 online resource (640 p.) : 56 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442629028 9781442616615
10.3138/9781442616615 doi
Attorneys general--Ontario--Biography.
Judges--Ontario--Biography.
Justice, Administration of--Ontario.
DISCOUNT-C.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges.
KEO1054 / .M368 2013eb
340.092