LEGAL ARCHIVES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA Architypes To understand the evolution of law and society in Alberta is to understand our past... Annual Newsletter Volume 24, Issue 1 Summer 2015 Celebrate LASA’s 25 LASA’s New Website In Memoriam Stanley Livingstone World War I Tough Crimes Anniversary Introducing LASA’s LASA remembers Jones Excerpt from People Review of the latest A look back at the new website with Edward Pipella, Q.C. Remember Alberta Principle and Progress book from Chris Evans establishment of the several new and and the Hon. R.A.F. lawyers who fought detailing the Court of and Lorene Shyba Legal Archives Society improved features Montgomery, Q.C. during World War I Appeal and the First detailing notorious of Alberta Page 2 Page 3 Page 5 World War criminal cases. Pages 1 & 4 Pages 6-7 Page 8 Legal Archives Society of Alberta Turns 25 Celebrating 25 years preserving and promoting Alberta’s legal heritage Take a look back at the establishment of LASA 2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Legal Archives Society of Though Mr. Goodfellow was in favour of the Legal Archives program Alberta working to preserve and promote Alberta’s legal heritage. The continuing, he expressed some concerns about it falling under the direction history of LASA is closely connected to that of the Law Society of Alberta. of the Joint Library Committee. Well before the establishment of LASA, many lawyers in the legal community saw a need to preserve Alberta’s legal history before it was lost. He did not believe that the governing agreement between the Law Society and the Attorney General was broad enough to include the Legal Archives According to records, in the summer of 1987 two historians were contracted program. Moreover, there was concern about staffing. Mr. Klumpenhouwer to conduct a survey of members’ records at the Law Society of Alberta. This occupied a small space at the Calgary Courthouse library and Mr. initial survey led to the indexing of Benchers’ Convocation minutes with Goodfellow was concerned about library staff performing work on behalf of funds provided by the Alberta Law Foundation. On August 1, 1988, a the archival program. Third, Mr. Goodfellow also wanted to ensure that professional archivist, Rick Klumpenhouwer, was hired, on a one-year funding for the archives program was clearly separate from the Joint Library contract, to perform a more in-depth assessment. He worked out of a small Committee. He was concerned that an application to the Alberta Law space provided at the old Calgary Courthouse on 4th Street. Foundation, under the auspices of Joint Library Committee, might result in confusion about the separate roles each entity performs. Fourth, there was At the close of his one-year contract, Mr. Klumpenhouwer recommended a an understandable unease about privacy and the disclosure of information to dedicated program that would preserve the history of Alberta’s legal and non-Benchers, especially on matters relating to discipline and active judicial communities. There were some who raised concerns. For example, members. in a letter dated May 29, 1989, Donald Goodfellow wrote to Robert Scammell expressing some concerns about the proposed Legal Archives program. Continued on Page 4 Volume 24, Issue 1 1 LEGAL ARCHIVES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA LASA’s New Website We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new website! After two • Multimedia - explore Alberta’s legal heritage using LASA’s new months of hard work and dedication, we are delighted to have officially multimedia page with our featured exhibit (currently celebrating war launched the new site at our recent Annual General Meeting on June 10, heroes), our twelve virtual galleries exploring different features of 2015. The new site is www.legalarchives.ca. Alberta’s legal history, and oral history interviews with prominent Alberta lawyers and jurists dating back to 1980. Immediately you will notice streamlined menus, simple navigation and easy • Online Donations and Purchasing - LASA unveiled a way to allow access to the information you are looking for. visitors to make an online donation as well as purchasing books online through secure payment. Our goal with this new site is to provide our visitors an easier way to learn about the Legal Archives Society of Alberta’s services and programs and also We will be continually expanding and updating our online content to allow visitors to browse information based on their own interests. The (especially under the Multimedia section) to bring you information related new site is interactive and gives better access to who we are and the services to Alberta’s legal heritage and the work of the Legal Archives Society of and programs LASA provides. Alberta. We encourage your to bookmark it, check back often, or sign up to receive email updates when new content is added. Things you’ll love about the new LASA website: We hope you find the new website with a fresh look easy to navigate and • Homepage - see up coming events, featured exhibits, and quick links to access the information you are seeking. Our new site is also tablet and where you want to go with one click. mobile friendly We also hope to continue improving the site so that it best • About - where you can find more information on the vision and mandate serves how LASA communicates with members.. for the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, the core programs at LASA, and our most recent Annual Reports. We would also like the thank the amazing staff at o2creative who took their • Services - includes assistance with research projects, creating exhibits to time, energy and vision to make this website what it is. commemorate special occasions, and consulting services to help determine records of enduring, archival value. For any questions, feedback, or comments, please contact us via • Publications - includes a listing of all of LASA’s book publications, online www.legalarchives.ca/contact. newsletters dating back to 2005, and the new ‘Occasional Papers’ section to distribute ideas on the history of law and society in Alberta. 2 Summer 2015 LEGAL ARCHIVES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA In Memoriam Brenda McCafferty Left: Edward Pipella, Q.C. Above: R.A.F Montgomery at the podium during the dedication ceremony. Edward Pipella, Q.C. extradition back to Calgary, was capably Calgary. He was named Q.C. in 1977 and was maneuvered by Edward Pipella, the kind and appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench in It is with sadness we learned of the recent passing competent lawyer who aided my in-laws through November 1982. of Edward Pipella of Calgary on October 30, 2014. this traumatic life event. Countless other clients of A long-time supporter of LASA, and a friendly face Mr. Pipella assuredly make the same claim. He Records at LASA include 14 metres of judicial at LASA’s Historical Dinners, he will be sadly was a most distinctive personality in Calgary’s papers dating 1982-1998, and an oral history missed. The majority of Pipella’s work involved legal community. interview conducted between 2007 and 2009. personal injury claims and over the years he helped Another recent donation was his speech entitled hundreds of clients, - forging a strong reputation Honourable Robert A.F. Montgomery, Q.C. “Wolfe Address” presented on September 13, 2009 for himself as a lawyer in the process. A graduate at South Mount Royal Park in Calgary marking the of the University of British Columbia Law School It is with great sadness that we learned of the commemoration of the General Wolfe plinth and in 1957, Mr. Pipella was admitted to the Alberta Bar recent passing of Robert (Bob) Archibald Fraser statute unveiled on the park grounds. The on June 17, 1958, and in 2008 celebrated his 50-year Montgomery in Calgary on Thursday, April 2, 2015 ceremony took place on the 250th anniversary of practice milestone with the Law Society of Alberta. at the age of 86. Bob was the dearly loved husband the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, where of Margaret (nee Macleod). He will be fondly both General James Wolfe and General Louis- On a personal note, my daughter is friends with his remembered by LASA for his love and promotion Joseph Marquis de Montcalm died. The statue is granddaughter and Mr. Pipella represented my in- of legal history. located on the north end of South Mount Royal laws in an accident claim during the early seventies Park, flanked by Wolfe and Montcalm streets and concerning my mother-in-law and her three young Bob was born on July 5, 1928, in Toronto, Ontario. Quebec avenue. R.A.F. Montgomery was the children (including my husband). The car accident He was educated at St. Andrew’s College in Aurora organizer and impetus behind the resurrection of involved a cement truck driver who turned Ontario, Royal Canada Naval College, H.M.C.S. the statue. Originally, it had been acquired by illegally in front of her vehicle near Chinook Royal Roads in Victoria, British Columbia, Queen’s Calgary lawyer Eric Harvie in 1966 who donated it Centre. In those days children were not buckled University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University to the City of Calgary. It stood outside the into car seats or seat belts. This was the case when of Toronto. Following law school, he worked with Planetarium until 2000 and was then transferred to my husband was propelled on impact across his the legal branch of National Revenue Taxation in a City storage until it was rediscovered by R.A.F in two younger siblings and knocked unconscious Ottawa and later with the law firm of Borden Elliot 2008.