Without Prejudice (Spring 2009)

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In This Issue
EDITORS
Courtney LeBlanc MESSAGES p.2
Catherine Miller
Student Editor
Dana Christianson (2L) FEATURES P.4
Contributing Writers Contributing Photographers & Artists
Tracey M. Bailey Dr. Joanna Harrington CENTRES SS TES P- 34
Christine Block Tim Hellsten Photography
Eleanor Boddy, QC Images of Distinction
Tim Burnham Fred Katz Photographic Ltd. FACULTY
Timothy Christian, QC Courtney LeBlanc
DDra.n aG rCehgr iCsltairaknes on NCaavthiedr iNniek oMui ller APcENcSo mplishments Lp.e 4328
Mark Coleman Richard Siemens
Cathie Crooks Darcy Tkachuk
Taylor Decarie Noel Zinger Photographics Ltd. STUDENTS
Dennis Denis
Natasha Dubé Moot Court 2007/2008 p. 48
WReenedy iFraysa nt Convocati°o n 2008 p. 49
Rae's Germain Orientation Day 2008 p.50
pta
Dr. Joanna Harrington Student Profiles p- 54
Ronald G. Hopp
Cheryl Hunter Loewen
David Isenegger EVENTS
Janine Isenegger
Frank Jones Speakers p- 56
Fred Laux
Courtney LeBlane
Lora Lee ALUMNI & FRIENDS
Jodeen Litwin
Homecoming 2008
Diana Lowe, QC
Shannon Mather Class Reunions va1 NO ow
Les McCrimmon Canada Post Publications
David A. McGillivray Agreement No. 40063511 Program Committee Update
The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin &O o
Branching Out
Catherine Miller Ete Reenter ere
Allison Murray : ; .
NING
Christine Murray Faculty of Law SLOSS MEGS PEON az
Navid Nikou 176 Law Centre Class Notes svu7u7 .d
Grace Parotta-King University of Alberta
Dr. Lynn Penrod Edmonton, AB
David Perey, QC T6G 2H5 GIFTS REPORT p- 79
Sandra Petersson
The Hon. Ellen I. Picard ’
The Hon. June Ross PRINTING
McCallum Printing Group Inc.
The Hon. Anne Russell
Leita Siever
Deanna Steblyk DESIGN & LAYOUTJ T
The Hon. Allan Wachowich Scope Communications
Christa White Courtney LeBlanc ON THE COVER
Andrea Whyte Creative Services, U of A
With generous support from the Alumni and Friends of the Faculty
of Law Association, the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law is
pleased to publish two issues of Without Prejudice each year.
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ALUMNI & FRIENDS
OF THE FACULTY OF LAW ASSOCIATION
Without Prejudice, the University of Alberta Faculty of Law alumni magazine,
is published biannually. The views and opinions expressed in the magazine are
those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the University,
the Faculty or the Alumni and Friends of the Faculty of Law Association. All A collection of Faculty of Law student yearbooks
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DEAN’S MESSAGE
The last few months have been a time of exciting changes in the law school
and its program.
The most visible changes have occurred in the fabric of the Law Centre
itself. The newly-renovated Fraser Milner Casgrain Hall (formerly Room
201) was ready for students at the beginning of the school year. One of my
colleagues mentioned that the students gave an audible “WOW!” as they
entered his first class. The classroom incorporates the latest in technology,
the original wood highlights in the room have been refinished for the first
time in 35 years and the colour of the wood is now reflected in the desk
tops.
We have recently occupied the new MacInnis Centre, which provides
staff and students with beautiful classrooms, offices and study space. It
DAVID R. PERCY, QC has also enabled us to move all student services from their previously
remote location on the fourth floor to walk-in space immediately opposite
Dean
the student lounge.
Wilbur Fee Bowker Professor of Law
The vast improvements to our facilities could not have happened
without the generous support of our alumni. This process will continue in
the future, as we transform Room 207 into Bennett Jones Hall and Room
101 into Miller Thomson Hall. Law Campaign 2008 has enabled us to make
great progress in much needed renovations to the law school after 35 years
of wear and tear.
The law school has also had to respond to the challenges of maintaining
accessibility for students in the face of increased fees and offering an
academic experience that matches those of our national competitors. In
both of these areas, now and in the future, the support of our alumni and
friends is essential. The dividends of this support are beginning to make a
real difference to legal education at the University of Alberta.
Law Campaign 2008 has already resulted in the establishment of 35
new scholarships and bursaries, with a total endowment of over $3 million.
Our teaching has been enriched by the creation of a number of chairs
and professorships. In the most recent announcement, TransCanada
Corporation has agreed to endow a Chair in Administrative and Regulatory
Law, recognizing the vital importance of these subjects in the future of
Alberta and Canada.
The function of the modern law school is also to prepare our students
for arapidly changing world. I was delighted to participate with Dean David
Getches of the University of Colorado Law School in the announcement
of the Alberta/Colorado Dual Degree Program in Edmonton and Boulder.
This program will enable students from both schools to obtain both an
Alberta law degree and a Colorado law degree in a four-year period. It is
the first of its kind in Western Canada and offers an exciting opportunity
to our students in a time of increasing internationalism.
Earlier this year, I announced that I would be stepping down from the
deanship on June 30, 2009, after spending seven years in an exciting and
challenging position. I am already looking forward to haranguing the first
year class in Contracts and I plan to maintain a vigorous presence in the
law school that means so much to me.
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
I am very fortunate that my second year as president of the Alumni and
Friends of the Faculty of Law Association coincides with the milestone of the
tenth year of the Association’s existence, which was formally recognized at
our Annual General Meeting held on September 20, 2008, at the Law Centre.
From humble beginnings under our first president, Ray Hansen, QC (LLB ’81),
IC ASS
—S aiS e in 1998, the Association has grown increasingly active with law students, our
alumni and in the legal community.
Catherine Miller, the Director of Development and Alumni Relations, with
the able assistance of Courtney LeBlanc as Communications / Alumni Relations
Associate, are the keystones that hold the Association together in the face of the
necessary changes in the executive membership and evolution of the Association.
I am very pleased to relate that under the very capable guidance of
ee ZZ our Fundraising Committee chair, William (Bill) Ostapek (LLB ’83), and his
DENNIS DENIS (Class of 1983) dedicated team, the 2008 Spring Reception set a new standard of interest,
attendance and financial return. Our success in this endeavour has allowed the
President
Association to provide more student bursaries, as well as provide seed money
Alumni & Friends of the Faculty
for future initiatives. Of equal importance, the Spring Reception is becoming
of Law Association
a priority event for the Edmonton legal community. A special thank you is
particularly owed to the entire reception committee, the sponsors, silent auction
donors and attendees for supporting our premier annual event.
In this, my last year as president, your Association will continue to
develop opportunities to socialize with students, alumni and friends in both
formal and informal gatherings. Our website will continue to be updated
regularly with Association news. In addition, the Faculty of Law’s new alumni
e-newsletter, WP Update, which launched in October 2008, will provide further
communication about our events schedule.
Our Association is one of the most active U of A alumni associations,
for which we can thank our dedicated volunteers. We currently have branches
in Calgary, Halifax, Lethbridge, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Toronto,
Ottawa / Montreal, Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia, with contacts in New
Zealand, Singapore and China.
The growth and development of any association doesn’t just
happen, we stand on the shoulders of the hardworking members who laid
the foundation and we build from there. I am grateful to the entire current
executive, committee members and student volunteers for their dedication
and commitment to our goals of coordinating social events, assisting students
with bursaries, articling students with advice and direction, and our members
with easy tools to keep in touch with each other and their Association.
Thank you all for your continued interest in the Association’s affairs
and please continue to visit our website at www.law.ualberta.ca/Alumni
--Friends and Development/Alumni--Friends. I hope to see you at the 2009
Spring Reception on June 4 at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton.
EDITORS’ NOTES
In her centenary address delivered on January 28, 2008, at Convocation Hall,
University of Alberta President Indira Samarasekera proclaimed that “we are
entitled—yes, entitled—to toot our horns a bit and demand a nod from the
world for the extraordinary efforts and energies that were invested by those
who went before us into producing the insights and competencies that the
talented people of this institution share with the world today.”
As the Faculty of Law prepares to begin a new chapter in its history when
it welcomes a new dean in July 2009, and also looks forward to celebrating
COURTNEY LeBLANC CATHERINE MILLER (Class of 1977) its own centenary in 2012, it heeds President Samarasekera’s suggestion to
B.Sc., B.Comm. (Hons) BSCN, LLB, LLM reflect on “the values, the victories, the challenges, and the community that
Conant tions Sa AUR P TU! brought us to where we are today.” This issue of Without Prejudice takes a
Relatieones Associate nand eAlumsni Relations look back at the Faculty’s development and celebrates the level of excellence
fe that its alumni, students and academics have achieved.
With best wishes,
The Editors
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time, law students undertook part-time studies as a complement to the practical experience they gained articling
full-time with a lawyer - their official legal training. The young Faculty graduated its first class — a total of eight
students - in 1915. .
As the profession became more regulated, including the development of new Bar admission standards, so too
did the Faculty’s program. Changing ideologies encouraged a greater focus on formal legal education in‘place of
the varied levels of instruction students were previously receiving from articling experiences. In 1921, ithe Fac-
ulty of Law was reestablished with a newly redesigned curriculum for its bachelor of laws (LLB). degree. The new
three-year academic program required full-time study with mandatory attendance at lectures. -In order to Satisfy”
Bar admission requirements, students completed a one-year Ned period following the OMPIS an of their LLB v
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degree.
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#.M. Tory, the growing Faculty received classroom and library space in the Arts Building’on the U of A cainpus.
in 1924, the first class to complete the Faculty’s new LLB program graduated. John AlexanderP e ‘a Rhaes
“choaiar and the Faculty’s first full-time teacher, also syemile: the Faculty’ s-first dean in Vides Gu a
by Catherine Miller
taught practice and procedure. Cairns the law firm of Howard Mackie (now
was witty and a limerick champion, who part of the international firm of Borden
taught conveyancing. Martland was also Ladner Gervais LLP [BLG]) as counsel. He
a popular professor, who won the highly concentrated on oil and gas work until he
regarded Vinerian prize at Oxford, an retired from the firm in 1996.
honour that, as Bredin commented, is not Bredin kept busy outside of his legal
easily obtained. While at school, Bredin practice as well. Along with Doug Hawkes
had to be a serious student, as the aunt who and the Honourable Grant MacEwan, he >
financed him told him the first examination signed the petition for incorporation of the —
he failed, would result in the termination — Calgary Foundation, and the three were
of his financial support. But he did take — later made honourary directors. ei
part in plays, took time off on Sunday. was the president of the Churchill Society
afternoons to go skating and got to know in Calgary for two years and attended —
his classmates. His fellow students included - International Churchill Society meetings in
Robert Barron, the youngest. in. the class England, France and the U.S. Until recently, %
who took qW t hev e Ernest Coté, uncle he continued to meet every Thursday at
Justice Jean C agD on Mclaws, and /“Mewata ‘Armouries for lunch with his fellow —
- George ‘Crawford. Bredin and Cote are “ pilots, navigators and air gunners who
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Calgary. and began ‘articles ae) Bredin wed Nan in Nee 195474
with E,A . Dunbar, KC. He later”t ransferred ee months after meeting her at a party —
nd commenced a farm mettre his to TW, Collinge,
articles © the city in Calgary. Nan ‘grew up in Tisdale,
in thea e ofC ereal.i s mother
solicitor, and received the princely sum. of Saskatchewan. She graduated from
$60 per month as salary. The going wage — the University of Alberta with |a home
for an articling: student in private practice economics degree in 1947. Her father was 5
at the time was. $25 a “month. He remained the administrator at the Mewburn Veterans’. .
working with the City of Calgary until he Hospital in Edmonton and later was chief .
Law was part of Bredin’s cee
joined the R. A. 1942. He joined, of surgery at the Col. Belcher Veterans BU,
ory. His paternal grandfather, Col.
initially as an aircraftman, 2nd class, and Hospital in Calgary. They have two. aduI t
3redin, had been a magistrate in Ontario.
was trained as- a navigator. ‘He arrived children, a daughter, Maryann, who works _
4e had attended Victoria College, now.
in England in April. 1944 and began at Mount Royal College in Calgary, and
c apart of the University of Toronto, in
operations in February 19 45, based firstly son James, whoi s a film editor in Toronto. |
g, Ontario. In the early ‘30s
out of Brussels, Belgium, and later out of
/ isa problem, so Preuin poles .
a base near Osnabriick, Germany. He got
into operations the last three months of
the war. Bredin completed 38 operational
missions with the R.C.A.F.’s Second Tactical
Air Force. He advanced |t o the rank of
flying officer. When he ‘returned home in
1945, he re- joined the city sso licitor’s office
1e law Faculty was small in those
as the assistant, city solicitor. In Dea he
with Dean Weir and Malcolm
yre as the only full-time professors.
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John Corbett followed his father William and Ronald Martland as sessionals, who to Louis D. Hyndman Senior at Field
into the legal profession. William, who gave a lot of their valuable time to the Hyndman. He then joined his father
graduated from Dalhousie University students. Though business was slow in William in practice after his call to the
in 1904 with a bachelor of arts degree, the 1930s, it was still a sacrifice for the Bar. His father was a mentor to John. It
answered an ad for a school principal in sessionals to give their time to teach. was a different era of practice - without
Fort Saskatchewan and was offered the John was president of the Law Students’ time keeping, and when a mortgage was
job. He accepted and articled to W. A. Association. He remembers that there discharged for $15.
D. Lees in his spare time. William was were a number of students from B.C. John’s future wife Nora was vice
admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1910 and in the class, as they did not have a law president of the Students’ Union while at
when Lees was appointed to the District Faculty then. John lived only a block the University of Alberta and the two met
Court of Northern Alberta, William away from the law school, and so he at a Sadie Hawkins dance. She worked as
took over the practice and together with waited until he heard the bell ring before a librarian in Winnipeg during the war,
Douglas Harper, formed a partnership in heading to class. Usually he was the last but travelled to Quebec City, where she
Fort Saskatchewan called Corbett and to arrive. and John were married upon his return to
Harper. In 1921, the firm moved to the John joined the navy in 1942 and Canada from his overseas posting. It was
Tegler Building in Edmonton. attended officers’ training school in supposed to be a nine-day break, but was
John graduated from the Faculty Halifax. In October of that year, he joined cut down to three. After the wedding,
of Law in 1942 and he recalls that Dean HMCS Moose Jaw, one of the seventeen Nora returned to Edmonton. John and
Weir had died just prior to that and just Canadian corvettes taking part in the Nora had four children: Mary, Norma,
after students finished their final exams. Allied offensive in North Africa. Ellen and Bill. Nora was an artist and a
In recollecting his student days, John’sship wasstationed in Gibraltar. potter. She passed away in March 2008.
John remembers Dean Weir and Dr. Two of the seventeen ships were lost. The majority of John’s practice was
MacIntyre as the only permanent In the spring of 1943, the Moose Jaw wills and estate work. One of his most
faculty and L.Y. Cairns, George Steer was conveying ships that travelled from memorable files being one where he was
Quebec City, down the St. Lawrence to an executor of an estate for 50 years. He
Goose Bay, Labrador. also taught the Bar admission and Legal
In 1944, after a month’s leave Education Society of Alberta (LESA)
in Scotland, John joined a frigate, the wills course. He says that the addition of
HMCS Annan, as an anti submarine continuing legal education was a big step
officer and was mentioned in dispatches forward and the biggest change since his
for his part in the successful battle with graduation. John was the president of the
a German submarine. The war began to Edmonton Bar Association in 1961. He
wind down and John arrived home in has been a member of the Legal Forum
the summer of 1945. discussion group for 51 years. John
On his return home, John articled practised law continuously from 1945 to —
the early 1990s, when he had a stroke.
John has always enjoyed t
outdoors and was a very avid spo:
He enjoyed downhill skiing a1
with his fath er. He had
gro of friend
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University of Alberta Faculty of Law)
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: Caner graduated from high to help her gain ee ee
he l a few months after the end of a testament to Jack’s —
NI and followed his dream of a career negotiation ale 8
aw to the University of Alberta. _ Despite having missed ae
_“T wanted to be a lawyer,” he says. ie first week of lectures,
) other occupation entered my mind.” Darlene confidently. began —::
_ He began the joint BA/LLB program her studies at the Facultyi in
ie fall 1945, one of 36 students - 30 the fall of 1956, quickly proving
vho 1 were returning war veterans. herself with her classmates. As the only
ae and Darlene have both kept
ughout his two years of arts training - female student in her first year of law
busy during their respective retirements.
hree years of law school, a young school she was often excluded from
Jack and his late wife, who passed away
jack held great admiration for the men her male classmates’ social gatherings, in 2007, traveled to Europe almost every
his ccrlasahess s owe ho had served their country but she did not harbour any feelings” _ year after he retired. He has also pursued
in the war, many of whom also had the — of resentment, |c alling: her classmates _ other interests, including developing his
added responsibility of raising families” “a good -b unch.” A. ‘second female
computer skills. Darlene has been an
oe pene on full-time studies. The law student, Trene Bonetti, ejoined active member and a big supporter of
the program in her second year and
_ the Cosmopolitan Music Society for 35
ce graduated wit h Darlene’s class. Trene |_ years. She plays the b-flat clarinet and
- and Darlene became great friends ee
_ bass clarinet int wo of the organization’s
during he Page ide His _ keep in touch to this day. oe ce
- community bands, and traveled to
great academic experience also. included — Although: Darlene had selected a
Austria in the summer of 2008 to
ing valtu abbll e knowledge from BE ee profession that very few ‘women were
2 perform in the MID EUROPE Festival.
; oe professors. _ part of, she was determi t to let her —
Although many of them live in
Once he graduated i in 1950, ee
sex be an obstacle to her success, gaining es cities, Jack spends as much
ce began his articles with Milner Steer — the popes ofh era e ne a .
time as possible with his five children, 13
ee To considered one of oo S -
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
When itc ame fee for Darene. to- Two of his four daughters are lawyers
ve ventured au onh ie own, ee a “rnc in 1959, there was no question -c and one of them, Janice Chapman,
A practice under the nameJ .E Chapman. as to whom she would learn the ropes"
graduated from the U of A Faculty of
. _ Although — Jack’s. opening of a from: big brother Jack, already a mentor.
Law in 1987. Darlene, who never married
- storefront | law office was a relatively Hees “Tt was a very good article,” she —
and does not have children, is very close
innovative concept, - he was, in part, . sayso f her first year working with Jack. with her nieces and nephew.
a continuing a family tradition. You see, ‘In 1962, Darlene’s adventurous —
Even though they are both retired,
ack s: grandfather, a harness maker, a spirit took her to California, where she this brother- sister duo maintain a legal
oe opened a store on Edmonton’s trendy —_ spent the next three. years. While living | perspective on the world today. Every
_ Whyte Avenue in the early 1900s. His. in the United States, she. further honed —T uesday they meet for breakfast and
father, also a harness maker, later took. her legal skills working for a ee as spend a few hours discussing news and
over the store and saw it through the well as witha mortgage company. — . _ world affairs, often sparking a friendly
transition to work clothing retailerasthe = Having had many fun experiences debate between the two.
demand for horse-related merchandise _ in California, Darlene returned — to _ “We're very fortunate, we've always
dwindled. Jack then followed suit by Edmonton in 1965 and resumed — got one Darlene says proudly.
using part of the store’s space for his practice with Jack. In addition to being .
law office (his father had generously siblings and close friends, they were
given him a third of his store). Within a now colleagues and partners, as_ the a
few years, Jack had developed a thriving firm became known as Chapman and —
practice and built a new law office next Chapman. Their strong sense of family
door. His only sibling, younger sister extended to the firm, as they developed 4
Darlene, would soon join him. ak close relationships w— ith their staff,
After switching out of an education i employing only two secretaries during
program, Darlene completed her BA the firm’s moret th ant hree decades in
degree at the U of A in 1956 with no firm — existence. :
career path in mind. By the time she — _ After practis s together for 27
decided that she would like to attend law years,t he Chapman siblings closed their
school, an ew school year had just begun firm in 1986 when Jack retired. Darlene
and the Faculty was no longer accepting — then joined Matheson and Matheson,
application Her father, as well as her the firm started heir mutual friend, Jack’s 1950 graduation Darlene's 1959 graduation
big brother Jack, who is seven years her the Hon. Doug!M atheson (Class of 1951), photo (courtesy of the photo (courtesy of the
University of Alberta University of Alberta
nior, ple her case to the university’s who had| b y ther oved to the Bench. Faculty of Law) Faculty of Law)
administr tion | were cs able She retired sn
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The Wachowich family lived in a small Ed’s_ class initally had
hamlet, Opal, Alberta, some fifty miles 40 students, but half failed
north of Edmonton. They came there the first year. The Wachowich
when two brothers, Peter and Philip family lived on 116! Street
Wachowich, moved from the family and 101St Avenue (Jasper Avenue). The articles and remained, assisting Kosowan
homestead in Skaro to open a general brothers walked to university down with insurance work. The firm later
store, hardware store, farm implement 100th Avenue and often Dr. Alex Smith added Peter Chomicki, Julian Koziak,
dealership, oil agency and lumber yard. drove past them and offered them a Methodius Koziak, Nadia Koziak, Ray
Philip and his wife Nancy had eight ride to school. The conversation was Baril, Horst Wolff, Herb Elgert and
children, six girls and two boys - Edward usually about hunting as they tried to Henry Budninsky.
and Allan. Ed was born in 1929 and avoid talking about law. Smith loved Ed left practice in 1986 to join
Allan in 1935. It was a good life in Opal. to go duck hunting and the Wachowich the Provincial Court Bench. He was
Their father was a successful merchant brothers offered him a great duck appointed chief judge in 1989. Allan
and sponsored the Opal baseball team. hunting spot on their cousin's acreage. was appointed to the District Court of
They had a Buick and a truck during the Ed recalls fishing for whitefish with Northern Alberta in 1974 and later to
Depression. When the family moved to nets in the winter and bringing Smith the Court of Queen’s Bench.
Edmonton in 1944, three of the sisters some fish. In terms of career highlights,
were already living there. Ed began Allan was planning on _ taking Ed points to his extensive leadership
grade eleven at St. Joseph High School physical education in university as he role in the volunteer community,
and Allan began grade four. played baseball and basketball, but Ed which began at university when he ©
When Allan arrived in Edmonton, convinced him to take pre-law instead. was president of his fraternity, on
his first friend was Barry Vogel. Allan Allan’s class began with 31 students and the University Athletic Board, and
had the 117th Street paper route. He only 21 graduated. He knew the courses later Alumni Council President, and
recalls being called out of class when would be tough so he worked hard. member of the Senate and Board of
World War II ended to deliver a special He related very well to Dean Bowker. Governors. In the general community,
edition. He had a number of other jobs Bowker gave Allan his collection of Ed was heavily involved in the Knights
- working in a drug store, at a soda baseball books as he knew what a fan of Columbus, as Grand Knight and
fountain and washing dishes. In 1946, he he was. For their 25th anniversary, the a chairman of all the Edmonton
earned enough to buy himself a bicycle Class of 1958 sent Wilbur and Marjorie councils. He was also involved in
— an item not available during the war. to Seattle to see a weekend series of Knights of Columbus hockey - every
Allan attended St. John’s, Grandin and baseball games. Friday night was hockey night, with
St. Joseph schools in Edmonton. His After Ed was appointed chief over 1,500 children in hockey every
high school job was at Healy Motors. judge of the Provincial Court in 1989, season. He was chairman of the bingo
The Healy and Wachowich families he worked with Wilbur Bowker, the committee for 24 years, a period
remain friends to this day. chair of the Judicial Council. Prior to when over $17 million was raised
Ed had a job at Kenn’s garage from the public announcement about Allan’s for charities. He was on the building
5 to 7 pm each day, where his boss was appointment as associate chief justice, committee for St. Matthews Church
George Bishop (father of Don Bishop). he called Marjorie to ask her to share the and chaired the building committee
On weekends, he drove the tow truck news with Wilbur as he did not want at St. Andrews Centre. Ed has been
and saved his money so that he was able the dean to learn the news from the associated with the Alberta Catholic
to buy a car after the war. At 17, he sold newspapers. Health Corporation for 30 years,
the car to finance his university studies. Ed articled to Alex Dubensky. His which is currently winding up. Ed
Ed initially chose to _ study students did all his work and it was a was also involved in business, taking —
engineering because of a strong math big responsibility. About the time he a leading role in the construction of
teacher at St. Joseph, but his cousin was looking to leave Dubensky, Ed had Century Place and Chancery Hall. In |
Harvey Bodner was in Law and Ed was a case against Con Kosowan. Following addition, he organized syndicates who _
impressed by what he was studying. the case, Kosowan asked Ed for coffee bought and developed land around
Ed approached the dean of Engineering at the YMCA and invited Ed to join him Edmonton. oe : ae
and told him he wanted to switch to in 1955. Ed handled the police court, When asked about his relationshif
Law. The dean recommended Ed take criminal law, company law, wills and with Allan while they practise
an aptitude test, which he did, and then estates, hotel and other commercial together, Ed said they never had |
transactions. Allan joined the firm for harsh word for each other. There was
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