| Memoirs and Reflections Contributor(s): McMurtry, Roy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442648309 ISBN-13: 9781442648302 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $53.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (2.45 lbs) 562 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMurtry, Roy: - The Honourable Roy McMurtry, OC, O.Ont., QC, is currently Chancellor of York University and serves as counsel to Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP. |