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Bernard Wolf fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1948-1971.

Reference:

R3774-0-0-E, MG31-H20

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102637

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Bernard Wolf fonds
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Date(s):

1948-1971.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence, factum and judgements of the Supreme Court of Canada, newspaper clippings, telegrams and bulletins from Bernard Wolf, a litigant in the case of Noble and Wolf v. Alley [1951] S.C.R. 64, which struck down restrictive racial covenants in property transactions in Canada.

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Wolf, Bernard, 1890-1987

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Wolf, Bernard, 1890-1987 : Bernard Wolf, a London, Ont. businessman, purchased a beachfront property at the Beach O'Pines resort on Lake Huron near Grand Bend, Ont. from Annie Maud Noble in 1948. A covenant in the original deed of sale, dated 1933, declared that property at the Beach O'Pines could not be sold to anyone of Jewish, Hebrew, Semitic, Negro or coloured race or blood. Edward Richmond, solicitor for Bernard Wolf asked Mrs. Noble's solicitors to get a court order declaring the covenant void. Mr. Justice W.F. Schroeder of the Supreme Court of Ontario ruled that the covenant was valid and enforceable.

John Cartwright, before his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada appealed the case to the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where the case was dismissed. In the Supreme Court of Canada, the covenant was struck down, on the grounds that proof of a person's membership in a racial group was too difficult to determine and not on the grounds of public policy.

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General note:

Received in 1983 from Bernard Wolf of London, Ont.

Related material:

See also the Edward Richmond papers MG31-E53, solicitor for Bernard Wolf.
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Newspapers - Sections, columns, etc., [1948-1951, 1961, 1971] Beach O'Pines resort (Grand Bend, Ont.), [1948-1951, 1961, 1971]

Pro se representation, [1948-1951, 1961, 1971] Annie Maud Noble, [1948-1951, 1961, 1971]

Courts - Canada, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971 Noble and Wolf v. Alley, [1951]

Appellate courts - Canada, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971 S.C.R. 64, [1948-1951, 1961, 1971]

Law - Canada - Cases, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971 Canada. Supreme Court, [1948-1951, 1961, 1971]

Race discrimination - Canada, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Race discrimination - Law and legislation - Canada, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Legal documents - Canada, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Legal correspondence, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Bernard Wolf - Correspondence, [1948-1951, 1961, 1971]

Covenants - Canada, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Land titles - Registration and transfer, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Conflict of laws - Transfer, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Conflict of laws - Property, 1948-1951, 1961, 1971

Property Canada
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Private

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MG31-H20
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