Collection search - La Forest, Gerard - Interview

CANADA SUPREME COURT OF CANADA / COURT SUPRÊME DU CANADA: ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM

2009-0009

Sound

2 of 2

2001-08-13

Christine Kates (Interviewer)

interviewer, Christine Kates

Supreme Court of Canada

The first in a series of interviews with Mr. Justice Gerard La Forest, conducted by Christine Kates, legal oral historian, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Justice La Forest discusses topics including: his family history; growing up in the bilingual environment of Grand Falls, New Brunswick; his parents and his twelve siblings; his early education; family religion; learning the English language; memories of the Depression and the war; education at St. Francis Xavier University; and his extracurricular activities. <1h 20mn>

English

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Oral history interviews with Justice Gerard La Forest not available for research or public access during the interviewee's lifetime without the interviewee's permission. Oral history interviews with Peter Cory are open for consultation. Reproduction with written permission of copyright owner. Copyright held by the Supreme Court of Canada.