Rand, Ivan C. (Ivan Cleveland), 1884-1969 : Ivan Cleveland Rand was born in Moncton, New Brunswick on April 27, 1884. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick in 1909 and graduated from Harvard University in 1912 with a Bachelor of Law. He was called to the Bar in New Brunswick in 1912 then moved West to Medicine Hat, Alberta where he practiced law for eight years as partner of Laidlaw and Blanchard. In 1920, he returned to Moncton for six years to practice law with Senator C.W. Robinson. In 1924,I.C. Rand was created Queen's Counsel and was elected in Gloucester County to hold a Liberal seat in the New Brunswick Legislature in 1925. During the years of 1924 and 1925, he served as Attorney-General of New Brunswick under the Veniot Liberal government.
In 1926 he was appointed Regional Counsel for the Canadian National Railways in Moncton. He was later being transferred to Montreal by the railway as General Commission Counsel in 1933. He was charged with the responsibility of attending to all matters pertaining to litigation and practice before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Exchequer Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission in the United States, and appeared before Parliamentary Committees and Federal Departments on behalf of the Company. I. C. Rand was also in charge of insurance, admiralty and marine matters in the Company, and acted as legal adviser to various enterprises operated by the Railways as a wartime emergency measure.
Ivan Cleveland Rand was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on April 22, 1943. During his tenure as Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Ivan Cleveland Rand wrote 600 judgments and held several positions. Two years after his appointment, he was named arbitrator in the Windsor Ford Motor Canada labour dispute and on this occasion he established a method of guaranteeing Union security with the now well-known "Rand Formula" for union security which was hailed at the time as the panacea for labour-management ills. The "Rand Formula" is defined as a union-security plan which provides for the employer to deduct union dues from the pay of all employees and remitting the amounts to the union. In 1947 he was one of two Canadian delegates from Canada acting as jurist for the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine which helped draw up the majority report of UNSCOP recommending partition of the land and the creation of an independent Jewish State. On April 27, 1959, he retired from the Supreme Court of Canada after 16 years.
Appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario in 1959, he conducted many commissions of inquiry for the Federal Government. On October 6, 1959 he was named Commissioner to the Royal Commission on Coal to investigate Canada's coal industry. They face the problems of the coal mining production, distribution and sales in Canada. On January 19, 1966, Justice Rand was appointed to head a Commission of inquire to investigate Leo A. Landreville and whether in his role as judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario he engaged in any dealings which might constitute misbehaviour and prove him unfit for the proper exercise of his official duties. On August 18, 1966, I. C. Rand was named Commissioner to investigate labour law in Ontario, including the use of court injunctions in labour disputes. He made 56 recommendations for the government action, most of them anti-union in tone. In general, he aimed to insulate the general public, as much as possible from the impact of a strike while preserving the maximum degree of freedom of action between the parties.
At the end of his career, I. C. Rand was involved in training and in legal education mainly in Ontario and in New Brunswick as a Dean of the Faculty of Law, Mount Allison University and as a member of the Board of Education for the City of London. Justice Rand wrote several articles and received honorary degrees from Canadian Universities. He died on January 2, 1969 at the age of 84. For more information on Ivan Cleveland Rand see : Cartwright, J. R. "Ivan Cleveland Rand (1884-1969)". Canadian Bar Review/Revue du Barreau canadien 47 (1969), pp. 155-160 and "Supreme Court of Canada decision-making : the benchmarks of Rand, Kerwin and Martland" by Randall P.H. Balcome, Edward J. McBride and Dawn A. Russell, Toronto : Carswell, 1990, 413 p.
