Collection search - Binnie, Ian - Interview

CANADA. SUPREME COURT OF CANADA / COUR SUPREME DU CANADA : Oral History Program

2015-0049

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2012-03-26

Constance Backhouse (interviewer)

interviewer, Constance Backhouse

Supreme Court of Canada

First day in a series of six interviews of the honourable Ian Binnie by Constance Backhouse in Ottawa for the Supreme Court of Canada Oral History Project. He describes his family, childhood and legal education in great detail. Among other subjects, he speaks about his grandparents; his parents; his early schooling; boarding schools; admired teachers; learning French; his university education at McGill; his fields of interest; the student newspaper and other activities; recollections of university friends; the diversity at McGill; the abrupt death of his mother; his law education at Cambridge; the Cambridge Union Society and his interest in public speaking; meeting Susan, his wife; their four children; family life; the English Bar; his education at University of Toronto law school; and his classmates. <252mn 21s>

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