- Doug Christie
Douglas (Doug) Hewson Christie, Jr. (born April 1946) is a Canadian lawyer and political activist based in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the founder and general counsel of the far-right Canadian Free Speech League and is best known for defending individuals accused of Nazi war crimes or racist, anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi activity. He is also the founder and leader of the Western Canada Concept, a separatist party of British Columbia and The Western Block Party, … - Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin, PC, LL.D, M.A., LL.B, BA (born September 7, 1943) is the Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position. - Joel Bakan
Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and writer. Born in Lansing, Michigan and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan State University. In 1971, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983) and Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984). - David Anderson
David Anderson, PC, LL.B (born August 16, 1937 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a former Canadian politician. Anderson was the Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Victoria from 1993 until 2005, and is a former member of Cabinet. He was also the member from Esquimalt—Saanich from 1968 to 1972. Anderson was an Olympic silver medalist in rowing, and a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force (1955-1958). - Mike Harcourt
Michael Franklin Harcourt (born Edmonton, January 6, 1943) served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996, and before that as mayor of BC's major city, Vancouver from 1980 to 1986. Harcourt was Student Council president at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School and studied at the University of British Columbia where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. Harcourt served as a Vancouver Alderman from 1973 to 1980, … - Wally Oppal
Wallace Oppal, Q.C. is a Canadian lawyer, former judge and provincial politician from British Columbia. Oppal is the Attorney General of British Columbia and the Minister responsible for Multiculturalism and is the British Columbia Liberal Party's MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview. Born in the Fraserview precinct of south Vancouver, Oppal is a graduate of the University of British Columbia law school and operated his own law practice before going to the Bench. - Dugald Christie
Dugald Christie (1941 - July 31, 2006) was a Canadian lawyer and political activist. He was based out of the city of Vancouver. He was the grandson of Dr Dugald Christie (Christie of Mukden) - a Scotish Presbyterian missionary doctor who founded the Mukden Medical College in Shenyang, China. Christie began his political activities in 1991 when he began to offer free legal service to low-income people in Vancouver. - Henry Angus
Henry Forbes Angus (April 19, 1891 - September 17, 1991) was a Canadian lawyer and academic. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University in 1914. He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. He fought in India during World War I. After the war, he received a Master of Arts from Oxford University. - Henry Pering Pellew Crease
Henry Pering Pellew Crease (August 20, 1823 - November 27, 1905) was a British lawyer, judge, and politician, influential in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. He was the first Attorney General of the united British Columbia, and sat on the Supreme Court of that province for 26 years. - Lesra Martin
Lesra Martin is a Canadian lawyer and motivational speaker. He is known for helping to bring about the release of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. - Davie Fulton
Edmund Davie Fulton, PC, OC, LL.B, LL.D, QC (March 10,1916- May 22,2000) was a Canadian politician and judge. Popularly known as E. Davie Fulton, he first won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1945 general election. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia. Fulton ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada at the 1956 leadership convention, placing third behind John Diefenbaker. - Connie Fogal
Constance (Connie) Fogal (born 1940) is the leader of the Canadian Action Party. A lawyer and former teacher, Fogal lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where her late husband Harry Rankin was a long time progressive city councillor. She is an anti-globalization activist and was an opponent of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the North American Free Trade Agreement. She has also been active with the "Canadian Liberty Committee". - Paul A. Winn
Paul A. Winn is a Canadian human rights activist, and lawyer. He is currently a director and interim Chief of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a Canadian crown corporation with a goal of building a national framework for the fight against racism in Canadian society. Mr Winn is also past president of the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia. In the 1980s, Mr. - Angelo Branca
Angelo Ernest Branca (21 March 1903 - 3 October 1984) was a judge in British Columbia's Supreme Court and Court of Appeal from 1963 until 1978, a prominent Italian-Canadian leader, especially of the Vancouver Italian community, and a Canadian amateur middleweight boxing champion. - Robert Bonner
The Hon. Robert Bonner, LL.B. (September 10, 1920 - August 12, 2005) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and corporate executive. He pursued his career working in the British Columbia government and in B.C.-based companies. Bonner was born and raised in Vancouver, and served with the Seaforth Highlanders in Italy in the Second World War. Upon his return to Canada, Bonner took a law degree from the University of British Columbia in 1948, and joined a practice in Vancouver. - Howard Charles Green
Howard Charles Green, PC (November 5 1895 - June 26 1989) was a Canadian politician and parliamentarian. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 federal election as a Conservative from Vancouver, British Columbia and served as an Member of Parliament (MP) for twenty eight years. Between his first election in 1935 and the 1949 federal election he was MP for Vancouver South. - Svend Robinson
Svend Robinson (born March 4, 1952) is a Canadian politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and a prominent activist for gay rights. He was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 until 2004, when he resigned after confessing to committing a theft. He unsuccessfully sought to return to the House in the 2006 federal election. - Harry Rankin
Harry Rankin (May 8, 1920 - February 26, 2002) was a Vancouver lawyer and socialist alderman on city council. Rankin was born in Vancouver to a secular Jewish family which had immigrated from the Ukraine. His father was a factory worker and his mother was a working class woman who had grown up in Glasgow's Jewish community. Rankin dropped out of school at the age of 14 to work in a bakery. - Tim Louis
Tim Louis (born August 13, 1958) is a former Vancouver city councillor and lawyer. He was first elected in 1999 as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors. Louis attended Langara College and the University of British Columbia where he graduated from law school. He articled with lawyer and then-city councillor Harry Rankin in 1984. Prior to his time on council, Louis was a member of the Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation from 1990 to 1993. - John Allen Fraser
John Allen Fraser, PC, OC, OBC, CD, QC, LL.B (born December 15, 1931) is a retired Canadian parliamentarian and former Speaker of the House of Commons. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Fraser first won a seat in Parliament in the 1972 general election as a Progressive Conservative from Vancouver. He stood as a candidate at the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership convention to replace Robert Stanfield, but did poorly. He was re-elected in 1974, 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1988. - Tom Campbell
Thomas J. Campbell, Q.C. (born October 5, 1927) is a retired Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1967 through 1972. Campbell was born in Vancouver, where he became a lawyer. In 1962, he joined Vancouver City Council as an alderman, representing the Non-Partisan Association (NPA), a conservative civic party. Running as an independent, Campbell beat out Bill Rathie in the 1966 election, ending the NPA's long, … - Janice Switlo
Janice Georgina Alice Eleanor Switlo (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and author. She works on behalf of Indigenous peoples within Canada and internationally. She provides her clients with strategic advice on political, policy, legal and economic issues and objectives. Prior to setting up her own practice, she worked as in-house legal counsel for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development of Canada. - Chartres Brew
Chartres Brew (31 December 1815 - 31 May 1870) was a Gold commissioner, Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of British Columbia, later a province of Canada. Born in Corofin, Ireland, Brew served in the Royal Irish Constabulary where he ascended to the position of inspector. In 1858 he was recommended for the office of Chief Inspector of Police for the new Colony of British Columbia to maintain law and order in the goldfields. - David Varty
David Lawrence Varty (born 1948) is a lawyer and author in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Varty is author of the book, "Who Gets Ungava?", analyzing the legal and constitutional issues (particularly the potential partition of the northern "Ungava" region of Quebec), relating to the potential secession of the province of Quebec from Canada. - Douglas Jung
Douglas Jung, CM, OBC, CD (鄭天華, pinyin: Zhèng Tiānhuá) (February 24, 1924 – January 4, 2002) was the first Chinese Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) in the Canadian House of Commons. - William McIntyre
William Rogers McIntyre CC (born March 15, 1918) is a retired Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Lachine, Quebec, the son of Charles Sidney McIntyre and Pauline May Sifton, he moved with his family to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan when he was young. In 1939, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan. After serving during World War II, he received his Bachelor of Laws in 1946 from University of Saskatchewan. - David G. A. McLean
David George Alexander McLean (born 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and the Chairman of the Board of the Canadian National Railway Company. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1962 from the University of Alberta. In 1972, he founded his own real estate investment firm, The McLean Group and is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. - Ian Alistair MacKenzie
Ian Alistair Mackenzie, P.C. (July 27 1890 - September 2 1949) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Born in Assynt, Scotland, Mackenzie entered politics by winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (BC) in the 1920 BC election. In 1930, he was appointed to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's pre-election Cabinet as Minister of Immigration and Colonization and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. - Barry Penner
Barry Penner is British Columbia's Minister of Environment and Minister responsible for Water Stewardship and Sustainable Communities. He is also British Columbia Liberal MLA for Chilliwack-Kent and the government's Deputy House Leader. Born in Kitimat, Penner was first elected an MLA in 1996 and has been re-elected in 2001 and 2005 with some of the highest margins of victory in the province. He has also served as President of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER). - Sherwood Lett
Sherwood Lett, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., K.C., B.A., LL.D., (1 August 1895 - 2 July 1964) was a Canadian soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and jurist. - John Ince
John Ince (May 30 1952-) is a lawyer, politician, an erotic arts enthusiast and the controversial author of a book called "The Politics of Lust". He founded The Erosha School of Erotic Massage and The Art of Loving, a sexuality center in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also the leader of a political party, the Sex Party (British Columbia). His professional interest in sex began in the early 1980s when as a lawyer in Vancouver, Canada he began representing artists, … - John Brewin
John Brewin was the Member of Parliament for Victoria (B.C.) from 1988 to 1993. He was a member of the New Democratic Party, as was his father Andrew Brewin. He was married to Gretchen Brewin, who served concurrently as mayor of the city of Victoria. He married Patricia Thompson in 1997. Brewin first ran for office in 1984 against veteran PC incumbent Allan McKinnon. He came in second in that election, losing by 4,108 or 8%. McKinnon did not run again in the 1988 election, … - Peter Ritchie
Peter Ritchie is a Canadian lawyer. He is well-known as the defense counsel for accused serial killer Robert Pickton. He is also known for representing Doukhobors who stripped naked in court to defend their religious freedom as well as Gillian Guess, who was charged with obstruction of justice for having an affair with an accused in a criminal trial while serving on the jury. - Ted McWhinney
Edward "Ted" McWhinney, QC, LL.M, SJD, LL.D, JD (Yale) (born May 19 1924) is a Canadian lawyer and academic specializing in constitutional and international law. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2000 for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra. - Frederick John Fulton
Frederick John Fulton, KC (December 8,1862- July 25,1936) was a British-born and educated Canadian lawyer and politician. He practiced law in Kamloops, British Columbia. He was a member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly from 1900 to 1909 serving a series of cabinet roles as President of the Executive Council, Minister of Education, Provincial Secretary, Attorney General and Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works. - Allan McEachern
Allan McEachern (b 1926) is a Canadian lawyer, a retired judge, and the current Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. - George Hungerford
George William Hungerford (born on January 2, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian lawyer and Olympic gold medalist rower. George attended High School at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver where he learned to row, after high school he went on to received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1968 both from the University of British Columbia. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1969. - Leslie Hall Pinder
Leslie Hall Pinder (née Hall is a Canadian lawyer and writer. Born in Elrose, Saskatchewan, she earned a B.A. in English literature in 1968. Hall then worked as a court reporter while pursuing legal studies, obtaining her LL.B. in 1976. Hall's second novel, "On Double Tracks" (1990), was a nominee for the 1990 Governor General's Award for English Fiction. - John Wallace De Beque Farris
John Wallace de Beque Farris (also spelt John Wallace Debeque Farris or John Wallace deBeque Farris) (December 3 1878 - February 25 1970) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in White's Cove, New Brunswick, he was educated at St. Martin's Seminary, received his Bachelor of Arts from Acadia University and received his Bachelor of Law from the University of Pennsylvania. He was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1903. - Ronald Lou-Poy
Ronald Lou-Poy, C.M. is a Canadian lawyer and the current chancellor of the University of Victoria. He received a Bachelor of Commerce in 1957 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1960 from the University of British Columbia. In 1961, he was called to the Bar of British Columbia. He is a senior partner at the Victoria, British Columbia law firm of Crease Harman & Company. On October 30, 2003, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.
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