Canada, Alberta, William G Morrow, Canadian Biographies, Biographies, Memoirs, autobiographies, Canadian autobiographies, Judges, Indigenous Peoples 

"One of the first Canadians to champion the legal and cultural cause of the North's indigenous peoples, William George Morrow, the senior partner in an eminent Edmonton law firm, seized the opportunity to go to the North in 1960 and act as a volunteer defence counsel for $10 a day. Morrow took on the quest for greater justice on behalf of the northern Natives long before this had become part of the national conscience. In these memoirs, he describes his daily struggles - first as a lawyer, and later as a judge - with the question of how an alien law should be applied to Aboriginal culture." "At the height of his career, Morrow was travelling more than 50,000 kilometres a year over bleak, snow-swept terrain to set up makeshift courtrooms in remote communities. He once had to interview a client in the only room where he could be assured privacy - an outhouse. A zealous reformer and a brilliant legal strategist, he fought and won many difficult legal battles with the government. He succeeded in bringing about sentencing that took into account the shorter life expectancy of northern peoples, the provision of local penitentiaries enabling prisoners to serve sentences in their own communities, greater tolerance of Native and Inuit cultural values in interpretations of the law, and the creation of juries made up of men and women from the community of the accused."--Jacket. 

Content:
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
The Legal Archives Society of Alberta
Editor's acknowledgements
Author's notes
Editor's introduction
Beginnings
the embryo lawyer
the war years
The lawyers
Legal legends
The stand and gravel case
To the foot of the throne
never give up
Royal commissions
north as a lawyer
The witchcraft trial
The judge
First East Arctic circuit
Hay River troubles
North to Yellowknife
The Turner trip
Princes, potentates, and 'Morrow Mountain'
Courtrooms - Circuit style
High flying
The Lear jet test: a near-death experience
It could only happen here
Bill of rights
Custom adoption
The Indian Land claims case, Part one: The Battle of Ottawa
The Indian Land claims case, Part two: The hearing
Contempt of court
Adventure - Northern style
Our Northern heritage
Reflections on the law
Epilogue
Index  

Includes index.