The images in this collection are collected from several series of historical photos throughout Osgoode Digital Commons.
If you would like to view the images in their original galleries please follow the links below:
Osgoode@125 Historical Photo ExhibitOsgoode Catalysts
Remembrance Day
Graduating Class Composites
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1976 - Who’s That Lady?
Louise Arbour and Mary Jane Mossman become the first women to teach as full-time faculty members of the Law School during the 1976-1977 school year. Osgoode adopts a comprehensive policy on admission for mature students, Aboriginal students, and economically disadvantaged students. The Osgoode Hall Law School Library, 1975.
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Bonnie Tough ’76 (1951-2011)
Bonnie Tough was a pioneering litigator and Law Society bencher who served as a role model to many young female lawyers. After clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada, Tough practised at Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP and then at Hodgson Tough. In 2005 she and Kathryn Podrebarac ‘92 founded Tough and Podrebarac LLP. Tough was an active member of the Osgoode community, serving on the Alumni Board and working as an Adjunct Professor teaching insurance law. She received a number of awards and honours including an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Law Society for her contribution to the profession; a Lexpert Magazine award as one of Canada’s top 25 women lawyers; the Ontario Bar Association’s Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation; and Osgoode’s Alumni Gold Key Award. Known to her friends and colleagues as compassionate, intelligent and full of energy, Tough was dedicated to her best friend and spouse Connie Reeve, whom she married in the midst of her illness after many happy years together.
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1975 - One Planet, One Experiment
The Clinical Education Programme begins with the Intensive Programme in Criminal Law; and the LLB/Master of Environmental Science degree is introduced. This is a poster for the LLB/MES film series, 1970-1979.
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1973 - Doing It For Themselves
It is recommended that women be added to the faculty to provide female students with role models and diminish the excessively masculine atmosphere of the Law School. Judy LaMarsh ‘50 becomes a visiting Professor of Law at Osgoode. This marks the first time a woman has taught at the Law School. When this picture was taken in 1969, there were only thirty-nine female law students in a school of 579. By the end of the decade, they constitute about one-third of the student body.
