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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Appearing in Military Uniform
The Benchers suspend the rule that requires students to wear barristers' robes for the call to the Bar ceremony, allowing them to appear in military uniform.
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Armed Forces Newsletter
Osgoode Hall begins to send an Armed Forces Newsletter to students and lawyers posted abroad. Each issue contained news about promotions, deaths, graduations, comrades in arms, gossip, and news about major legal decisions. This is the inaugural edition.
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Canadian Victory Bonds
The Benchers voted to return the admission fees of all students killed in action to their families. In total, the Law Society of Upper Canada invested $70,000 in Canadian Victory Bonds.
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Captain George Graham Sinclair
Captain George Graham Sinclair, Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C., 35 years old, Class of 1933, Buried at the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-Sur-Mer, France. Son of Lorne M. and Evelyn M. Sinclair, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Dorothy Flavelle Sinclair, of Toronto. Captain Sinclair received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, and graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1933. He was killed in the Dieppe Raid on August 14, 1942. His classmates established the George Graham Sinclair Memorial Prize in his memory, which is awarded annually to the Osgoode Gold Medalist.
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Captain Walter Leslie Lockhart Gordon
Captain Walter Leslie Lockhart Gordon, 2nd Bn., Canadian Infantry, 24 years old, Class of 1914, Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Son of W. H. Lockhart Gordon (barrister) and Emily Gordon Gordon, of 221, George St., Toronto. Graduated Royal Military College in 1911. Admitted as a law student in 1911 at age 20. Called to the bar 18 September 1914. Killed in action at Ypres 23 April 1915.
