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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1945 - Small Class Sizes
Enrolment in the Law School dips to 450 students. Sidney Smith, a former law school lecturer and friend of Caesar Wright, returns to Ontario as the President of the University of Toronto. He tells a University of Toronto committee on legal education that he intends for “…the law school at Osgoode Hall should be absorbed.” The first-year law class 1944.
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Kew Dock Yip ’45 (1906-2001)
Kew Dock Yip was Canada’s first Chinese Canadian lawyer. Born in 1906, he was the 17th of 23 children of Vancouver businessman Yip Sang. After graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1945, Dock Yip, as he was known, worked with Jewish civil rights lawyer Irving Himel and activists from across Canada to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act. Dock Yip was a leader within Toronto’s Chinese Canadian community, working out of his office in Chinatown for 47 years until his retirement in 1992. In 1998, he was awarded the Law Society Medal from the Law Society of Upper Canada.
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1943 - Come On, Canada!
At home, Osgoode students continue to support their classmates despite their reduced numbers. The Obiter Dicta publishes lists of individuals serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, messages of encouragement from Dean Falconbridge, tongue-in-cheek editorials about ‘What to Do in an Air Raid,’ and ads for Victory Bonds.
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1943 - Playing Catch-Up
Similar to the First World War, Osgoode Hall formed its own contingent of the Canadian Officer’s Training Corps. Here they are at Niagara Camp, 1940. The Law School agrees that unlike what was offered to returning World War I veterans, there will be no short-cut summer courses for returning students. Instead, plans are laid for refresher courses to help lawyers return to practice.
