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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1917 - Doing Their Bit
The benchers vote to return the admission fees of all students killed in action to their families. In total, the Law Society of Upper Canada has invested $70,000 in Canadian Victory Bonds. This Victory Bonds poster was created by F. L. Nicolet in 1918.
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1915 - In Uniform
A motion passed by the Benchers gives enlisted Osgoode students a passing grade for the year in which they were registered, while third-year students are automatically called to the Bar. They also 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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1915 - The Lost
Ninety-seven students are on active service on the Western Front. One hundred and thirteen names are memorialized on a wall in Osgoode Hall’s Great Library. Those who survived often lived with terrible physical and psychological injuries.
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1914 - The Fighting Lawyer
World War I has begun. Lecturer Holford Ardagh and other Toronto lawyers form the Osgoode Hall Rifle Association to train lawyers, clerks, and law students without previous military experience. Most of the Rifle Association’s training takes place at the Toronto Armouries just behind Osgoode Hall or at other military facilities. Here, men practice with bayonets at the Toronto Armouries.
