About the Author

• Author: C. Ian Kyer
• Pages: 271-271

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About the Author

C. Ian Kyer is a distinguished law-

yer, historian, and author. For more

than thirty years he practised law

with Fasken, a prominent Bay Street

f‌irm. Ranked as one of Canada’s top

500 lawyers, he advised private sec-

tor parties as well as various govern-

ments on numerous projects. On his

retirement from Fasken, he became

in-house counsel to RPM Technolo-

gies, now part of Broadridge, a multi-

national provider of services to the

financial industry. But Ian was an

historian before he became a lawyer

(with a PhD in European history), and he never abandoned his histor-

ical interests; he merely refocused those interests on legal and busi-

ness history. He has written histories of legal education, the Fasken

f‌irm, the origins of the Toronto Transit Commission, and the Canada

Deposit Insurance Corporation. He has also written numerous biog-

raphies of lawyers and businesspeople for the Dictionary of Canadian

Biography, the Canadian Encyclopedia, and New Federation Press,

and a historical novel about Salieri’s relationship with Mozart.