Foreword

• Author: C. Ian Kyer
• Pages: 9-10

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FOREWORD

Tknown as Fasken Martineau can trace its roots back

acenturyandahalftotheBeayChadwickpartnershipestablishedin

AsitstitlesuggeststhishistoryoftheFaskenrmisinpartahistoryof

thecloseknitfamiliesthatdominateditsearlydecadesBeayChadwick

BlackstockandofcourseFaskenLawpracticeinthelaternineteenthand

earlytwentiethcenturieswasfrequentlycharacterisedbysuchfamilycon

nections, and by connections between legal and business families, in this

case by connections to the Gooderhams’ and Worts’ extended families.

This book also takes us through crucial stages in the development of not

justFaskenMartineaubutmanyotherCanadianlawrmsthealliances

with various businesses; the growth of two or three man partnerships into

considerablylargerrmsthelinksbetweenleadinglawrmsandpolitics

Along the way, we see how law practice changed, how remuneration was

divided up, and how strong leaders stamped their individual personalities

ontot he collective identity of the rm This bo oki s a majorcontr ibution

to our understanding of the changes in Canadian law practice through the

twentie th century.

The purpose of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is

to encourage research and writing around the history of Canadian law.

TheSocietywhichwasincorporatedinandisregisteredasacharity

wasfoundedattheinitiativeoftheHonourableRRoyMcMurtryformerly

aorney general for Ontario and chief justice of the province  and

ocialsoftheLawSocietyofUpperCanadaTheSocietyseekstostimulate

the study of legal history in Canada by supporting researchers, collecting