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Author
Hughes, Sam author.
Title
Steering the Course : A Memoir / Sam Hughes.
Imprint
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Description
1 online resource (340 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Origins
A Toronto Education
Hawk Lake and Oxford
Back to School
Qualifications
Training and Transition
The Intelligence Phase
The Historical Section
The Road to Rome
The Way Back
Return to the Law
Public Necessity and Convenience
The High Court
Ottawa, 1959-1963
Return to Judgment
Hobby-Horses
Ten Years to Go
Out of Court
The Evil That Men Do
A Very Distinct Society
As for Myself
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Origins
A Toronto Education
Hawk Lake and Oxford
Back to School
Qualifications
Training and Transition
The Intelligence Phase
The Historical Section
The Road to Rome
The Way Back
Return to the Law
Public Necessity and Convenience
The High Court
Ottawa, 1959-1963
Return to Judgment
Hobby-Horses
Ten Years to Go
Out of Court
The Evil That Men Do
A Very Distinct Society
As for Myself
Index
Summary
Hughes gives moving details about his life, from his time in England as a child while his father was in action in France during World War I, to time abroad in the army during World War II, to events during his twenty-six-year tenure on the bench. His passion for family and for law shine through his account. Even after retirement, he was still very much involved in the law and was appointed to lead the Royal Commission investigating child abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland. Steering the Course not only documents a life but provides a poignant first-hand account of this century. His recollections of the events and changes that this country has undergone during the last eighty years are a stirring reminder of an important part of our recent past. From the book: "My earliest recollection was of the first daylight air raid on London when my mother and I were living in St John's Wood. I remember the explosions that accompanied the bombing of Selfridge's in Oxford Street and I remember clearly that the taxi from which we were hastily removed had yellow facings on its doors." "On New Year's Day 1944 misery and frustration prevailed. Slit trenches, the natural refuge and even sleeping place for soldiers in combat, were full of water . George Renison and I took a bottle of Scotch whisky to the command vehicle of the First Brigade . The bottle, which went only once around the company, was a reminder of the celebrations of other days and its like had not been seen for weeks."
Language Note
In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Language
English
ISBN
9780773568365
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