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Page 4 November 17, 2014 • Law Times www.lawtimesnews.com Honorary call to the bar A special Remembrance Day ceremony at Osgoode Hall By yamri Taddese Law Times bout 60 Ontario law stu- dents who perished in the First World War re- ceived an honorary call to the bar some 100 years after they left law school for the battlefield. "Traditionally, in our Remem- brance Day ceremony, the names of the fallen are read aloud and it is noted that a number of men who gave their lives were 'never called,'" said Law Society of Upper Canada Treasurer Janet Minor during last Monday's honorary call to the bar. But this year was different. On Oct. 10, the students who never realized their dreams of practising law were called to the bar of Ontario, some of them in the presence of their descendants. "We will begin today's cer- emony by calling to the bar all these young heroes," said Minor during the special event. "Each of them made a mo- mentous and irreversible de- cision 100 years ago. We will never know their full reasons for making the choice they did, but we know it was a choice that cost them their lives." The idea to call the fallen students to the bar came from Gowling Laf leur Henderson LLP partner Patrick Shea. He not only wrote a book of biogra- phies of the students but also lo- cated many of their descendants to invite them to the ceremony. "To bring the families back to Osgoode Hall where their ancestors studied was some- thing else," says Shea. Representatives from a num- ber of regiments attended the event along with Ontario Chief Justice George Strathy and other members of the judiciary. Shea hopes the book of biogra- phies will be a "living document" on the Internet with updates add- ed as more information is avail- able about the students who died. "When families arrived, some of them had letters that they brought with them. Some of them brought scrapbooks of pictures and letters from the front," he says. "I got a ton of e-mails from people providing me with new information or additional infor- mation, so what I'll be able to do, because the book is electronic, I'll be able to amend the book." After a sombre call to the bar ceremony, the event livened up at the dinner reception when families spoke with represen- tatives from the regiments in which their ancestors served. Some descendants met their own family members for the first time through the event. "They were two different lines of descendants from the same person," says Shea. "There was a lot of conversa- tion. It was electric. It was some- thing else." Shea had travelled as far as Al- berta to scour archives containing information about the students and their backgrounds and spent his vacation days at another ar- chive in Ottawa. He also took to the Internet and the Canadian Armed Forces to find the descen- dants of the students and reached out to family members he found. 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