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CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION
File · 1966 - 197
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, pamphlettes, submissions, notices, press releases, reports, bar review articles, and newspaper clippings regarding the Canadian Bar Association, women in legal professions, violence against women, women's rights, aboriginal rights, Senate reform, and human rights.

LEGAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
File · 1869 - 1920
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on divorce, alimony, and child custody. Copies of historical legislation only.

Research on Senator Jacques Bureau and the role of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Senator Bureau, and W.A. Buchanan in passing over Emily Murphy for Senator. Includes correspondence and an interim report of the Commission on Customs and Excise,

File · 1916 - 1948
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

A copy of The German Woman and her Master by Henry de Halsalle and C. Sheridan Jones, published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.; a copy of Caroline Norton by Alice Acland, annotated with notes from M.E. Ritchie and others, published by Constable and Company Ltd.

LEGAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
File · 1881 - 1948
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on immigration. Copies of historical legislation only.

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES
File · 1947 - 1948
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of London Parliamentary debates (Hansard) third to ninth volume of session 1947-48, Fifth series, volumes 445-451, with annotations, regarding Israel, Palestine, war crimes, and Arab-Israeli conflicts.

RESEARCH
File · 1947 - 1949
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

"Part One: The United Nations" from the United Nations Yearbooks 1947-48 and 1948-49, "The Palestine Question" or "The Question of Palestine" from UN Yearbooks 1947-48 (p. 227, p. 403) and 1948-49, "City of Jerusalem," "The Egyptian Question," "Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine" and page 499 from UN Yearbook 1947-48.

CREDENTIALS
File · 1939 - 1952
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Reference letters, job duty descriptions, copies of newspaper clippings, notes, and correspondence regarding ME Ritchie's schooling, career path, talks she gave on women's rights, and some of the work she did. Also includes the Alberta Law Quarterly vol. 5, no. 4.

File · 1941 - 1954
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Reports, newspaper clippings, interview transcript, and reference papers regarding ship building and wage control, including equal pay for women. File also includes a 2008 reflection on working in theResearch and Statistics Section of the Department of Labour during World War 2.

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) bulletin and a copy of the final act of the international conference on private air law held under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization at The Hague. File also includes a 2009 reflection on how Dr. Ritchie became an expert in International Air Law while at the Justice Department.

File · 1930 - 1955
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, copies of newspaper clippings, court transcriptions, and divorce legislation regarding the foreign marriages act, joint property in divorce and death cases, separation and divorce legislation, legislation regarding rights of widows, payment to widows and children of public servants, and various divorce cases used to illustrate various shortcomings of divorce legislation.

File · 1945 - 1956
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, and extracts regarding ME Ritchie's work for the Department of Justice on the Reparations and Enemy Assets case for the Ambrican trust of Heinrich Koppers. Includes a 2008 reflection on the Michael Magda vs. the Crown legal case for reparations of wartime imprisonment for refusing to join the military.

File · 1944 - 1956
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Invitations, brochures, correspondence (including greeting cards), copies of newspaper clippings (including photos), notes, revisions to the Constitution and Bylaws, meeting preparations, minutes, treasurer's reports, directories, excerpt from Encyclopedia Brittanica article "Women, Education of," corresonding secretary's reports, highlights in clubs activities, notes, resumes, blueprints of the Ottawa Courthouse, article excerpts, poems, songs, and questionnaires regarding the University Women's Club and M.E. Ritchie's involvement as vice-president and president, including resolutions on the equal rights of women in law and education. Acts consulted include the Female Employees Fair Renumeration Act, 1951, and the position of widows under the Dominion Succession Act.

File · 1879 - 1957
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

The History of the Law of England as to the Effects of Marriage on Property and on the Wife's Legal Capacity by Courtney Stanhope Kenny, Fellow and Law lecturer of Downing College, Cambridge; chapters "Sterilization" and "Artificial Insemination" from The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law by Glanville Williams; The High-Caste Hindu Woman by Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati.

File · 1955 - 1957
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Memorandum, meeting minute extracts, press releases, reports, and correspondence copied from archival records regarding relocation of Inuit families to the northern arctic, employment, trade, economic issues, and treatment of Inuit people by the government, Northern Administration, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

File · 1954 - 1957
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Justice Department correspondence, meeting agendas, legal recommendations, notes, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding Internastional Air Law and crimes aboard aircrafts, as well as a conference in the Hague and coursework M.E. Ritchie undertook at McGill University regarding these issues. File also includes a 2009 reflection on how Dr. Ritchie became an expert in International Air Law while at the Justice Department.

File · 1951 - 1957
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Justice Department correspondence, memorandum, notes, and reports regarding the relationship between international and national law, human rights, and various specific international law cases, from nuclear testing on the high seas to extradition treaties. File also includes a 2009 reflection on how Dr. Ritchie became an expert in International Air Law while at the Justice Department.

SENATE DEBATES

Senate debates, minutes of the Senate, and Senate standing committee on Banking and Commerce proceedings regarding estate tax and discrimination against women in tax law.

SENATE DEBATES
File · 1953 - 1958
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

House of Commons standing committee on Banking and Commerce proceedings, Senate debates, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding women in the civil service, divorce, equal pay, estate tax, abortion, rape, the status of women, women in politics, women in prisons, jury duty forwomen for criminal cases, poverty, and women's equality,

LEGAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
File · 1800 - 1958
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on justice, marriage, and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

File · 1957 - 1959
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Justice department correspondence, memorandum, draft conventions, notes, reply to a International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) questionairre, and legal research regarding crimes aboard aircrafts and legal status of aircrafts, as well as details from ICAO Legal Committee meetings. File also includes a 2009 reflection on how Dr. Ritchie became an expert in International Air Law while at the Justice Department.

File · 1958 - 1959
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Department of Justice correspondence, press reports, court communiques, memorandum, notes, and copies of International Court of Justice reports of Judgement, advisory opinions and orders, regarding the aerial incident of Israel and Bulgaria of July 27, 1955 and subsequent court proceedings at the International Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, including Canadian claims regarding the incident.

CREDENTIALS
File · 1953 - 1959
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence, memorandum, and minutes of the Privy Council regarding ME Ritchie's career, specifically her work as President of the University Women's Club, human rights work in the Department of Justice, prejudice and discrimination against women in the civil service, ME Ritchie's acceptance into the McGill University Department of International Air Law for her LL.M, and various other accomplishments. Also includes the Final Act of the International Conference on the Private Air Law held under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization at The Hague in September 1955, which ME Ritchie attended.

LEGAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
File · 1901 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Supreme Court decisions, Privy Council decisions, Provincial legislation, legal dictionary entries, Canadian Bar Association meeting minutes, Canadian Bar Review, House of Commons debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Also includes court documents from the United States.

File · 1958 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, notes, historical legal research, copies of newspaper clippings, extracts from complaints made to the Justice Department, briefs of the National Council of Women, and Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as House of Commons routine proceedures and orders of the day regarding the legal status of women. Some mention of property rights, bigamy, and inheritance rights of illegitimate children.

File · 1958 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Justice department correspondence, memorandum, and notes regarding the Geneva conventions on the Law of the Sea and territorial waters and historical law pertaining to Vancouver Island. Also included are draft and final versions of protocols adopted by the United Nations pertaining to convention on the high seas, on fishing and conservation of the living resources of the high seas, on territorial sea and the contiguous zone, pollution of the high seas by radioactive materials, and on the continental shelf, as well as a list of signatories for each convention. File also includes a 2009 reflection of the events of the Offshore claims by Dr. Ritchie.

LEWIS DUNCAN
File · 1957 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of newspaper clippings and Supreme Court documents regarding Lewis Duncan, Q.C., being the first person to be held in contempt of court in the Supreme Court and his suicide.

LEGAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
File · 1927 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on justice system, lawyers, divorce, maintenance, child custody and welfare. Copies of historical legislation only.

File · 1957 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Copies of newspaper clippings (including photos), brochures, invitations, correspondence, Canadian Authors Association (Ottawa branch) meeting minutes, procedures, speech notes, newsletters, a transcript of a Trans-Canada Matinee new commentary (1959), reports, press releases, Canadian Federation of University Women Constitution and Bylaws, House of Commons Debates Official Report, volume 101, number 36, Ottawa (1957), and directories regarding the functioning of the University Women's Club and its resolutions, including gender equality in politics.

LEGAL RESEARCH MATERIAL
File · 1883 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Supreme Court decisions, provincial and federal legislation, legal dictionary entries, House of Commons and Senate debates, legal articles, and constitutional law research materials. Specifically research on marriage and divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.

File · 1958 - 1960
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Justice Department correspondence, memorandum, notes, and reports regarding the relationship between international and national law, human rights, and various specific international law cases, from international boundaries to the saw of the sea. File also includes a 2009 reflection on how Dr. Ritchie became an expert in International Air Law while at the Justice Department.

File · 1949 - 1961
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Quotes, copies of newspaper clippings and articles, notes, extracts from papers, reports, memorandum, proceedings, legislations, transcripts of broadcasts and addresses, "new dictionaries of thoughts," proceedings, copies of Bank and Income Tax Acts, extracts from Supreme Court reports, copies of the International Association of Women Police Annual Conference reports, and supporting materials regarding labour equality, property law, family law, and the status of women.

VOICE OF WOMEN
File · 1960 - 1962
Part of Human Rights Institute of Canada fonds

Correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, notes, press releases, and excerpts of speeches from Voice for Women (V.O.W.) primarily regarding nuclear disarmament and the arms race.