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.
House of Lords research materials on divorce. Copies of historical legislation only.
Transcripts from House of Commons debate regarding electoral franchise and woman's suffrage.
Copy of a letter from Nellie McClung to Miss Steadman about publishing a story.
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.
Copy of the petition presented to William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1922 asking him to appoint Emily Murphy to the Senate. Also includes a 2009 reflection on Protests and Petitions.
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,
Correspondence and telegrams to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King suggesting Emily Murphy be appointed Senator. Also includes meeting minutes from the Senate.
Supreme Court of Canada proceedings and proceedings of the appeal to the Privy Council for the Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada.
Correspondence, memorandum, copies of newspaper clippings, meeting minutes of the Privy Council, telegrams, and research from the original Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada.
Proceedings of the appeal to the Privy Council for the Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada. Also contains Supreme Court of Canada proceedings and memorandum on the Persons Case.
Correspondence, memorandum, notices from the Supreme Court, telegrams, and research from the original Persons Case and the reference to the Supreme Court regarding admission of women to the Senate of Canada.
Correspondence, copywrite of plaque, and draft speech in honour of the Persons Case, awarded by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Newspaper clippings regarding World War II.
Personal correspondence to ME Ritchie from various classmates at the University of Alberta and Dalhousie University including Richard Wigmore.
The book "Emily Murphy: Crusader" by Byrne Hope Sanders that inspired M.E. Ritchie to focus on women's rights and the Persons Case. Also includes a 2009 reflection on the significance of the book.
Personal correspondence to ME Ritchie from various classmates at the University of Alberta and Dalhousie University, family, and friends.
Reports, excerpts, and encyclopedia entries regarding the end of the League of Nations.
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.
Year Book of the united Nations from the General Assembly and the Security Council regarding Palestine and Israel.
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.
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.
House of Commons debates regarding Human Rights.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, trial preparation suggestions, trial exhibits table of contents, and excerpts of documentation regarding the Western Bread Case at the Alberta Supreme Court.
"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.
Dominion Law Reports and court documents from provincial courts on divorce, alimony, and criminal law. Copies of historical legislation only.
Correspondence, memorandum, criminal case rulings, and court rulings of the Alberta Supreme Court, regarding the Combines Investigation Act and subsequent court proceedings for the Western Bread Case.
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.
Correspondence, briefs, speeches, and resolutions regarding the Canadian Federation of University Women's work on succession duties, equal legal and political rights, and women's righrs, as well as work M.E. Ritchie did for the federation.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, legal research, draft conventions, press releases, copies of newspaper clippings, and United Nations treaties regarding political rights of women and the status of women.
Memorandum and correspondence regarding citizenship for women after marriage to a foreigner and League of Nations documents on trafficing women and children.
"Perspective: Human Rights and the Individual in International Law" by ME Ritchie.
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.
Memorandum, meeting minute extracts, and correspondence copied from archival records regarding relocation of Inuit families to the northern arctic and treatment of Inuit people by the government, Northern Administration, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
An extract from the "Revue Hellenique de droit international" entitled "The Scope of the Warsaw Convention" by Constantine C. Hadjidimoulas and photographs from the Warsaw Convention.
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.
House of Commons debates and indices regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, foreign policy, and the Middle East.
Personal correspondence to ME Ritchie from various family, coworkers, and friends.
Memorandum, articles, House of Commons debates, fact sheets, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, letter to the editor, and correspondence regarding marriage taxation laws, succession duty, estate tax, status rights of married women, and women's roles.
Dominion Law Reports and court documents from provincial courts on various divorce cases. Copies of historical legislation only.
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.
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.
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.
Correspondence, memorandum, and notes regarding ME Ritchie's work for the Department of Justice on the Reparations and Enemy Assets case for the Ambrican trust of Heinrich Koppers.
House of Commons debates and Senate debates regarding equal pay for women.
House of Commons debates and indices regarding Arab-Israeli conflicts, foreign policy, Egypt and the Suez Canal, and the Middle East.
Correspondence, memorandum, case reports, and notes regarding contempt of court, foreign relations, operations of the House of Commons and closure.
Memorandum and notes regarding divorce, widows, veterans benefits, wills and estates, taxes, suffrage, women's status, gross indecency laws, equal pay, and the nationality of married persons.
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.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, legal research, and aide memoires regarding an agreement between the Netherlands government and the Nova Scotia Land Settlement Board about immigrants.
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).
Correspondence, newsletters, memorandum, speeches, programmes, resolutions, and fact sheets regarding status of women, succession duty, and penal reform.
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.
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, minutes of the Senate, and Senate standing committee on Banking and Commerce proceedings regarding estate tax and discrimination against women in tax law.
Correspondence, memorandum, and notes regarding ME Ritchie's work for the Department of Justice on the Reparations and Enemy Assets case for the Ambrican trust of Heinrich Koppers.
"Crimes Abord Aircraft: Book II (Footnotes and Appendices)" by ME Ritchie as part of the LL.M thesis at the Institute of International Air Law at McGill University.
Memorandum regarding a draft of the Bill of Rights.
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,
Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce: Report and "Women in Britain: Their Part in Public Affairs" published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.1951
Justice department correspondence, memorandum, draft articles, and notes regarding the draft regime of the High seas, territorial waters and fisheries, and contiguous zones. Also included is a statement to the United Nations on territorial waters. File also includes a 2009 reflection of the events of the Offshore claims by Dr. Ritchie.
Papers and theses from ME Ritchie's LL.M from the Institute of International Air Law at McGill University, including "Canadian Aspects of International Air Law" and "Crimes Abourd Aircraft."
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.
Criminal code and copies of book chapters regarding vagrants, public morals, public nuisance, women's rights, dower laws, women in the criminal justice system, delinquents, and women in politics.
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.
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.
Notes, memorandum, correspondence, reports, speeches, supplements, treaties, and international agreements regarding the United Nations Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Related Practices.
Notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, memorandum, summaries, conventions, resolutions, speeches, and agreements regarding Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and war crimes.
Notes, memorandum, correspondence, and questionairres regarding the Status of Women and legal age for marriage.
Correspondence, memorandum, reports, and notes regardings divorce law reform, predominately concerned with age of consent, divorce requirements and issues of desertion, destitute wives and the rights of married women.
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.
Annual editions of "The Chronicle" published by the Canadian Federation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women newsletter number 6.
Newspaper clippings regarding the police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
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.
Newspaper clippings regarding women's employment and women's role as housewife, wives, and mothers.
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.
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.
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.
Newspaper clippings regarding crime, the police, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
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.
Newspaper clippings regarding juvenile deliquents, beauty standards, sexual assault, gender roles and stereotypes.
Newspaper clippings regarding women's employment and breaking gender barriers.
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.
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.
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.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, draft papers, and research project proposals exchanged between M.E. Ritchie and Dr. Elizabeth M. Drews, psychology professor, regarding women's role in society, education, and gender inequality. Much of research refers to the impact of early marriage.
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.
Newspaper clippings reporting women's capacities.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, preliminary inquiry, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the Western Bread Case at the Alberta Supreme Court.
Newspaper clippings regarding women in politics.
Newspaper clippings regarding Jews, women's roles, women's education and employment.
Newspaper clippings regarding women's employment.
Correspondence, memorandum, and notes regarding criminal law, government loan programmes, visits from foreign officials, the Broadcasting Act, the Fair Employment Practices Act, veterans affairs, taxes, and other day to day issues.
Correspondence, memorandum, notes, legal research, conventions, and resolutions regarding principles of freedom and non-discrimination in political rights and rights of women in foreign countries.
Provincial and federal legislation and court documents regarding family law, child welfare, and dowry rights.
Correspondence, reports, notes, statistics, debates of the Senate (volume 107, number 74), tables of contents, speeches, transcripts of television broadcasts, and proposals regarding family law, women's employment, and the status of women in different countries.
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.
A copy of Women in Prison: A Study in Penal Methods by Ann. D. Smith, published by Stevens and Sons Ltd.
Correspondence, reports, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings regarding women's rights, women working in education, religion, divorce, women in politics, and women Senators.
Memorandum, notes, and correspondence regarding the interdepartmental committee on human rights and the Human Right Commission.