Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario. Yet despite its founders' ambitions, it did not become the regulator of the legal profession in Nova Scotia for nearly seventy-five years. In this institutional history of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society from its inception to the Legal Profession Act of 2005, Barry Cahill provides a chronological exploration of the profession's regulation in Nova Scotia and the critical role of the society. Based on extensive research conducted on internal...

This biography is of Nova Scotian Robert Henry Winters (1910-1969) who was first elected to Parliament in 1945 and appointed to Cabinet by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent in 1948. Between 1957 and 1965 Winters was one of Canada’s most prominent businessmen, running companies specializing in resource extraction and development. Returning to politics in 1965, he was again elected to Parliament and soon joined the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lester Pearson as minister of trade and commerce. Notably, Winters placed second to Pierre Trudeau in the vote to choose the new leader of Canada’s...

This book details the life of William Stevens Fielding (1848-1929), Canada’s minister of finance for nineteen years and one of its most eminent and influential statesmen. After a successful career as a journalist in Halifax during which he rose from office boy to editor of Atlantic Canada’s leading daily newspaper, he entered provincial politics. Becoming premier of Nova Scotia in 1884, he served for twelve years, during which he established a Liberal Party ascendancy which lasted for four decades. In 1896 he was recruited by Wilfrid Laurier to be minister of finance in the new Liberal...