Lyman Duff

The Right Honourable Sir Lyman Poore Duff (Known as "Sir Lyman Duff")

Eighth Chief Justice of Canada, Privy Council Jurist

Born Jan 07, 1865

Meaford (Ontario), Canada

Passed Away Apr 26, 1955 Ottawa, Canada

Lifespan 90 years old

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Archival Overview

Supreme Court titan who served for thirty-eight years on Canada's highest bench, authoring seminal judgments on federal-provincial division of powers and constitutional interpretation.

Biographical Record

Duff was a brilliant graduate of the University of Toronto who established a prominent law practice in Victoria before being elevated to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In 1906, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier appointed him to the Supreme Court of Canada at age forty-one.

Appointed Chief Justice in 1933, Duff served until 1944, gaining international renown for his razor-sharp legal scholarship on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. His decisions on the Bennett New Deal and the British North America Act defined the constitutional architecture of 20th-century Canada.

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Beechwood Cemetery
Ottawa, Canada

                         GPS: 45.4450, -75.6600                    

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