| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The subseries consists of the personal files of the Honourable Justice James Boyd McBride (1887-1960), an Edmonton lawyer admitted the Alberta Bar in 1912 who was subsequently appointed King's Counsel in 1934, a judge of the District Court of Alberta in Edmonton in 1944, a judge within the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Alberta in 1946, and a justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in 1957.
The subseries includes records related to cases heard by Justice McBride in the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Alberta, which consist of criminal law memos, files regarding both civil and criminal cases, remission applications and forms of reprieve from 1939 to 1957. The series also includes records related to cases heard by Justice McBride in the Appellate Division from 1957 to 1959. The series also contains three scrapbooks of cigarette advertisements from 1921 to 1938.
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