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	Supreme Court of Canada - Bertha Wilson
		Bertha Wilson was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, on September 18, 1923.
		She married the Reverend John Wilson in December 1945 and they emigrated to Canada in 1949.
		Justice Wilson served on the Supreme Court for eight years and retired on January 4, 1991.
	www.scc-csc.gc.ca /aboutcourt/judges/wilson/index_e.asp (168 words)

	\| Reviews / Comptes Rendus \| Labour/Le Travail, 51 \| The History Cooperative
		She detects a series of influences on Wilson's juridical understanding: academic studies of philosophy, an "unconscious process of acculturation in the doctrines of the Scottish Enlightenment," the influence of the "Church of Scotland ethos," and a "distinctively principled and moral" postmodernism.
		Wilson experienced social exclusion as one of Dalhousie's early women law students, none of whom were welcome in the university common room or the local fishermen's tavern where the other students lingered.
		Task Force on Gender Equality that Wilson felt "her first unequivocal and deeply personal experience of gender discrimination." (57, 64, 94, and 349) This may have been Wilson's own assessment, and it is a perspective that was common for women lawyers and judges of her generation to assume.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/51/br_13.html (1098 words)

	Wilson, Bertha
		Wilson, Bertha, née Wernham, lawyer, judge (b at Kirkcaldy, Scot 18 Sept 1923), first woman appointed to the SUPREME COURT OF CANADA.
		She was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in December 1975 and captured public attention by her imaginative and humane decisions in cases involving human rights, ethnic and sex discrimination, matrimonial property, child custody and the access of citizens to information about themselves collected by government and police.
		Since then she has participated in several Supreme Court decisions, one of the most momentous of which is probably striking down Canadian ABORTION law in early 1988 and in the same year she was appointed a commissioner on the Erasmus-Dussault royal commission on native issues.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008618 (255 words)

	Lobbying hurt court, book says
		Wilson said her exclusion from these meetings forced her to depend on law clerks to ferret out information about judicial factions that were coalescing for or against a ruling.
		Wilson was an honest judge who was willing to change her view if a colleague could convince her she was in error, she refused to engage in the kind of "horse-trading" that unites judges and results in strong, common opinions.
		Wilson said the lobbying was an ominous omen for the future of the court and the Charter.
	www.fact.on.ca /news/news0203/gm020311.htm (815 words)

	Judging Bertha Wilson: Law as Large as Life, Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J.L. Cohen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilson's path-breaking career as a lawyer and judge possessing an extraordinary ability to see through tangled legal issues and to offer provocative insights on the relationships among individuals, the state, the law, and the courts, is a life of achievement, of making one's mark, and of opening doors for others to follow.
		Although Wilson lugged briefs home on the weekend, her outlook owed as much to her background and the way she lived her life as it did to law offices and the rarified view from the bench.
		The opening two chapters on Wilson's life before law school are certainly intriguing and, despite her mother's persistence that young Bertha pursue educational opportunities, there was little to suggest that Wilson was bound for a life in the law, let alone a seat on Canada's highest court.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/834/judging3.html (1267 words)

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		Bertha Wilson came to the law late in life, after she and her husband, a Presbyterian minister, moved from their native Scotland to Canada in 1949.
		Wilson's jurisprudence is "principled contextuality," a rule-based incorporation of particular circumstances of those affected by a law into a judgment of its constitutionality.
		For Wilson, principled contextuality married legal modernism and what Anderson calls her Scottish Enlightenment pragmatism by maintaining that the attention to context was principled by virtue of the defined procedures in court and in jurisprudential analysis set to guide it.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/andersonjbw.htm (1861 words)

	Law: Bertha Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bertha Wilson (Herstory 1986) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on 4 March 1982.
		As a member of the Supreme Court, she wrote many important decisions, including the controversial d ecision that overturned the section of the criminal code dealing with abortion.
		Bertha Wilson's decisions showed courage and a keen legal insight.
	library2.usask.ca /herstory/wilson.html (119 words)

	Right to Life of Michigan, seeking peaceful, life-affirming solutions
		Bertha Wilson, a board member of Grand Rapids Right to Life and mother of four, was beginning to wonder why she was feeling so fatigued until a trip to the doctor's discovered that her blood counts were extremely low.
		The current plan is for the doctors to continue to monitor Bertha's blood count and to look for a better match while she remains stable, but if the count on her white blood cells begins to drop, the Wilsons would then be pressed into relying on the imperfect and potentially less successful match.
		Bertha is just one of many people whose lives could be or have been saved through research and therapies using adult stem cells and stem cells from umbilical cords.
	www.rtl.org /html/rlm_news/JuneJuly2003/challenges.html (581 words)

	Amazon.de: Judging Bertha Wilson: Law as Large as Life (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (Paperback)): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history.
		Wilson's contributions to the areas of human rights law and equality jurisprudence are many and well known.
		Through a survey of Wilson's judgments, memos and academic writings, Ellen Anderson shows how Wilson's life and the law were seamlessly integrated in her persistent commitment to a stance of principled contextuality.
	www.amazon.de /Judging-Bertha-Wilson-Canadian-Paperback/dp/0802085822 (422 words)

	Valley Morning Star Online Edition
		Bertha Wilson and her husband are owners of Rio Tex Wholesale Deli Meats in Mercedes, which supplies more than 350 stores and wholesalers in South Texas.
		Bertha Wilson has been an occupational therapist, a restaurateur, a business owner, a philanthropist and a world traveler.
		Wilson, a Mercedes native, graduated from Texas Woman's University with a degree in occupational therapy.
	valleystar.com /articles/2006/11/28/slice_of_life/slice_of_life.txt (442 words)

	Volume 41(1) Democracy, Judging and Bertha Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By appropriating a quasi-legislative role for the judiciary, the authors suggest, Justice Wilson neglected to respect the separation of powers doctrine, with the result that she breached the basic democratic principles of elected governance and accountability.
		Part III is highly critical of the “contextual approach” developed by Justice Wilson in her judgments and argues that it leads to decisions which are divorced from principle and based solely on a subjective theory of interpretation.
		The authors conclude that the approach to adjudication undertaken by Justice Wilson was inappropriate in and an affront to liberal democracy.
	www.journal.law.mcgill.ca /abs/vol41/1hawki.html (600 words)

	Bertha Wilson - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bertha Wilson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilson, Bertha, born in 1923, Canadian jurist and the first woman justice on the Supreme Court of Canada (1982-1991).
		Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow (1856-1924), 28th president of the United States (1913-1921), enacted significant reform legislation and led the United...
	encarta.msn.com /Bertha_Wilson.html (87 words)

	Deputy superintendent retires, welcomes new role in CRSD
		Dr. Bertha Wilson, who has been deputy superintendent of CRSD for the past five years, said her farewells to the board during her last official board meeting on May 13.
		From 1986 to 1994, Wilson served as superintendent for the Drumheller Catholic District.
		As Wilson was saying farewell to the CRSD board, she in turn received praise for her hard work and dedication to the division, schools, staff and students.
	www.westernwheel.com /000517/news-superintendent.html (342 words)

	News-Register.com
		Memorial services for Bertha Wilson, a longtime Yamhill County resident, will be held at 7 p.m.
		Born March 26, 1942, in Sacramento, Calif., she was the daughter of Jesse "Ray" and Bessie Eyman.
		Wilson made her home in Sheridan for many years.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=213598 (178 words)

	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		Justice Bertha Wilson, who retired from the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991, and Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, who currently serves on the Court of Appeal for Ontario, have had long and esteemed careers in the Canadian judicial system.
		Justice Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Justice Wilson is known for her human rights jurisprudence and as a Supreme Court justice who wrote many landmark decisions; particularly in the areas of equality and fundamental rights.
	www.hri.ca /tribune/viewArticle.asp?ID=2741 (766 words)

	Wilson's Air Technologies: About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilson's Air Technologies Inc. is committed to bringing you the highest quality professional HVACR services available.
		Wilson's Air Technologies, Inc was founded in 1979 by William "Bill" Wilson and his wife Bertha Wilson under the name Wilson Refrigeration Service, Inc. Bill had worked in the industry in the local area for twenty years and had an extensive background in refrigeration, heating and cooling systems.
		The company is now owned and operated by longtime employee Michael Hendrickson and Bill's son Douglas Wilson who has been with the company since 1987.
	www.wilsonsairtechnologies.com /About_Us.html (259 words)

	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bertha Wilson is the first woman to be appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
		Wilson is remarkably frank about the many issues affecting judicial decision-making as the Court struggled with Charter interpretation.
		The Bertha Wilson story begins with her Scottish values and experiences and it concludes with her gruelling years on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
	www.osgoodesociety.ca /books/book-20014.html (339 words)

	International Commission of Jurists
		Bertha Wilson, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada share this prestigious award in recognition of their commitment to and passion for (...)
		Bertha Wilson, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada share this prestigious award in recognition of their commitment to and passion for social justice, equality, and human rights.
		ICJ Canada is enormously proud of Bertha Wilson and Rosalie Abella, who are so unquestionably deserving of this award in recognition of their many contributions in Canada and abroad.
	www.icj.org /news.php3?id_article=3214&lang=en (707 words)

	Bertha - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		I don't ever remember anyone telling me a real fairy story...but the tales of the gandy dancers, and of the bundle stiffs, of their jobs in the...
		By then the firm had passed first to Friedrich Krupp (1854-1902) and then, after his apparent suicide over a sex scandal, to his daughter Bertha...
		Suttner was born Bertha Sophie Felicita Kinsky in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Bertha&pg=1&grp=art (218 words)

	Honorary degree recipients :: University of Saskatchewan Archives
		They then moved to Ontario, where Bertha Wilson was admitted to the Bar and practised law with a prominent Toronto law firm, being appointed Queen's Counsel in 1973.
		In 1976, she was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal, and in 1982, she became the first woman to be appointed to the nation's highest court, the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Eminent Chancellor, I am honoured to present to you Bertha Wilson, and ask that you confer on her the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.
	www.usask.ca /archives/history/hondegrees.php?id=421&view=detail (370 words)

	Finally, a woman on Canada's Supreme Court - "On This Day" - CBC Archives
		When Bertha Wilson applied to law school, in 1954, she was told to go home and take up crocheting.
		• Bertha Wilson was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in 1923.
		She rarely spoke publicly, but in 1990 she gave a speech to Toronto's Osgoode Hall law school in which she said certain aspects of Canadian criminal law were biased against women.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-74-2150-13096-10/on_this_day/people/twt (768 words)

	Canadian publisher University of Toronto Press Online Book Catalogue
		This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society for Legal History, held in Scotland and Canada with Madame Justice Wilson, as well as with her friends, relatives, and colleagues.
		Through a scrupulous survey of Wilson's judgements, memos, and academic writings (many as yet unpublished), Ellen Anderson shows how Wilson's life and the law were seamlessly integrated in her persistent commitment to a stance of principled contextuality.
		Supported with the warmth and generosity of Wilson's numerous personal anecdotes, this work illuminates the life and throught of a woman who has left an extraordinary mark on Canada's legal landscape.
	www.utppublishing.com /pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=7563&step=4 (468 words)

	Canadian Conservative Forum - Requested Essay
		Probably the mildest thing I can say about the Bertha Wilson committee's Report on Gender Equality in the Legal Profession is that it is excruciatingly repetitive.
		Not only is there no such thing as a neutral view of the world, but there is also no such thing as a white view, a masculine view, or a heterosexual view.
		Then the collectivists have the nerve to tell dissenters, as Bertha Wilson told lawyers in a recent magazine interview, that all this collectivist stuff is really for their own good.
	www.conservativeforum.org /EssaysForm.asp?ID=6137 (1000 words)

	Amazon.com: "Bertha Wilson": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was Bertha Wilson* of the Ontario Court of Appeal, who was later to be her colleague at the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Tall, striking, and naive, Bertha Wilson may have had a schoolgirl's crush on a famous ballplayer, and Satch may have merely seen an opening into something...
		Making the Difference In 1982, Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada (she is still only the fourth).
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Bertha-Wilson (600 words)

	Superintendent's Advisory Council for April 2006
		Sanchez allowed SAC community member Bertha Wilson to explain the reason for wearing western attire, including a western hat.
		Wilson said that she and her husband Charlie recently returned from a Rotary International leadership (president-elect) conference in Dallas, where they served as Chief Rangers.
		She was told that the district contracts with the Regional School for the Deaf in Brownsville, where students attend for 1/2 day, then return to the district for the remainder of the day.
	www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us /News/SAC/SAC06_Apr.html (1299 words)

	The Wilson Moot - UBC Faculty of Law
		The Wilson Moot was established in 1992 to honour the outstanding contribution to Canadian law made by Madam Justice Bertha Wilson and, in the spirit of this contribution, to promote justice for those traditionally disempowered within the legal system.
		The goal of the Wilson Moot is to explore legal issues concerning women and minorities and thereby to promote the education of students and the legal profession in these areas.
		The Wilson Moot team is generously supported by the Vancouver office of Heenan Blaikie.
	www.law.ubc.ca /moots/comp/wilson.html (320 words)

	miller - pafn03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Thomas H. Wilson, 73 of 703 S. Third Ave, W. a resident of Newton for 20 years, died this morning in Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines.
		Survivors are his wife, Bertha; a son, James of Kennett Square, Pa.; a daughter, Mrs.
		Wilson was a member of the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
	iagenweb.org /jasper/families/miller/pafn03.htm (8439 words)

	September 2000 Archive - News Headlines - Willamette University
		The Maynard and Bertha Wilson Endowed Professorship will be used to recruit an outstanding, nationally acclaimed scholar who will lead Willamette’s revitalized Law and Government Program.
		Maynard Wilson graduated from Willamette University College of Law in 1940 and practiced law for more than 50 years in Cottage Grove, Ore. He was a hard-working, honorable and dignified man. He was a pillar of his community and gave back to it in multiple ways, including his help in establishing the Cottage Grove Hospital.
		As a result of this bequest, the Maynard and Bertha Wilson name will be associated with Willamette and academic excellence in perpetuity.
	blog.willamette.edu /news/archives/2000/09 (1628 words)

	Justice News 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Madame Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, a Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, were selected by the Foundation's Justice Advisory Board, a group of seven eminent international jurists and attorneys, to receive the third annual award.
		Justice Dubé added, "Both Bertha Wilson and Rosie Abella, on and off the Bench, have promoted the rights of outsiders and are champions of human rights and equality.
		The citation from the Peter Gruber Foundation announcing Justices Wilson and Abella as this year's winners reads, "Madame Justices Wilson and Abella have broken barriers limiting participation of women in the legal system and enriched jurisprudence in Canada and beyond with their innovative vision and technique.
	www.petergruberfoundation.org /justice/justice_news2003.htm (611 words)

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