Blog hiatus
Blogging has been a little intermittent in January, for rather boring reasons. It's about to get slower. The blogger is going south for a couple of weeks and expects not to blog at all or very little.
Back in mid-February.
History of Edith Sheppard
The obituaries in December 2017 included Ernest Revell , retired University of Toronto professor of Near Eastern Studies and published watercolour artist . He is memorable to me as a child of Edith Sheppard, an early Canadian woman lawyer (called to the bar 1925) who practised for several years with the prominent Toronto firm of McCarthy & McCarthy, and whom we "discovered" during my research in the history of that firm, as noted in the 2005 history of McCarthy Tetrault . A biography of Edith Sheppard which was commissioned by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography -- but which the DCB has so far declined to publish -- has long lain among my own archives of lost projects. For those who may be interested, I have included the unedited text below the jump: Sheppard, Edith Mary Peckham , lawyer; born 3 August 1900 at Brul� Lake, Ontario, daughter of Charles Henry Sheppard and Ellen Frances Stocking; married 14 June 1929 at Bombay, India, to Captain Alfred John Revell of...
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