Helen Kinnear
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Helen Alice Kinnear, was a Canadian lawyer and judge. She was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to be made a King's Counsel, the first female lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court of Cana
Kinnear (ca. 1943)
Graduation photo from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1920
Port Colborne
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Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario. The original settlement, known as Gravelly
Helen Kinnear
…of Toronto. Afterward she attended Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario bar, to become a lawyer, in 1920. Kinnear practised law in Port Colborne, Ontario, where she initially practised with her father, who renamed the firm Kinnear & Kinnear. When her father died in 1924, she opened her own…
Former bank building on West Street in Port Colborne
Canal Days 2019
Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum
Welland Canal in Port Colborne