Mark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based lawyer and historian who has written a dozen books on topics ranging from Great Lakes shipwrecks to Stephen Harper’s attempts to control government information. His next book, Bushrunner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson, will be published by Biblioasis this spring.
In the 1890s, a very privileged handful of students was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School, in classes run by the Law Society of Upper Canada. The school had just five members in its faculty, three of whom had law degrees. Most of the classes seem to have been taught by R.E. Kingsford and P.H. Drayton. Kingsford had an LLB degree. Drayton did not.
