- CA QUA01244
- Family
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Kingston restaurant owner and Peter Lee and family active in Chinese Canadian community. Lee family was 1st Chinese family in Kingston to have child born in Canada.
Kingston restaurant owner and Peter Lee and family active in Chinese Canadian community. Lee family was 1st Chinese family in Kingston to have child born in Canada.
William Ralph Lederman was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1940), and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He made a name for himself as one of Canada's leading constitutional lawyers while teaching at Dalhousie University (1949-1958). In 1958, he was invited to become the first Dean of Law in the third iteration of Queen's University at Kingston's Faculty of Law, a post he held until 1968, He continued to teach in the Faculty until the 1980s. W.R. Lederman was constitutional adviser to then-Ontario Premier John Robarts, between 1965 and 1971, and was a mentor to many other constitutional scholars in Canada. William Ralph Lederman died in KIngston, in 1992.