Annual Reports

The Osgoode Society had another excellent year in 2024. We published four books, bringing our total to 125 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had another excellent year in 2023. We published three books, bringing our total to 121 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had another excellent year in 2022. We published three books, bringing our total to 118 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had another excellent year in 2021. We published four books, bringing our total to 115 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had an excellent year in 2020. We published two books, bringing our total to 111 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had an excellent year in 2019. We published two books, bringing our total to 109 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had an excellent year in 2018. We published two books, bringing our total to 107 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society had another very good year in 2017. We published two books, bringing our total to

2016 was another excellent year for the Society. Our three books published this year brought our total to 103 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

2015 was a banner year for the Society. The four books launched in Convocation Hall brought our total to 100 since the publishing programme began in 1981.

The Osgoode Society has had another good year. We published four books, on a wide range of topics. The fact that our books dealt with the history of our legal system at the elite level (Christopher Moore’s history of the Ontario Court of Appeal) and at the level of every day social and economic regulation (Paul Craven’s examination of the preConfederation sessions system in New Brunswick) is itself testament to the richness and variety of the field and of the Society’s promotion of it.

It was a particular pleasure to play the role of master of ceremonies at our book launch at Osgoode Hall on October 30th, 2013. A very large crowd – more than permitted by fire regulations! – turned out to celebrate our four new books, particularly to mark the publication of our members’ book, Roy McMurtry’s Memoirs and Reflections.

In early February of this year our members’ book for 2012, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada, was the subject of an extensive discussion on the Radio-Canada show Medium Large. Francis Langlois, a history professor at the Cégep de Trois-Rivieres, discussed the book in detail, and gave it high praise as an exemplary piece of scholarship and the definitive study of the topic in Canada. Arming and Disarming has also been featured in a number of other media stories across the country, and received an excellent review in the Literary Review of Canada.

We have had another very good year. The publication programme produced another four first class books (discussed below), and there are plenty of titles at various stages for the future. They
include a history of the Ontario Court of Appeal, the memoirs of Roy McMurtry, a biography of the Hon. G. Arthur Martin, as well as works on early women lawyers, Upper and Lower Canada, and a prominent Toronto law firm.