Wilfrid Laurier - Supreme Court Appointments

Supreme Court Appointments

Laurier chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the Governor General:

  • Sir Louis Henry Davies (25 September 1901 – 1 May 1924)
  • David Mills (8 February 1902 – 8 May 1903)
  • Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau (as Chief Justice 21 November 1902 – 2 May 1906; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Mackenzie, 7 October 1878)
  • John Douglas Armour (21 November 1902 – 11 July 1903)
  • Wallace Nesbitt (16 May 1903 – 4 October 1905)
  • Albert Clements Killam (8 August 1903 – 6 February 1905)
  • John Idington (10 February 1905 – 31 March 1927)
  • James Maclennan (5 October 1905 – 13 February 1909)
  • Sir Charles Fitzpatrick (as Chief Justice, 4 June 1906 – 21 November 1918)
  • Sir Lyman Poore Duff (27 September 1906 – 2 January 1944)
  • Francis Alexander Anglin (23 February 1909 – 28 February 1933)
  • Louis-Philippe Brodeure (11 August 1911 – 10 October 1923)

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