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The Great War Law Student Memorial Project, E. Patrick Shea, Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson (Firm), Highlanders Foundation Jan 2014

The Great War Law Student Memorial Project, E. Patrick Shea, Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson (Firm), Highlanders Foundation

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The Project

In March of 2012, Captain (ret’d) E. Patrick Shea, C.S., a partner in Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and a former Reserve Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, wrote to Thomas G. Conway, the Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, to propose that honorary calls be provided to the Law Society of Upper Canada students killed in the First World War. Shea’s proposal was accepted by the Law Society and he began to research the 59 students listed on the Law Society’s WWI Memorial to prepare biographies and locate living descendants.

In conducting research to prepare biographies, …