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Bertha Wilson
Bertha Wilson (born September 18 1923) is a retired Canadian jurist.
Wilson was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada with her husband in 1949. She studied law at Dalhousie University and moved to Toronto in 1959 where she joined the firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt . She was the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975 and, in 1982 became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. She was the author of the court's 1988 decision that overturned the Criminal Code of Canada's restrictions on abortion. Wilson retired from the court in 1991 and was appointed to the Order of Canada that same year.
External link
- Biography of Bertha Wilson from the Supreme Court of Canada's website.
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