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Roland Ritchie
The Honourable Roland Almon Ritchie (June 19, 1910 - June 5, 1988) was a Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of William Bruce Almon Ritchie and Lillian Stewart, he received a B.A. from the University of King's College in 1930, a B.A. in 1932 from Oxford University, and was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1934.
His law practice was interupted by World War II, where he served as Assistant Deputy Judge Advocate with the Third Canadian Division from 1941 to 1944. After the war he helped found the law firm, Daley, Phinney & Ritchie. He also was a lecturer on insurance law at Dalhousie University.
In 1959, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, serving until his retirement in 1984.
In 1985 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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