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L.Y. Cairns School
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Dates of existence
1968-
History
Named after Laurence Yeomans Cairns (1892-1967) who was a Canadian lawyer and judge. Cairns served as Chancellor of the University of Alberta from 1958 to 1964. Cairns was a World War I veteran, appointed to King's Counsel in 1935, a judge on the District Court of Northern Alberta and on the Supreme Court of Alberta. In 1950 he was the President of the Alberta Law Society, and was an Edmonton Public School Board Trustee from 1932-1933.
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10510 45 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta T6H 0A1
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Record created September 27, 2021.
Record revised August 26, 2022.
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- English
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Sources
University of Alberta Centenary http://wayback.archive-it.org/1830/20140930204034/http://www.ualbertacentennial.ca/organization/chancellors/cairns.html
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Record created by AE.
Record revised by KM.