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PATTERSON, Henry Stuart (47255)

Birth

  • Born on October 09, 1913 in Calgary, Calgary Region, AB

Death

  • Died on 1990 in Calgary, Calgary Region, AB
  • Buried in Eden Brook Memorial Gardens in Calgary, Calgary Region, AB

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Children

Notes

  • Occupation: Lawyer/ Justice of Court of Queen's Bench
  • Military Service: WW2 RC Army Signal Corps
  • Historical Information: Born in Calgary, on October 9th, 1913, he remembered riding through parts of Elbow Park near his later home on 32nd Avenue.(720) Patterson left Calgary to attend the University of Alberta, receiving a Bachelor of arts in 1936 and a Bachelor of Law in 1937. Returning after graduation, he articled with his father, Henry Patterson Sr. and his partner W.A. MacDonald. Called to the bar in 1938, he was not a lawyer long before enlisting in the Signal Corps in 1940, serving with the 1st and 3rd Signals Divisions and participating in the Normandy invasion. Upon returning to Calgary he resumed his law career, and was elected president of the Law Society of Alberta for 1948 and 1949. Outside of the law, Patterson was an avid outdoorsman, following his father's example. He owned several horses and rode frequently in the mountains and foothills and was also an ardent skier and mountain climber. In 1952, however, he was stricken with polio, the dreaded childhood disease, which often attacked adults. The attack left him bedridden for over six months, and in a wheelchair for a year and a half. A rugged constitution, willpower and a gruelling program of physical therapy and exercise allowed him to walk again unassisted for a number of years. His inability to ride and hike pained him and he turned to gardening. By 1955, however, he had restored his mobility to the point that he went along on his father's third trip to the Nahani River area in the North West Territories. His disability did long hinder Patterson's legal career. In 1955 he was the president of the Calgary Bar Association. In 1960 he was named to the District Court of southern Alberta in Calgary, which became the Court of Queen's Bench, sitting until his retirement in 1988. Patterson's notable judgements were mostly in corporate and constitutional law, and overall he was considered a competent if not particularly distinguished jurist.(721) He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1963. Patterson and his wife Lydia had a large family, three daughters and a son. Before her marriage, Lydia, born Lydia Stuart in Kentville, Nova Scotia, had been a medical research technician. When Patterson was overseas during the war, Lydia had been carrying out research in bacteriological warfare at Queen's University! The family lived at 816 32nd Avenue from 1958 to the present.(722) Henry Patterson Jr. died in 1990.

Sources

  • Cemetery: Eden Brook Memorial Gardens Calgary,AB

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