Fifty years in a law profession she loves, twenty-four of which were spent as judge, Nancy Morrison has stories to tell. Entertaining, at times warm and witty, this is also a memoir that reminds us of dark days. With family roots in the Maritimes and Prairies, Nancy Morrison’s career spanned three provinces and two territories, as a lawyer, arbitrator and judge. Although the book has a light touch, it also nudges us on the social and political issues of the day and the need for law reform. Here is a life that was never dull, including the twenty-four years Nancy shared with actor Bruno Gerussi (from one of the introductions in the book.) Nancy begins her story about growing up in Yorkton, Saskatchewan with early childhood recalls of ominous sounds of planes overhead. The pilots of these planes were on learning-to-fly missions, day and night taking off from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan flight school a few miles north of Yorkton. Her narrative also begins with her ancestral maternal connection to the settlement of Yorkton in 1882, with two great-uncles, William and Ted Hopkins from London, England who were first to winter with two other pioneers in York Colony. On the paternal side, her father, a bit short on ancestral story-telling, described life in Scotland to his daughter in this way: “They ate porridge and stole sheep from the English.” Once you begin reading this book, you will want to turn to the next page always to find more stories of humour, social events and Nancy’s dedicated work in the legal and political world. This is a great Western and Eastern Canadian story! Order/Inquire at COLES in Yorkton, Amazon or Indigo. Price $35.00.
Contact Terri Lefebvre Prince,
Heritage Researcher,
City of Yorkton Archives,
Box 400, 37 Third Avenue North
Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W3
306-786-1722
heritage@yorkton.ca
