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1989-2010 (Creation)
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- Wachowich, Allan
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2cm of textual records.
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Born Allan Harvey Joseph Wachowich to Polish parents his family was one of the first five Polish families to immigrate to Alberta in 1944. Wachowich attended St. Joseph’s highschool as was an altar boy at St. Josephs Basilica.
While Wachowich originally intended to be a priest his education lead him to a long career in law. He received both his Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and his Bachelor of Laws in 1958 from the University of Alberta. He was called to the bar in 1959 and held a number of positions before being appointed Chief Justice of Alberta in 1993 a position he held until 2009 when he retired at the age of 75.
Wachowich served on the boards of many religious organizations including the Western Catholic Reporter, the Friars, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, Catholic Charities, and he founded St. Thomas Moore Catholic Lawyer’s Guild in 1963.
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Fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence related to Wachowich’s duties on a number of archdiocesan committees and councils. The fonds is arranged into a single series, Correspondence (1989-2010).
File List:
1-1 : Correspondence with the Archbishop : 1997-2010
1-2 : General Correspondence : 1989-2005
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Transferred to the Archdiocese Archives in 2010 by Father Mike McCaffery. See the accession file for additional information.
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See also the priest files in the Archdiocese of Edmonton Archives.
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