John Honsberger is a Toronto lawyer, who combines the practice of law with writing in different areas of law, including its history and the legal profession. He was the founding and only editor of the Law Society of Upper Canada Gazette published by the Law Society for almost thirty years. In 1979 he was a founding director of The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, in 1985 he was a first recipient of the Law Society of Upper Canada medal for outstanding service within the profession, and in 1998, was awarded the Mundel medal by the Attorney General of Ontario in recognition of his contribution to legal literature over the past fifty years.
While the building is ornate and splendid, the book is less about
architecture than an account of the men and women who strode its
halls and how they made their contributions to Canada's justice
system. John Honsberger is a Toronto Lawyer-historian whose
affection for the place resonates on every page. - Globe and Mail,
December 4, 2004
Jon Honsberger and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
have joined forces to produce a masterpiece of legal and
architectural scholarship... (T)he book is a rare achievement:
informative, highly literate, and accessible. Both the author and
the publisher are to be congratulated. H. Graham Rawlinson,
Canadian Book Review Annual
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