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Calvin F. Tallis - Portrait

Studio graduation portrait of Calvin Tallis, Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Calvin Forrester Tallis was born in 1930 and graduated from Borden High school in 1946 and Saskatoon Normal School thereafter. After teaching for a year in rural Saskatchewan he attended the University of Saskatchewan, graduating with a BA in 1952 and an LLB in 1954. He read law with Jacob M. Goldenberg and was called to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1955. He received a Queen’s Counsel appointment in 1968. Justice Tallis practiced law from 1955 to 1976 as a former partner of Goldenberg, Taylor & Tallis in Saskatoon. He also was a long-time lecturer in Civil Procedure in the College of Law at the U of S. Justice Tallis also served as vice-chairman of the Provincial Police Commission; a member of the Medical Complaints Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan; and a bencher of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. In 1976 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories where he served from 1976-1981; he held additional appointments as Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory; Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal, NWT; Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal, Nunavut; former Justice of Appeal, Yukon Territory. He was appointed a Justice of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan in 1981, and retired in 2005. Judge Tallis died 14 October 2021 in Regina at age 91.

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