Alfred William Rooke "Fred" Carrothers (June 1, 1924 – May 4, 1998) was a

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lawyer, arbitrator, and academic working in the field of law. Born in

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, the son of W. A. Carrothers, a professor of economics at the

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, Carrothers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1948 as part of the first graduating class in law at the

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. He received a Master of Laws degree in 1951 from the

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and a Doctorate of Juridical Science in 1966. He was called to the Bars of British Columbia in 1948, of Ontario in 1965, and of Alberta in 1969. He started his career as an academic at the University of British Columbia, where he was a lecturer from 1948 to 1950. He was an assistant professor at

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from 1951 to 1952. In 1952, he joined the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 1955, and a full professor in 1960. From 1960 to 1962, he was also director of the Institute for Industrial Relations. In 1964, he became dean and a professor of law at the

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. Carrothers was President of the

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from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 to 1977, he was the founding president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Canada's oldest non-partisan public policy think tank. He was dean of the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa from 1981 to 1983. In 1965 he was appointed by the government of Canada to head the Advisory Commission on the Development of Government in the Northwest Territories, which became known as the

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. In 1956, while a law professor at University of British Columbia, he wrote ''The Labour Injunction in British Columbia''. He was also the author of ''Labour Arbitration in Canada'' and co-author of ''Collective Bargaining Law in Canada''. Carrothers married Jane Macintosh Boyd in 1961, and they had three children, Matthew, Jonathan and Tasha. He died in

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in 1998 of complications following a stroke.

References

Photo of CarrothersSpeech to the Empire Club of CanadaUniversity of Saskatchewan honorary degree citationCanadian Who's Who 1997 entry
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Alfred W.R. Carrothers fonds
Records in the University of Calgary Archives

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