Alan Bernard Gold (July 21, 1917 – May 15, 2005) was the chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1983 to 1992. Born in

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, Gold received a

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from Queen's University in 1938 and a bachelor's degree in civil law from the

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in 1941. He was called to the

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in 1942, but first served with the

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during

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. As an arbitrator, he helped avoid a strike by the longshoremen at the Port of Montreal in 1968. In 1970, he was named chief judge of the Provincial Court of Quebec, now known as the Court of Quebec. In 1990, he negotiated a settlement between the

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government and the

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people in the Oka standoff. In 1993, he negotiated a settlement at Nationair, bringing the 16-month-long

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of its Flight Attendants to an end. In 1993, after he had retired from the bench, he joined Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, a Montréal law firm. He represented the government of

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in negotiating a settlement in the

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. He reviewed the out-of-court settlement between former

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Brian Mulroney and the federal government in Mulroney's anti-defamation suit in the alleged

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. He served as chair of the board of Governors of

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, Chancellor of Concordia University and Associate Governor at the Université de Montréal. He served as Chairman of the Bar of Montreal's committee on access to justice in the

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in the judicial district of Montreal whose Report was submitted on March 31, 1995. Gold was made an Officer of the

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in 1995 and was named a member of the Académie des Grands Montréalais in 1997. In 1985, he was made an Officer of the

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. He died in 2005 at the age of 87. His son,

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, was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2016.

References

Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry
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