Horace Harvey

Horace Harvey (October 1, 1863 – September 9, 1949) was a lawyer, jurist, and a Chief Justice of Alberta, Canada.

Harvey was born in Elgin County, Ontario on October 1, 1863, to William Harvey, Liberal Member of Parliament for Elgin East from 1872–1874, and Sophronia (née) Mack.

A Quaker, he married Nora Lousie Palmerin in Ontario in 1893 . Together they had one son, Alan Burnside Harvey, on April 22, 1899. Alan became a Rhodes Scholar, a lawyer, Queen's Counsel, Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, and editor of Tremeear's Annotated Criminal Code, Canada.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1886 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto in 1888. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar the following year and to the Northwest Territories Bar, the predecessor to the Law Society of Alberta in 1893.

Harvey began his career in Calgary, Alberta at the firm of Harvey and McCarthy. In 1896 he was Registrar of Land Titles for Southern Alberta before his appointment as the Deputy Attorney General of the Northwest Territories in 1900, requiring him to move to Regina, Saskatchewan. His first judicial appointment came on June 27, 1904, when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories and stationed in Macleod, Alberta where a new courthouse had been built that year. With the creation of the province in 1905, he moved back to Calgary, and with the creation of the Supreme Court of Alberta in 1907 to which Harvey was appointed on September 16, 1907, he moved to Edmonton.

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