Sidney Smith
Sidney Alexander Smith (born 1888 in Banffshire, Scotland; died September 1960) was a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1940 to 1944 and of the British Columbia Court of Appeal from 1944 until his death in 1960. After serving as a Royal Navy mariner in World War I and a lawyer in the interwar period, Smith was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1940 after a failed electoral run for the Liberals in the Vancouver South riding. An expert in marine law, Smith was appointed chair of the Japanese Fishing Vessel Disposal Committee in January 1942 and later served as the chairman of the Greater Vancouver Advisory Committee on Japanese Properties from 1943 to 1945. (Source: Kimura Appendix) - is this the same Smith as above?
Metadata
| RoleName | Justice |
| Surname | Smith |
| Forename | Sidney |
| Regularized Name | Sidney Smith |
Terminology
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