"You Must Learn to See Life Steady and Whole": Ivan Cleveland Rand and Legal Education (Canada‪)‬

IVAN RAND: A MAN AND HIS TIMES To understand properly Ivan Rand's views on legal education, just as to understand properly his jurisprudence, it is critical to appreciate that he was born a Victorian and came of age an Edwardian. He came to national prominence in the Atomic Age--in the middle part of the twentieth century--but he was born in 1884, in the midst of the Mahdi's Rebellion in the Sudan and a year before the Riel Rebellion in the old Red River Territory. His birth took place in the same year that the British Parliament enacted the Third Reform Bill, (1) and only two years after the Married Women's Property Act came into force. (2) Rand was sixteen when Queen Victoria died and, while old enough to have enlisted in the Canadian battalions that fought in the Boer War, he was too old to serve in the First World War. He was thirty years of age when the "Guns of August" started and almost thirty-five when they fell silent in November 1918.