actions can be taken as an indica- tion, John Barrett Davidson must have been the youngest 95-year-old practising lawyer in history. Mr. Davidson, the oldest and longest-practising lawyer in Ontario and per- haps in North America, re- tired from his St. Thomas law practice in 1958 at the ripe old age of 95 years. To that point he had sel- dom missed a day of woric at the 386 Talbot Street office he shared with his son, Barrett R. Davidson, and he had never suffered a serious i l - lness in his long life

most of his life, Mr, Paddon is married to the former Lois Tanner and the couple have! three children, ' t � } {add=St. Thomas history teacher provides i° further interpretation of Riel events Wayne Paddon, head of the history department at Arthur Voaden Secondary School and co-author of a secondary school and university text boolc called "Approaches to Teaching Local History has made available further inter- esting information on Louis Riel and the Red River Re- bellion. in a letter to the editor,