Harry Batshaw (14 October 1902 – 1984) was a Canadian lawyer and a justice of the Quebec Superior Court.
Justice Batshaw was the first Jew to be appointed to a superior court in Canada.
[1] Born in 1902 at Dubroŭna, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus),[2] Batshaw emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1904.
In 1950, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent appointed him to the Quebec Superior Court.
[3] From 1931 to 1934, he was president of Canadian Young Judea, Canada's largest Zionist youth movement.