Milt Harradence

Asa Milton "Milt" Harradence (April 23, 1922 – February 28, 2008)[1] was a Canadian criminal lawyer, pilot, politician and judge of the Court of Appeal of Alberta.

[1] It was during his service that he was wrongfully "cashiered" for performing aerobatics with a Bristol Bolingbroke bomber-trainer, "broken" from the RCAF and sent to Alaska as a member of the Canadian Army.

After the war he overturned his "cashiering," had his flying status and honourable record renewed and moved to Calgary, Alberta to practise law.

In 1960 Lynn Garrison, also a pilot with 403 Squadron, obtained the contract to ferry 75 P-51 Mustang aircraft, retired from RCAF service, to their new owners in New York City.

The Lancaster is a permanent display in Calgary as a memorial to those who served with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, during World War Two.

A flamboyant Calgary defence lawyer and war veteran, he defeated Ernest Watkins, the party's sole member of the legislature, at the 1962 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

[3] The target of a number of death threats due to his legal work, he was one of the few people in the country granted a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

In spite of this, one of Trudeau's final acts before leaving office, saw Harradence appointed to the Alberta Court of Appeal[2] in 1979 where he sat as a judge until his retirement in 1997.