William Alexander Stevenson OC (May 7, 1934 – July 7, 2021) was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1990 to 1992.
[2] Stevenson worked as counsel on Ponoka-Calmar Oils v Wakefield, the last Canadian ruling rendered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
[2] On September 17, 1990, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada; however, he retired only two years later on June 5, 1992, for health reasons[2] due to a progressive multidegenerative neurological condition.
In remarks to an Alberta Law Review reception in 2018, Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown characterized Stevenson's judgments as "models of uncommonly fine legal writing, characterized by economical, pithy and scrupulous legal analysis.
"[2] Stevenson died in Edmonton on July 7, 2021, after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer a month earlier.