14 Facts About Ivan Rand

Ivan Cleveland Rand was a Canadian lawyer, politician, academic, and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Ivan Rand has been described as "probably the greatest judge in Canada's history".

Ivan Rand was called to the bar of New Brunswick in 1912.

Ivan Rand is perhaps best remembered for his judgment in Roncarelli v Duplessis, which has been described as "iconic".

In 1946, he developed the Ivan Rand formula requiring payment of trade union dues by all employees in the bargaining unit affected by a collective agreement, whether or not the employees are members of the union.

Ivan Rand retired from the Canadian Supreme Court on April 27,1959, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

Ivan Rand received honorary degrees from Mount Allison University, the University of New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, Queen's University, the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario and Columbia University.

Ivan Rand was Canada's appointee to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine following World War II.

Ivan Rand became a supporter of the state of Israel once it was created in 1948 and visited in 1959 to dedicate a forest in Jerusalem named in his honour.

Ivan Rand's meeting with William Lovell Hull, a fellow Canadian, changed Ivan Rand's understanding of Zionism.

Ivan Rand became the central and most influential swing vote on UNSCOP in favour of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the eventual creation of the State of Israel.

Ivan Rand has been described as "probably the greatest judge in Canada's history" and "perhaps the greatest exponent of the rule of law in the history of the Supreme Court of Canada".

When his sister married an Acadian, Ivan Rand refused to talk to her for 30 years.

Ivan Rand would complain regularly about people whose names ended with vowels.