Violet King was the first Black woman admitted to the Alberta Bar, and to practice law in Canada. King was born October 18, 1929, in Calgary, Alberta. King's parents arrived in Calgary in 1919. Her father, John, worked as a sleeping car porter with the Canadian Pacific Railway and her mother, Stella, worked as a […]

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