Edsworth Searles was the first Black lawyer called to the bar in BC. Canadian born, of British West Indian parents, Edsworth graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Law. Following his short time in Vancouver, he returned to Toronto. In 1959 he was called to the Ontario bar.
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