Wishart Law
Sault Ste. Marie

About Wishart Law Sault Ste. Marie

Moses and Uriah McFadden set up office at the intersection of Brock and Queen Street.

They practiced together until Moses was appointed to the bench in 1915.

Ernest McMillan, a young lawyer from Prince Edward Island, then joined the firm.

When Uriah McFadden was appointed a judge in 1931, Ernest brought his younger brother, Gordon to the City of Sault Ste. Marie to join him in the practice of law. The firm was known as McMillan and McMillan until 1939, when Arthur Wishart, a New Brunswick-born lawyer, left his practice in Blind River to come to Sault Ste. Marie.

The name of the firm was changed to Wishart and McMillan. By the end of World War II, illness had forced Gordon McMillan to leave the firm. Mr. Wishart recruited two young lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald and Derek Holder. This enabled the firm to accept an appointment as solicitor for the City...