John Sissons
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John Howard Sissons was a judge from the Yellowknife area, who was appointed the first NWT Supreme Court Judge in 1955. He made many landmark decisions, and was very fair in his rulings. One intriguing move he made was to hire an Inuit carver to make soapstone carvings of prominent murder cases he presided over throughout the Far North; he was inspired to do this when he ruled in the favour of traditional justice in the case of a young boy, and the boy presented him with a soapstone carving after the trial. These carvings are on display in the present day Yellowknife Court House, and the collection continued to be added to by Justice William Morrow when he took Justice Sissons’ place.
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