Sat Nov 21, 9:34 PM
By The Canadian Press
HAMILTON, Ont. - The Superior Court judge who first tried to order aboriginal protesters to vacate a former housing development in southern Ontario in 2006 has died.
A statement from his family says Justice David Marshall died Friday. He was 70.
Marshall became well known for a number of rulings that came in the tension-filled early days of the First Nations standoff in Caledonia, Ont., in 2006.
Marshall issued an injunction ordering native protesters to leave the former Douglas Creek Estates housing development, an order that was later overturned by a higher court.
Marshall had been a doctor since 1962 and a lawyer since 1972.
He was recently appointed to Colonel Commandant of the Medical Branch of the Canadian Armed Forces, an honorary appointment at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa.
He was never ever able to take up the job.
Marshall is survived by his wife, five children and 10 grandchildren.
He wrote four books on medicine and law and another on the history of Haldimand County.