The Honourable Kenneth C. Binks, Q.C., Associate
Kenneth C. Binks was born in Ottawa, Canada, May 19 1925.
His family has lived in the Ottawa area for 125 years, and they have been members of the business and professional community for four generations. He was educated in the public schools of Ottawa. He attended Queen's University, where he graduated with honours in Modern History and completed graduate studies for Master of Arts. He also tutored in the history department.
In 1949, he attended Cambridge University where he studied law; he completed his legal studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He was admitted to the Bar in Saskatchewan in 1953, and in Ontario in 1953. From 1954 to 1956 he was Senior Assistant Crown Attorney for Carleton County (Ottawa). From 1958 to 1988 he was Senior Partner at Binks & Chilcott, a firm specializing in national and international advocacy. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1964. He was National Secretary of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1959 to 1966, and was elected a Member of Parliament for Ottawa West in 1979.
In 1991 he was appointed a judge of the General Division, now Superior Court of the Province of Ontario. In 1998 he was appointed a Member of the Canada Pension Appeals Board. He retired from the Superior Court of Ontario in May 2000 and joined the firm of Beament Green as Counsel.
Judge Binks is the author of Canada's Parliamentary Library, published in 1979, a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the National Press Club, and the Cambridge Union.