About
“He was a mentor,” says Harold (Sonny) Cochrane, who welcomed Sinclair as a partner at hisWinnipeg-based Cochrane Sinclair law firmin 2020.
Education
“He wanted to create change,” says Sheila North,executive director of Indigenous Engagement at the University of Winnipegand former grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak.
executive director of Indigenous Engagement at the University of Winnipeg
Sinclair graduated law school from the University of Manitoba and was later named Manitoba’s first Indigenous judge, where he served in the provincial court.
Patrick Deane, principal (president) of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., knew Sinclair professionally from Winnipeg.
“He told me that he has never agreed to be a chancellor at any university, but he’s been asked plenty of times,” recalled Deane. “But this was one invitation he was of a mind to accept.”