4505 Canterra Tower
400 - 3rd Avenue S.W.
Calgary AB T2P 4H2

Direct Phone: 403.693.4329
Fax: 403.508.4349
Email: tgould@mlt.com

First Nations Law
Administrative Law

Tom Gould was born in Regina but has lived in Calgary since early childhood. Tom spent the majority of his first decade in practice in the areas of expropriation and administrative law. During that time Tom provided legal and litigation services on large land assembly programs for provincial and municipal governments and private land owners. Notable among these projects are the Oldman River Dam, the Pine Coulee and Little Bow reservoir projects, the Calgary and Edmonton transportation and utility corridors, and TransCanada Highway upgrading projects. Tom was also instrumental in establishing the Alberta Expropriation Association (the "AEA"), both as a founding Director and, subsequently, as President. In 1997 Tom organized a comprehensive review of Alberta's Expropriation Act for submission to the Government of Alberta on behalf of the AEA.

In 1995 Tom elected to become a sole practitioner in order to focus his experience in land acquisition and valuation to Aboriginal Law. As counsel to the Indian Claims Commission of Canada Tom drafted a number of decisions on issues such as treaty land entitlement, reserve land surrenders, reserve flooding claims, treaty medical rights, loss of use, expropriation and other claims. Most recently, Tom has acted on behalf of a number of Alberta and Saskatchewan First Nations on treaty rights issues and claims involving surface and mineral surrenders, expropriations, environmental issues, and breaches of fiduciary obligations.

• Admitted to the Alberta Bar
• LL.B. (Calgary, 1985)
• B.A. (Honours, Saskatchewan, 1980)

• Canadian Champion Camrose Lutheran College Vikings hockey team - Member (1974-75)
• Canada West University Athletic Association Champion Calgary Dinosaurs hockey club - Member (1979-80)