Geoffrey Taber, a longtime partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto and leading Canadian technology lawyer, was killed along with his immediate family in a Dec. 24 fire at a remote cottage near Peterborough, Ontario.

Several news outlets up north, including the CBC and Globe and Mail of Toronto, noted Taber’s death following a Christmas Eve blaze that reportedly destroyed a 4,000-square-foot home that he owned near Stoney Lake in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-central Ontario.