Danielle Hargreaves

Danielle Hargreaves is a member of our Criminal Law, Labour and Employment, Civil Litigation, and Indigenous Peoples practice groups.

Danielle received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History from Mount Saint Vincent University in 2012. While at MSVU, she was the President of the History Society and she minored in French. Her Honours thesis, "Moving Mountains: The No. 2 Construction Battalion and African Canadian Experience During the Great War" chronicled the complete history of the No. 2 CB. She received her Master of Arts in History from Brock University in 2014. 

Danielle worked for the Victorian Order of Nurses for nearly a decade in various positions, most recently as a Lean Coach, before returning to school. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law in 2025, along with a Criminal Justice Certificate and an Aboriginal and Indigenous Law Certificate. In her second year at Schulich, she was awarded the Eunice W. Beeson Memorial Award.

While at law school, Danielle worked as a research assistant for Professor Archie Kaiser, in the areas of Criminal Law and Health Law. She was Co-President of the Dalhousie Mature Law Student Society and the Schulich Social Committee. She also volunteered through ProBono Dalhousie with the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. During her third year, she was also Chair of the Law Students Section of the Canadian Bar Association - Nova Scotia Branch and completed a placement with the Dalhousie Legal Aid Service. As a Mi'kmaw woman originally from Newfoundland, the highlight of Danielle's Law School experience was when she participated in the Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Rights Moot at Lakehead University's Bora Laskin Faculty of Law in Thunder Bay, ON.

Danielle has served in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve as an officer in the Cadet Instructor Cadre since 2008 and is currently Commanding Officer of 117 Preston / Westphal Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps in North Preston. This is her second time in command of 117 RCACC, having been the corps' first Mi'kmaw and first female CO from 2015 to 2019. She is a recipient the Commander National Cadet and Junior Canadian Rangers Support Group Commendation (2019) and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (2023). She also speaks regularly at academic historical conferences, having most recently presented research on Miriam DeCosta; author and member of the publishing team behind "The Atlantic Advocate", Atlantic Canada's first known Black Canadian newspaper (1915 - 1917) at Toronto Metropolitan University.

When not working or researching her next writing project, Danielle enjoys making Indigenous beaded jewelry, sewing regalia, singing, playing guitar, reading, and spending time with her spouse and their fur baby.