The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers, 1797-1997 / / Christopher Moore.
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today&...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Becoming Learned and Honourable, 1797-1822
- Chapter Two. Lawyers for the Emerging Giant, 1822-1871
- Chapter Three. A New Profession, 1871-1914
- Chapter Four. The Last Patricians, 1914-1950
- Chapter Five. A New Agenda, 1950-1970
- Chapter Six. Questions of Control, 1970-1997
- Appendices
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index