Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon /

Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon / / ed. by Hamar Foster, John McLaren.

This sixth volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the a central theme in the history of British Columbia and the Yukon - law and order. In the early days of British sovereignty, the frenzied activity of the fur trade and the gold rush, along...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Brockman, Joan,
Brown, Russ,
Chunn, Dorothy E.,
Foster, Hamar,
Grove, Alan,
Harris, Burt,
Lambertson, Ross,
Loo, Tina,
Marquis, Greg,
McLaren, John,
McMurtry, R. Roy,
Menzies, Robert,
Oliver, Peter,
Parker, Nancy,
HerausgeberIn:
Foster, Hamar,
McLaren, John ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1995
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Essays in the History of Canadian Law ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (604 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon
  • Part I: Aboriginal People and the Law
  • 2. Letting Go The Bone: The Idea Of Indian Title In British Columbia, 1849–1927
  • 3. ‘Where Is the Justice, Mr Mills?’: A Case Study of R. v. Nantuck
  • 4. Tonto’s Due: Law, Culture, and Colonization in British Columbia
  • Part II: Vice, Crime, and Policing
  • 5. Swift Justice and the Decline of the Criminal Trial Jury: The Dynamics of Law and Authority in Victoria, BC, 1858–1905
  • 6. A Distant Edge of Authority: Capital Punishment and the Prerogative of Mercy in British Columbia, 1872–1880
  • 7. Vancouver Vice: The Police and the Negotiation of Morality, 1904–1935
  • 8. The Making of Criminal Insanity in British Columbia: Granby Farrant and the Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz, 1919–1933
  • Part III: Religion and Education
  • 9. Judgments of Solomon: Law, Doctrine, and the Cridge Controversy of 1872-1874
  • 10. Creating ‘Slaves of Satan’ or ‘New Canadians’? The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911–1935
  • Part IV: Labour and Social Welfare
  • 11. After Union Colliery: Law, Race, And Class in the Coalmines of British Columbia
  • 12. For God, Country, and the Public Purse: ‘Liberal’ Politics and the Campaign for Family Courts in British Columbia, 1939–1945
  • Part V: The Legal Profession
  • 13. Fighting Spirits: The Yukon Legal Profession, 1898–1912
  • 14. Exclusionary Tactics: The History of Women and Visible Minorities in the Legal Profession in British Columbia
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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