Arming and Disarming : : A History of Gun Control in Canada / / R. Blake Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Brown, R. Blake,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 5 figures

From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since Co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Figures
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. “Every man has a right to the possession of his musket”: Regulating Firearms before Confederation
• 2. “The government must disarm all the Indians”: Controlling Firearms from Confederation to the Late Nineteenth Century
• 3. “A rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man in the Dominion of Canada under proper auspices”: Arming Britons and Disarming Immigrants from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Great War
• 4. “Hysterical legislation”: Suppressing Gun Ownership from the First to the Second World Wars
• 5. Angry White Men: Resistance to Gun Control in Canada, 1946–1980
• 6. Flexing the Liberal State’s Muscles: The Montreal Massacre and the 1995 Firearms Act, 1980–2006
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index